@inproceedings{gray1996the,
author = {Gray, Jim and Helland, Pat and O'Neil, Patrick and Shasha, Dennis},
title = {The Dangers of Replication and a Solution},
year = {1996},
month = {January},
abstract = {Update anywhere-anytime-anyway transactional replication has unstable behavior as the workload scales up: a ten-fold increase in nodes and traffic gives a thousand fold increase in deadlocks or reconciliations. Master copy replication (primary copy) schemes reduce this problem. A simple analytic model demonstrates these results. A new two-tier replication algorithm is proposed that allows mobile (disconnected) applications to propose tentative update transactions that are later applied to a master copy. Commutative update transactions avoid the instability of other replication schemes.},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/the-dangers-of-replication-and-a-solution/},
}