Asymmetric-Partition Replication for Highly Scalable Distributed Transaction Processing in Practice Juchang Lee Hyejeong Lee Seongyun Ko SAP Labs Korea SAP Labs Korea POSTECH
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[email protected] ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION Database replication is widely known and used for high Database replication is one of the most widely studied and availability or load balancing in many practical database used techniques in the database area. It has two major use systems. In this paper, we show how a replication engine cases: 1) achieving a higher degree of system availability and can be used for three important practical cases that have 2) achieving better scalability by distributing the incoming not previously been studied very well. The three practi- workloads to the multiple replicas. With geographically dis- cal use cases include: 1) scaling out OLTP/OLAP-mixed tributed replicas, replication can also help reduce the query workloads with partitioned replicas, 2) efficiently maintain- latency when it accesses a local replica. ing a distributed secondary index for a partitioned table, and Beyond those well-known use cases, this paper shows how 3) efficiently implementing an online re-partitioning opera- an advanced replication engine can serve three other prac- tion. All three use cases are crucial for enabling a high- tical use cases that have not been studied very well.