[infinispan-dev] New partial replication protocol providing serializability guarantees in Infinispan

Manik Surtani manik at jboss.org
Sun Dec 18 16:44:37 EST 2011


Yup.  :)

On 10 Dec 2011, at 21:12, Paolo Romano wrote:

> On 12/10/11 11:46 AM, Sebastiano Peluso wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Manik, 
>> 
>> in order to provide correct answers to your questions, I want to ask you the following:
>> 
>>  - Why do you say that the current MVCC implementation is non-genuine? I think that for any transaction T, only the sites that replicate the data items read/written by T exchange messages during the execution of T and in order to decide the final outcome of T. Is it correct?
> 
> It's an overloading of the meaning of the word genuine. 
> 
> In the paper we referred to the meaning of genuine as of in the context of partial replication protocols: the algorithm only involves nodes that maintain data accessed in the tx. 
> 
> I think Manik is referring to the fact that ISPN's MVCC implementation does not guarantee serializability.
> 
>     P
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