Fast follower recovery for state machine replication

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Abstract

The method of state machine replication, adopting a single strong Leader, has been widely used in the modern cluster-based database systems. In practical applications, the recovery speed has a significant impact on the availability of the systems. However, in order to guarantee the data consistency, the existing Follower recovery protocols in Paxos replication (e.g., Raft) need multiple network trips or extra data transmission, which may increase the recovery time. In this paper, we propose the Follower Recovery using Special mark log entry (FRS) algorithm. FRS is more robust and resilient to Follower failure and it only needs one network round trip to fetch the least number of log entries. This approach is implemented in the open source database system OceanBase. We experimentally show that the system adopting FRS has a good performance in terms of recovery time.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWeb and Big Data - 1st International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2017, Proceedings
EditorsCyrus Shahabi, Xiang Lian, Christian S. Jensen, Xiaochun Yang, Lei Chen
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages311-319
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783319635781
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event1st Asia-Pacific Web and Web-Age Information Management Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM 2017 - Beijing, China
Duration: 7 Jul 20179 Jul 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10366 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st Asia-Pacific Web and Web-Age Information Management Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period7/07/179/07/17

Keywords

  • Follower recovery
  • Raft
  • State machine replication

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