04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Distributed Database Systems

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04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems In a homogeneous distributed database  All sites have identical software  Are aware of each other and agree to cooperate in processing user requests.  Each site surrenders part of its autonomy in terms of right to change schemas or software  Appears to user as a single system In a heterogeneous distributed database  Different sites may use different schemas and software Difference in schema is a major problem for query processing Difference in software is a major problem for transaction processing  Sites may not be aware of each other and may provide only limited facilities for cooperation in transaction processing

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Assume relational data model Replication  System maintains multiple copies of data, stored in different sites, for faster retrieval and fault tolerance. Fragmentation  Relation is partitioned into several fragments stored in distinct sites Replication and fragmentation can be combined  Relation is partitioned into several fragments: system maintains several identical replicas of each such fragment.

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Data Fragmentation Horizontal fragmentation: each tuple of r is assigned to one or more fragments Vertical fragmentation: the schema for relation r is split into several smaller schemas  All schemas must contain a common candidate key (or superkey) to ensure lossless join property.  A special attribute, the tuple-id attribute may be added to each schema to serve as a candidate key. Example : relation account with following schema Account-schema = (branch-name, account-number, balance)

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Horizontal Fragmentation of account Relation branch-nameaccount-numberbalance Hillside A-305 A-226 A account 1 =  branch-name=“Hillside” (account) branch-nameaccount-numberbalance Valleyview A-177 A-402 A-408 A account 2 =  branch-name=“Valleyview” (account)

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Vertical Fragmentation of employee-info Relation branch-name customer-name tuple-id Hillside Valleyview Hillside Valleyview Lowman Camp Kahn Green deposit 1 =  branch-name, customer-name, tuple-id (employee-info) account number balance tuple-id A-305 A-226 A-177 A-402 A-155 A-408 A-639 deposit 2 =  account-number, balance, tuple-id (employee-info)

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Data Transparency Data transparency: Degree to which system user may remain unaware of the details of how and where the data items are stored in a distributed system

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Naming of Data Items - Criteria 1. Every data item must have a system-wide unique name. 2. It should be possible to find the location of data items efficiently. 3. It should be possible to change the location of data items transparently. 4. Each site should be able to create new data items autonomously.

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Centralized Scheme - Name Server Structure:  name server assigns all names  each site maintains a record of local data items  sites ask name server to locate non-local data items Advantages:  satisfies naming criteria 1-3 Disadvantages:  does not satisfy naming criterion 4  name server is a potential performance bottleneck  name server is a single point of failure

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Use of Aliases Alternative to centralized scheme: each site prefixes its own site identifier to any name that it generates i.e., site 17.account.  Fulfills having a unique identifier, and avoids problems associated with central control.  However, fails to achieve network transparency. Solution: Create a set of aliases for data items; Store the mapping of aliases to the real names at each site. The user can be unaware of the physical location of a data item, and is unaffected if the data item is moved from one site to another.

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Distributed Transactions Transaction may access data at several sites. Each site has a local transaction manager responsible for:  Maintaining a log for recovery purposes  Participating in coordinating the concurrent execution of the transactions executing at that site. Each site has a transaction coordinator, which is responsible for:  Starting the execution of transactions that originate at the site.  Distributing subtransactions at appropriate sites for execution.  Coordinating the termination of each transaction that originates at the site, which may result in the transaction being committed at all sites or aborted at all sites.

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Two Phase Commit … … … … … prepare T ready T commit T abort?

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Handling Failures Participating site goes wrong Coordinator goes wrong Message lost Network partition

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Participating Site Goes Wrong … … … … … prepare T ready T abort T failure

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Participating Site Goes Wrong … … … … … prepare T ready T commit T failure ready T

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Coordinator Fails … … … … … prepare T ready T commit T failure ??? T? abort?

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Coordinator Fails If no commit has been sent out, participating sites will keep asking while holding resources

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Message Lost … … … … … prepare T ready T commit T

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Network Partition Coordinator and participation sites in the same partition Coordinator and participation sites in different partitions

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Persistent Messages Notion of a single transaction spanning multiple sites is inappropriate for many applications  E.g. transaction crossing an organizational boundary  No organization would like to permit an externally initiated transaction to block local transactions for an indeterminate period Persistent messaging systems are systems that provide transactional properties to messages Messages are guaranteed to be delivered exactly once Will discuss implementation techniques later

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Fund Transfer (2PC) A: B: 100 ??? Blocking problem!

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Fund Transfer (Persistent Message) A: B: 100 Persistent Message H Once transaction sending a message is committed, message must guaranteed to be delivered H Guarantee as long as destination site is up and reachable, code to handle undeliverable messages must also be available e.g. credit money back to source account.

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Implementation of Persistent Messaging Sending site protocol 1. Sending transaction writes message to a special relation messages-to- send. The message is also given a unique identifier. H Writing to this relation is treated as any other update, and is undone if the transaction aborts. H The message remains locked until the sending transaction commits 2. A message delivery process monitors the messages-to-send relation H When a new message is found, the message is sent to its destination H When an acknowledgment is received from a destination, the message is deleted from messages-to-send H If no acknowledgment is received after a timeout period, the message is resent H This is repeated until the message gets deleted on receipt of acknowledgement, or the system decides the message is undeliverable after trying for a very long time

04/18/2005Yan Huang - CSCI5330 Database Implementation – Distributed Database Systems Implementation of Persistent Messaging Receiving site protocol  When a message is received 1. it is written to a received-messages relation if it is not already present (the message id is used for this check). The transaction performing the write is committed 2. An acknowledgement (with message id) is then sent to the sending site. 4 There may be very long delays in message delivery coupled with repeated messages