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Leader Election Using NewSQL Database Systems
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
RISE, Swedish ICT, SICS.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0571-1197
RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden (2017-2019), ICT, SICS. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9484-6714
2015 (English)In: Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, Springer , 2015, 16, Vol. 9038, p. 158-172Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Leader election protocols are a fundamental building block for replicated distributed services. They ease the design of leader-based coordination protocols that tolerate failures. In partially synchronous systems, designing a leader election algorithm, that does not permit multiple leaders while the system is unstable, is a complex task. As a result many production systems use third-party distributed coordination services, such as ZooKeeper and Chubby, to provide a reliable leader election service. However, adding a third-party service such as ZooKeeper to a distributed system incurs additional operational costs and complexity. ZooKeeper instances must be kept running on at least three machines to ensure its high availability. In this paper, we present a novel leader election protocol using NewSQL databases for partially synchronous systems, that ensures at most one leader at any given time. The leader election protocol uses the database as distributed shared memory. Our work enables distributed systems that already use NewSQL databases to save the operational overhead of managing an additional third-party service for leader election. Our main contribution is the design, implementation and validation of a practical leader election algorithm, based on NewSQL databases, that has performance comparable to a leader election implementation using a state-of-the-art distributed coordination service, ZooKeeper.

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Springer , 2015, 16. Vol. 9038, p. 158-172
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), ISSN 0302-9743, E-ISSN 1611-3349 ; 9038
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Computer and Information Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-24414DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19129-4_13Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84937458428ISBN: 978-3-319-19128-7 (print)ISBN: 978-3-319-19129-4 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-24414DiVA, id: diva2:1043495
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15th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2015), June 2-4, 2015, Grenoble, France
Available from: 2016-10-31 Created: 2016-10-31 Last updated: 2023-05-22Bibliographically approved

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