Abstract

This document reports on the work that has been performed on the evaluation, selection and development of strong consistent, group based, database replication protocols suited for wide-area settings. We chose to select two protocols addressing different requirements: the Database State Machine protocol ensuring Snapshot-Isolation consistency and a novel protocol, WICE, for interconnected clusters aimed at providing disaster recovery guarantees ensuring 1-copy-equivalence. This report presents both protocols in detail.

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