Data Synchronisation in distributed systems

Martin P

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Oct 12, 2003, 2:36:07 PM10/12/03

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Hello,

I´m going to write my diploma thesis about data synchronisation in
distributed systems.

Now I am searching for good literature, technical and scientific articles
etc. about this topic.

I´ve asked google for that and found a lot, but most of it was not really
about data synchronisation.

If anybody has good sources about that please let me know.

Thanks a lot,

bye,

Martin

David C DiNucci

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Oct 12, 2003, 11:13:04 PM10/12/03

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Martin P wrote:
> I´ve asked google for that and found a lot, but most of it was not really
> about data synchronisation.

If google thinks "data synchronisation" means something different than
you think it means, then it's probably a safe guess that there are some
people on this group who will have the same problem.

So, what do you mean by the term? I suppose it generally refers to two
separate entities having the same view of some data at a given point in
time, but that's rather broad. Are you talking about synchronizing data
structures (e.g. calendars) between a PDA or wireless device and some
larger host? Distributed consistency? Something else?

Thanks,
-- Dave
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Martin P

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Oct 13, 2003, 10:58:26 AM10/13/03

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Hello Dave,

>> I´ve asked google for that and found a lot, but most of it was not really
>> about data synchronisation.

>If google thinks "data synchronisation" means something different than
>you think it means, then it's probably a safe guess that there are some
>people on this group who will have the same problem.

>So, what do you mean by the term?

I thought about synchronising documents (XML-Documents f.e.) in a massive
distributed system.
For example 1000 different people on different machines write something in a
txt file placed
on every single machine.

What I want to do now is to synchronize all of these txt-files to one single
big (maybe compressed) file.

My main topics are:
a) the data synchronisation itself
b) the massive distribution with many peers/ clients

Bye,
Martin

Benno Overeinder

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Oct 16, 2003, 11:09:10 AM10/16/03

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Hi,

In article <bmeehr$lhhen$1...@ID-108519.news.uni-berlin.de>, Martin P wrote:
> I thought about synchronising documents (XML-Documents f.e.) in a massive
> distributed system.
> For example 1000 different people on different machines write something in a
> txt file placed
> on every single machine.
>
> What I want to do now is to synchronize all of these txt-files to one single
> big (maybe compressed) file.
>
> My main topics are:
> a) the data synchronisation itself
> b) the massive distribution with many peers/ clients

You might want to take a look at Globe (www.cs.vu.nl/globe).

Globe support replication and distribution of objects (replicates are
copies and distribution implies that parts of the object are physically
placed on different geographical locations). The Globe system takes
care of synchronization/update of replicates and distribution of objects.

Bye,

-- Benno

Ivan Boldyrev

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Oct 18, 2003, 2:37:09 AM10/18/03

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On 8530 day of my life Martin P. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I´m going to write my diploma thesis about data synchronisation in
> distributed systems.
>
> Now I am searching for good literature, technical and scientific articles
> etc. about this topic.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Maarten van Steen. Distributed Systems.
Principles and Paradigms. Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN 0-13-088893-1

(I have Russian translation.)

> I´ve asked google for that and found a lot, but most of it was not really
> about data synchronisation.

Try also CiteSeer: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com

--
Ivan Boldyrev

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