What algorithms there are for failover in a distributed system?

Question

I\'m planning on making a distributed database system using a shared-nothing architecture and multiversion concurrency control. Redundancy will be achieved through asynchronous

Answer 1

This problem was solved by DEC for VMS with the Distributed Lock Manager. Modern solutions are based on this design. Read the Wikipedia article for some current solutions. You should look at OCFS2, which is now part of the Linux kernel.