CS223 Project (SOLVED)

CS223 Project Description
Introduction
In this project you will implement data replication of transactions on top of PostgreSQL.
Data is replicated to 3 copies/servers. Each of the nodes will be running a PostgreSQL
server along with an agent. You can mimic a replicated system by creating multiple
PostgreSQL servers (with different data directory) and agent instances on your
machine.
Let us consider an example to illustrate how transactions will run. The replication
system has a leader (one of the three copies) and followers (the other two copies). A
client makes a connection to the leader to send transactions. The client processes
transactions in an optimistic concurrency control way. It sends read operations to the
leader and buffers write operations. Once the transaction completes processing, then
the client sends a COMMIT request that includes both the read and write sets.
The leader receives two types of requests from clients. A READ request is processed
by returning the most recently committed value of the requested data object. A COMMIT
request is processed by check whether the transaction can commit or not. If the
transaction cannot commit, then an ABORT message is sent back to the client and the
transaction is discarded. Otherwise, the transaction COMMITs by applying its writes to
the database, responding to the client with a COMMIT decision, and appending the
transaction’s write-set to the “Replication Log”.
After a transaction commits, the leader sends the corresponding entry in the Replication
Log to the followers so that they can append the entry to their logs as well (the entry
should be at the same log position in all nodes) and apply the write-sets to their
databases.
In addition to the basic design above, extend the prototype with two features (1)
read-only transactions, and (2) leader replacement.
(1) Read-Only Transactions
Extend the agent at nodes to enable performing a read-only transaction at any node
(including a secondary node) while maintaining conflict serializability.
- Describe the algorithm to process read-only transactions.
- Prove that conflict serializability is maintained.
(2) Leader replacement
Extend the agents to be able to tolerate the case of a leader failure. If a leader node
fails, then you should be able to replace the leader with a new node. This includes
making the new node recover the state by asking the other nodes for information about
transactions and the Replication Log.
Important Notes:
● The leader in your case is fixed to be the node which submits the inserts to other
nodes.
● You do not need to change any of the PostgreSQL’s code and the protocol
implementation should be done as a layer running on top of the PostgreSQL
servers.
● In order to test failure scenarios, you only need to mark a node agent as failed.
I.e. it stops sending and receiving messages.
Deliverables
Submit on canvas, a zipped file containing code, report and README file with the
steps to compile and run your code. README should clearly mention if any third party
software that is required to be installed. The report should be of 2-3 pages and should
mention the design of your code and answers the questions in this document.