Three Phase Commit (3PC) protocol in distributed database failure recovery
Three Phase Commit (3PC) Protocol
Two Phase Commit (2PC) is one of the failure recovery
protocols commonly used in distributed database management system. It has a
disadvantage of getting blocked under certain circumstances. For example, assume
a case where the coordinator of a particular transaction is failed, and the
participating sites have all sent <READY T> message to the coordinator. Now,
participating sites do not have either <ABORT T> or <COMMIT T>. At
this stage, no site can take a final decision on its own. Only solution is to
wait for the recovery of the coordinator site. Hence, 2PC is a blockingprotocol.
3PC is a protocol that eliminates this blocking problem on certain basic requirements;
- No network partitioning
- At least one site must be available
- At most K simultaneous site failures are accepted
2PC has two phases namely voting phase and decision
phase. 3PC introduces pre-commit
phase (serves as a buffer phase) as the third phase. 3PC works as follows;
Phase 1 (WAIT/VOTING):
Transaction Coordinator (TC) of the transaction writes
BEGIN_COMMIT message in its log file and sends PREPARE message to all the
participating sites and waits.
Upon receiving this message, if a site is ready to commit, then the site’s transaction manager
(TM) writes READY in its log and send VOTE_COMMIT to TC.
If any site is not
ready to commit,
it writes ABORT in its log and responds with VOTE_ABORT to the TC.
Phase 2
(PRE-COMMIT):
If TC
received VOTE_COMMIT from all the participating sites, then it writes
PREPARE_TO_COMMIT in its log and sends PREPARE_TO_COMMIT message to all the
participating sites.
On the other hand, if TC receives any one VOTE_ABORT message, it
writes ABORT in its log and sends GLOBAL_ABORT to all the participating sites
and also writes END_OF_TRANSACTION
message in its log.
On receiving the message PREPARE_TO_COMMIT, the TM of
participating sites write PREPARE_TO_COMMIT in their log and respond with
READY_TO_COMMIT message to the TC.
If they
receive GLOBAL_ABORT message, then TM of the sites write ABORT in their
logs and acknowledge the abort. Also, they abort that particular transaction
locally.
Phase 3
(COMMIT/DECIDING):
If all
responses are READY_TO_COMMIT, then TC writes COMMIT in its log and send
GLOBAL_COMMIT message to all the participating sites’ TMs. The TM of those sites
then writes COMMIT in their log and sends an acknowledgement to the TC. Then,
TC writes END_OF_TRANSACTION
in its log.
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