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Online, asynchronous schema change in F1
2013
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
We introduce a protocol for schema evolution in a globally distributed database management system with shared data, stateless servers, and no global membership. Our protocol is asynchronous-it allows different servers in the database system to transition to a new schema at different times-and online-all servers can access and update all data during a schema change. We provide a formal model for determining the correctness of schema changes under these conditions, and we demonstrate that many
doi:10.14778/2536222.2536230
fatcat:bblikdhjzjcyvk3do2z2gl6p2q