GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED CLUSTERS

摘要

A method for mirroring data between a plurality of sites comprises: maintaining, at a first site of the plurality of sites, a record that identifies which transactions that have been executed at the first site have had their redo information replicated to the other sites of the plurality of sites; determining a priority value associated with a transaction that is to be performed at the first site, wherein the transaction specifies a modification to a data block; if the priority value is a first value in a set of possible values, then committing the transaction only after the record indicates that redo information associated with the transaction has been replicated to the other sites of the plurality of sites; and if the priority value is a second value in said set of possible values, then committing the transaction even though the record does not indicate that redo information associated with the transaction has been replicated to the other sites of the plurality of sites. The invention also comprises a machine-readable medium.