
handle: 2078.1/214300
Designers of large user-oriented distributed applications, such as social networks and mobile applications, have adopted measures to improve the responsiveness of their applications. Latency is a major concern as people are very sensitive to it. Geo-replication is a commonly used mechanism to bring the data closer to clients. Nevertheless, reaching the closest datacenter can still be considerably slow. Thus, in order to further reduce the access latency, mobile and web applications may be forced to replicate data at the client-side. Unfortunately, fully replicating large data structures may still be a waste of resources, specially for thin-clients. We propose a replication mechanism built upon conflict-free replicated data types (CRDT) to seamlessly replicate parts of large data structures. The mechanism is transparent to developers and gives improvements without increasing application complexity. We define partial replication and give an approach to keep the strong eventual consistency properties of CRDTs with partial replicas. We integrate our mechanism into SwiftCloud, a transactional system that brings geo-replication to clients. We evaluate the solution with a content-sharing application. Our results show improvements in bandwidth, memory, and latency over both classical geo-replication and the existing SwiftCloud solution.
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