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Discuss the master/slave type of ownership model in replication

Discuss the master/slave type of ownership model in replication

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KELVIN
With master/slave ownership, asynchronously replicated data is owned by one site, the master or primary site, and can be updated by only that site. Using a ‘publish-and-subscribe’ metaphor, the master site (the publisher) makes data available. Other sites ‘subscribe’ to the data owned by the master site, which means that they receive read-only copies on their local systems. Potentially, each site can be the master site for non-overlapping data sets. However, there can only ever be one site that can update the master copy of a particular data set, and so update conflicts cannot occur between sites.
A master site may own the data in an entire table, in which case other sites subscribe to read-only copies of that table. Alternatively, multiple sites may own distinct fragments of the table, and other sites then subscribe to read-only copies of the fragments. This type of replication is also known as asymmetric replication.
kalvinspartan answered the question on July 4, 2018 at 16:42

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