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Synchronizing a database to improve freshness

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In this paper we study how to refresh a local copy of an autonomous data source to maintain the copy up-to-date. As the size of the data grows, it becomes more difficult to maintain the copy \ fresh, “making it crucial to synchronize the copy effectively. We define two freshness metrics, change models of the underlying data, and synchronization policies. We analytically study how effective the various policies are. We also experimentally verify our analysis, based on data collected from 270 web sites for more than 4 months, and we show that our new policy improves the \ freshness” very significantly compared to current policies in use.

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    SIGMOD '00: Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
    May 2000
    604 pages
    ISBN:1581132174
    DOI:10.1145/342009
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