Blind Write Protocol Throughput

Abstract

Blind Write Protocol allows more transactions to be executed at the same time. It is achieved by removing the locking phase to any entity while the write operation is performed. To have a fair throughput comparison with the Locking Protocol then this paper introduces three different approaches using Blind Write Protocol that can preserve consistency. The throughputs are presented and compared with Locking Protocol. We found that preserving consistency using Blind Write Protocol needs more operations. As a result, it consumes more resources and makes the response times much slower compared to Locking Protocol. If Blind Write Protocol ignores consistency, then it shows better response time compared to Locking Protocol. The Blind Write Protocol aims to achieve availability rather than consistency.