Enhancing Saga Pattern for Distributed Transactions within a Microservices Architecture

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Abstract

The saga pattern manages transactions and maintains data consistency across distributed microservices via utilizing local sequential transactions that update each service and publish mes-sages to trigger the next ones. Failure by one transaction causes the execution of compensating transactions that counteract the preceding one. However, saga lacks isolation, meaning that reading and writing data from an incomplete transaction is allowed. Therefore, this research proposes an en-hanced saga pattern that resolves the lack of isolation issue via the use of the quota cache and the commit-sync service. Some transactions will be transferred from the database layer to the memory layer. Thus, no wrong commit to the main database will occur. If a microservice fails to be com-pleted, the other microservices will run compensation transactions to rollback the changes that only affect the cache layer instead of the database layer. Database commit will be performed when all transactions are completed successfully. A lightweight microservices-based e-commerce system was implemented for comparison. Experiments were conducted for validation and evaluation. Results demonstrate that the proposal has the capability of resolving the lack of isolation. Results in-dicate that the proposal achieves better performance not only in typical cases but also in the scenario that needs to handle exceptions.

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Daraghmi, E., Zhang, C. P., & Yuan, S. M. (2022). Enhancing Saga Pattern for Distributed Transactions within a Microservices Architecture. Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 12(12). https://doi.org/10.3390/app12126242

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