“…If one of the replicas is unavailable, then an update transaction cannot be terminated. Voting in general allow writes to be recorded only at a subset (a write quorum) of the up sites, so long as reads are made to query a subset (a read quorum) that is guaranteed to overlap the write quorum (Helal, Heddaya, & Bhargava, 1996;Noraziah, Deris, Ahmed, Saman, Norhayati, & Alfawaer, 2007). However, this technique causes the communication cost for read operation is fairly expensive.…”