“…Most of partial replication protocols [37,6] are certification-based and hold Properties P1 and P4 at the sites where there exists a copy of the database partition and, thus, generate 1GSI-schedules. On the other hand, there exists a family of protocols that uses some heuristics, statistics and graph partitioning algorithms, to minimize the number of transactions to be executed in different replicas with the analysis of the workloads [10,25]. Hence, if we obtain a perfect partitioning (i.e., each transaction only accesses one partition) for a given application, it is naturally satisfied that Properties P5 and P6 hold.…”