There is a growing interest in asynchronous replica
management protocols in which database transactions are executed locally,
and their effects are incorporated asynchronously on remote database copies.
In this paper we investigate an epidemic update protocol that guarantees
consistency and serializability in spite of a write-anywhere capability
and conduct simulation experiments to evaluate this protocol.
Our results indicate that this epidemic approach is indeed a viable alternative
to eager update protocols for a distributed database environment
where serializability is needed.