An Understandable Consensus Algorithm

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In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (Extended Version) Diego Ongaro and John Ousterhout Stanford University Abstract state space reduction (relative to Paxos, Raft reduces the Raft is a consensus algorithm for managing a replicated degree of nondeterminism and the ways servers can be in- log. It produces a result equivalent to (multi-)Paxos, and…

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