Paxos vs Raft
Discussions compare Paxos and Raft consensus algorithms, debating their understandability, superiority, implementations in systems like etcd, and trade-offs in distributed systems.
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Why are Paxos and/or Raft considered superior for distributed systems?
Says they are using Raft: https://raft.github.io/
I'm surprised the raft paper has not been mentioned and I'm happy to share it.In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithmhttps://raft.github.io/raft.pdfI think raft has stood the test of time so far. A very popular implementation of raft is etcd, which is used as Kubernetes' backing store for all cluster data.[0][0] <a href="https://kubernetes.io/doc
Implement Raft and compare that too?
looks like a new generation is ready to discover Paxos, Zab, Raft
Has anyone done the same for raft consensus?
Why teach Paxos and not raft. I thought raft was easier to grasp, and is used a lot nowadays?.
Raft is an opinionated version of Paxos, they aren't fundamentally super different
there are more ways to achieve consensus than raft
a single redis instance has better consistency + partition tolerance than any raft implementation