WAN

  • Modeling Paxos Performance in Wide Area – Part 3

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    Earlier I looked at modeling paxos performance in local networks, however nowadays people (companies) use paxos and its flavors in the wide area as well. Take Google Spanner and CockroachDB as an example. I was naturally curious to expand my performance model into wide area networks as well. Since our lab worked on WAN coordination…

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  • EPaxos: Consensus with no leader

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    In my previous post I talked about Raft consensus algorithm. Raft has a strong leader which may present some problems under certain circumstances, for example in case of leader failure or when deployed over a wide area network (WAN). Egalitarian Paxos, or EPaxos, discards the notion of a leader and allows each node to be…

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