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Photon: Fault-tolerant and Scalable Joining of Continuous Data Streams

Abstract A geographically distributed system for joining multiple continuously flowing streams of data in real-time with high scalability and low … More

fault tolerance, paxos, stream processing

In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm

Abstract – Raft is a consensus algorithm for managing a replicated log. It produces a result equivalent to Paxos, and … More

consensus, paxos

Using Paxos to Build a Scalable, Consistent, and Highly Available Datastore

Spinnaker is an experimental datastore that is designed to run on a large cluster of commodity servers in a single … More

high availability, paxos

Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services

Megastore is a storage system developed to meet the requirements of today’s interactive online services. Megastore blends the scalability of … More

distributed database, nosql, paxos

Paxos Made Live – An Engineering Perspective

We describe our experience building a fault-tolerant data-base using the Paxos consensus algorithm. Despite the existing literature in the field, … More

fault tolerance, paxos
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