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March 7, 2023

Raft – the most popular distributed database consensus algorithm

Concepts of Raft Rules for Safety in the Raft protocol The Raft protocol guarantees the following safety against consensus malfunction by virtue of its design : Raft Alternatives Fault ScenariosQ: What happens when one of the nodes have network issues for extended amount of time? A: Assuming a majority consensus consistency is still able to commit…

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#architectures, #cockroach-db, #kafka, #raft
January 6, 2023

Postgresql -> Cockroach DB

Context: Options for Horizontally scalable databases (to be performant as datasize becomes larger) Decided at the time that Cockroach DB was the best solution. Migration steps required Rewriting incompatible SQL code Load testing Migration When to use CockroachDB? Who uses CockroachDB? Special mentions: Ref:

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#cockroach-db, #postgresql, #storj-labs