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Raft – the most popular distributed database consensus algorithm
etcd CockroachDB TiKV InFluxDB Consul HashiCorp Kafka Dgraph It may be worthwhile to look into Raft as some of these databases are able to claim fault tolerance, high availability due to using Raft. It is also worthwhile to see the short comings of Raft as the system can go into error state if there are…
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Postgresql -> Cockroach DB
Context: This story comes comes from Storj Labs, a storage provider that boasts resiliency of storage objects and high performance Storj Labs wants to move from Postgresql to CockroachDB. Postgresql is a production grade ACID compliant relational DB that can fit into many use cases such as OLAP, OLTP, GIS, Events Processing. Cockroach DB is…