Paxos Made Live: An Engineering Perspective

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Tushar D. Chandra, Robert Griesemer, Joshua Redstone
26th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2007), pp. 398–407
ACM, New York, NY, USA
2007

We describe our experience in building a fault-tolerant data-base using the Paxos consensus algorithm. Despite the existing literature in the field, building such a database proved to be non-trivial. We describe selected algorithmic and engineering problems encountered, and the solutions we found for them. Our measurements indicate that we have built a competitive system.

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