Top "Paxos" questions

Paxos is a family of protocols for a network of unreliable processors to agree on a result.

paxos vs raft for leader election

After reading paxos and raft paper, I have following confusion: paxos paper only describe consensus on single log entry, which …

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Paxos vs two phase commit

I am trying to understand the difference between paxos and two phase commit as means to reach consensus among multiple …

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Differences between OT and CRDT

Can someone explain me simply the main differences between Operational Transform and CRDT? As far as I understand, both are …

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Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDT) vs Paxos or Raft

When is it a good idea to use something like CRDT instead of paxos or raft?

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When to use Paxos (real practical use cases)?

Could someone give me a list of real use cases of Paxos. That is real problems that require consensus as …

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Whats the difference between Paxos and W+R>=N in Cassandra?

Dynamo-like databases (e.g. Cassandra) can enforce consistency by means of quorum, i.e. a number of synchronously written replicas (…

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