Replication

[marceloboeira]

We have to dive into replication and evaluate libraries/algorithms that make sense for voik.

Some reddit community feedback involved Raft, Paxos and PARSEC.

At first glance my idea was Raft, since I think Paxos is a bit overkill, but I still have to look into PARSEC to figure it out.

Acceptance criteria

Come up with tradeoffs of each choice and make a group decision.

[marceloboeira]

Interesting: https://github.com/frugalos/raftlog

[jaywalker76]

Hi @marceloboeira. I'm going to have a look at the protocols, and should be able to provide some help regarding this item.

[marceloboeira]

@jaywalker76 great! Thanks! 😀

I think the tidb team have a raft implementation in rust

[alis93]

Just doing some reading up on these consensus algorithms and thought this video might be a useful intro to raft (and a little bit of paxos)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=Hm_m4MIXn9Q

[marceloboeira]

@alis93 nice! I'll watch it and investigate a bit more. Raft seems like the way to go, but I haven't evaluated PARSEC.