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by Cardinal7167 1136 days ago
But raft isn’t strongly consistent, it has known liveness issues.

https://decentralizedthoughts.github.io/2020-12-12-raft-live...
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eatonphil 1136 days ago
What does strongly consistent have to do with liveness? If there's a connection it seems pretty indirect.
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he0001 1136 days ago
The article you linked to says if you have PreVote and CheckQuorum it then doesn’t have liveness issues.
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kbumsik 1136 days ago
That is about availability in the CAP theorem, not consistency though.
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withinboredom 1136 days ago
Raft is a pretty decent -- not great -- consensus algorithm (IMHO) but it is used because it is easy to understand. If I had to trust one, I would probably go with Multi-Paxos, if you could successfully implement it.
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