I come from an academic lineage of log-based projects, from log-structured filesystems [1] which structure disks as a log, to RAMCloud [2][3][4] whose durability/recovery aspects are a distributed and partially in-memory extension of that, to Raft and LogCabin that are built around the concept of a replicated log for consensus.
LogCabin used to export a log-oriented data model, by the way, where the name made a bit more sense even. There was some talk of renaming it to TreeHouse now that it exports a key-value tree, but that one didn't really catch on.
I come from an academic lineage of log-based projects, from log-structured filesystems [1] which structure disks as a log, to RAMCloud [2][3][4] whose durability/recovery aspects are a distributed and partially in-memory extension of that, to Raft and LogCabin that are built around the concept of a replicated log for consensus.
LogCabin used to export a log-oriented data model, by the way, where the name made a bit more sense even. There was some talk of renaming it to TreeHouse now that it exports a key-value tree, but that one didn't really catch on.
[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/lfs.pdf
[2] http://ramcloud.stanford.edu
[3] https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast14/technical-sessions/...
[4] https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/RumblePhd.pd...