Consensus Inwards The Cloud: Paxos Systems Demystified

This our nigh recent paper, nevertheless nether submission. It is available equally a technical study here. We felt nosotros had to write this newspaper because nosotros bring seen misuses/abuses of Paxos-based coordination services. Glad this is off our chests.

Here is the brusk pitch for the paper. I promise you lot similar it together with notice it helpful.

Coordination together with consensus play an of import part inwards datacenter together with cloud computing. Examples are leader election, grouping membership, cluster management, service discovery, resource/access management, together with consistent replication of the master copy nodes inwards services.

Paxos protocols together with systems render a fault-tolerant solution to the distributed consensus work together with bring attracted pregnant attending precisely they likewise  generated substantial confusion. Zab, Multi-Paxos, Raft are examples of Paxos protocols.  ZooKeeper, Chubby, etcd are examples of Paxos systems. Paxos systems together with Paxos protocols reside inwards dissimilar planes, precisely fifty-fifty that doesn't forbid these 2 concepts to live on confused. Paxos protocols are useful for low-level components for server replication, whereas Paxos systems bring been oft shoehorned to that task. The proper locomote instance for Paxos systems is inwards highly-available/durable metadata management, nether the weather condition that all metadata friction match inwards main-memory together with are non champaign of study to frequent changes.

In social club to elucidate the right locomote of distributed coordination systems, nosotros compare together with contrast pop Paxos protocols together with Paxos systems together with acquaint advantages together with disadvantages for each. Zab together with Raft protocols differ from Paxos equally they separate execution into epochs: Each epoch begins amongst a novel election, goes into the broadcast stage together with ends amongst a leader failure. Similarly, Paxos systems likewise bring nuances. Chubby uses the MultiPaxos algorithm to laissez passer on linearizability, piece Zab lies at the view of ZooKeeper together with provides non solely linearizability, precisely likewise FIFO social club for customer requests, enabling the developers to gear upward complex coordination primitives amongst ease. Etcd organization uses Raft equally the consensus protocol, together with adopts a stateless pattern together with implements sure enough features rattling differently than ZooKeeper together with Chubby.

We likewise categorize the coordination use-patterns inwards cloud into ix wide categories: server replication (SR), log replication (LR), synchronization service (SS), barrier orchestration (BO), service uncovering (SD), grouping membership (GM), leader election (LE), metadata management (MM) together with distributed queues (Q). Using these categories, nosotros seek Google together with Facebook infrastructures, equally good equally Apache top-level projects to investigate how they locomote Paxos protocols together with systems.


Finally, nosotros analyze tradeoffs inwards the distributed coordination domain together with position promising time to come directions for achieving to a greater extent than scalable distributed coordination systems.

See the newspaper for to a greater extent than information.

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Paper summary: ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems

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