Linearizable Quorum Reads Inwards Paxos

While in that place has been a lot of piece of work on Paxos protocols, in that place has non been whatever written report that considers the read functioning inward Paxos protocols thoroughly. Read operations attain non mutate state, together with inward many applications the read operations outnumber the update operations.

Traditionally, in that place own got been iii top dog ways to perform reads.
  1. Treat the read every bit a regular command, allow the leader clear it amongst a quorum, together with render the response
  2. Use a lease on the leader (to foreclose unopen to other leader emerging together with committing an update), together with read from the leader
  3. Read from 1 of the replicas
The starting fourth dimension 2 approaches supply linearizable reads, only the lastly method is non-linearizable. For example, inward ZooKeeper or Raft if you lot read from a replica, it returns stale values, because the leader commits first---after hearing from a quorum of replicas--- together with the replicas follow behind. (Linearizability way that the distributed organisation emulates a unmarried register where each customer tin read or write from that register. Each functioning appears to own got occurred instantaneously betwixt the fourth dimension when it is invoked together with the fourth dimension when it produces a response.)

While the starting fourth dimension 2 approaches supply linearizable reads, they both involve the leader for read operations. However, the leader is already overwhelmed amongst write operations: for each write it is doing disproportionately large work. Involving the leader amongst the reads magnifies the bottleneck at the leader.

Paxos Quorum Reads

To solve this employment together with supply linearizable reads inward Paxos without involving the leader, nosotros (Aleksey Charapko, Ailidani Ailijiang, together with Murat Demirbas) own got introduced Paxos Quorum Reads (PQR) inward a recent work. PQR tin piece of work inward an asynchronous setup without requiring leases or involving the leader.

A customer multicasts the quorum-read asking to a bulk quorum of replicas together with waits for their replies. Each respond message contains iii fields, the highest accepted slot position out $s$, the highest applied slot position out $\underline{s}$, together with the value $v$ of the object requested. (There are 4 possible states of a slot: empty, accepted $v$, committed $\hat{v}$, together with applied $\underline{v}$.)

We say that a read is clean if a quorum of replicas render the same slot position out for $s$ together with $\underline{s}$ for which the requested information particular is lastly updated. In this case, a quorum read is successful together with the learned value tin live returned immediately. Intuitively, a create clean read way it non possible for the leader to own got a higher committed value $\hat{s}$ than whatever of the replicas.

Note that it is possible for unopen to replicas to render $s=\underline{s}=x$ together with unopen to replicas to render $s=\underline{s}=x+k$. This is all the same a create clean read, together with the customer uses $s=x+k$, the higher value, every bit the create clean read value. This read is clean, because it is impossible for the leader to own got $\hat{s}$ greater than $s=x+k$. If that was the case, the read quorum would own got returned at to the lowest degree 1 node that has $s$ greater than $\underline{s}$, violating the create clean read.

Accordingly, a read is dirty if at to the lowest degree 1 node has seen a higher slot position out inward accepted land $s>\underline{s}$. The value learned from muddied read is dangerous to render every bit the same value is non guaranteed to live seen from subsequent reads. Therefore, a 2d stage of read is required to confirm that such a slot is finalized/cleaned. For the 2d phase, the rinse phase, the customer retries whatever replica to run into if $s$ is at nowadays applied/executed. If so, the read is completed every bit the electrical flow value inward slot $s$. It is possible to perform this 2d stage every bit a callback from a replica to the customer every bit well.


There are several optimizations possible over this basic scheme, together with apply this to many Paxos flavors. We are currently investigating those optimizations.

To recap, the of import affair nigh PQR is that it helps repose the charge betwixt Paxos leader together with replicas. Relieving the leader from serving reads allows it to serve to a greater extent than writes. Reads move underutilized replicas together with are performed past times clients. This trend PQR improves throughput, peculiarly inward write-heavy workloads. The figure shows that amongst a 75% writes workload, PQR  is able to supply meliorate latency together with higher maximum throughput.


You tin read to a greater extent than nigh the PQR method in our HotStorage paper.

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