Why Does Neon Use Paxos Instead of Raft, and What’s the Difference?

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Stas Kelvich. "Why Does Neon Use Paxos Instead of Raft, and What’s the Difference?" neon.tech, August 2022. Archived at perma.cc/SEZ4-2GXU

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Why does Neon use Paxos instead of Raft, and what's the difference? - Neon

TLDR: Neon separates storage and compute, substituting the PostgreSQL persistency layer with a custom-made distributed storage written in Rust. Due to this separation, some nodes don’t have persistent disks. The original Raft paper works only with uniform nodes, but Paxos variants support proposers without storage and allow the acceptors to be the only nodes that […]

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