cizixs / awesome-raft

Raft is gaining popularity in distributed systems as a simple and powerful consensus algorithm.

awesome-raft

A curated resources of raft consensus algorithm and its friends.

NOTE: Contributions are welcome, just create a pull request!

Raft

Algoritm

• The Paper: Raft: In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm.
• A nice illustration of raft: Raft Understandable Distributed Consensus

Implementations

Due to its simplicity, raft is widely implemented in different lanaguages and softwares, here is some of them:

• etcd/raft: golang implentation used inside etcd
• hashicorp/raft: another golang implementation used among hashicorp applications
• brpc/braft: C++ implementation open sourced by Baidu Inc.
• alipay/sofa-jraft: Java implementation by Alipay Inc.
• wenweihu86/raft-java: Raft Java implementation that are simple and easy to understand.

Raft Friends

Beside Raft, there are some other consensus algorithms that are frequently discussed.

Chubby

Chubby is invented by Google, and used as a cornerstone of many distributed softwares.

• The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems

Paxos

• Paxos Made Simple

Zab

Zab protocal is used by Zookeeper, and is proven to be a solid and practical.

• Zab: A Simple Totally Ordered Broadcast Protocol

References

There are other distributed system, consensus algorithm repo you might be interested:

• Awesome Consensus
• Awesome Distributed Systems