HovercRaft

This repository contains the code for the paper:

HovercRaft: Achieving Scalability and Fault-tolerance for microsecond-scale Datacenter Services
Marios Kogias, Edouard Bugnion
Eurosys 2020

You can find the paper here

The repository contains several submodules and directories.

r2p2: The codebase for the Request Response Pair Protocol for datacenter RPCs
raft: The raft codebase used with its modifications.
redis: The redis codebase with the R2P2 modifications
lancet: The lancet latency measuring tool and load generator used for the experiments
redismodule: A redis module that implements the YCSB-E workload used in HovercRaft's evaluation
distbenchr: A python package used to run distributed experiments
scripts: Basic scripts to deploy and run HovercRaft for the synthetic and Redis experiments.

Build

To get the dependencies and build an example run:

git submodule update --init --recursive
make hovercraft-stss

Check the Makefile for more build options.

Check the scipts directory for running experiments. Configure the fabfile.py and driver.py scripts accordingly.

Also, configure the r2p2.conf for HovercRaft as described in the R2P2 repository.