On the last point, in general, Kafka logs are identical among replicas. The
only case that they may not be identical is when an unclean leader election
happens, i.e., a leader has to be elected from a replica not in in-sync
replica set). Unclean leader election should be rare since this requires
mu
More notable differences from Kafka as far as log replication protocol
is concerned -
- Raft considers log entries as committed as soon as it is
acknowledged by a majority of the servers in a cluster. Compare this
to Kafka where we have the notion of "in-sync followers" that are
required to ack ev
Thanks for the link. This paper provides an alternative, but similar
implementation to that in Zookeeper. The key difference seems to be that
the former supports membership reconfiguration.
Kafka replication is simpler because it separates the leader election part
from log replication. Such separa
Very similar in design to kafka replication
https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/11370504/raft.pdf
-Jay
