PigPaxos: Devouring the Communication Bottlenecks in Distributed Consensus

@article{Charapko2021PigPaxosDT,
title={PigPaxos: Devouring the Communication Bottlenecks in Distributed Consensus},
author={Aleksey Charapko and Ailidani Ailijiang and Murat Demirbas},
journal={Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Management of Data},
year={2021}
}
• Published 17 March 2020
• Computer Science
• Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Management of Data
Strongly consistent replication helps keep application logic simple and provides significant benefits for correctness and manageability. Unfortunately, the adoption of strongly-consistent replication protocols has been curbed due to their limited scalability and performance. To alleviate the leader bottleneck in strongly-consistent replication protocols, we introduce Pig, an in-protocol communication aggregation and piggybacking technique. Pig employs randomly selected nodes from follower…
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