Project Sherlock

Paper

2011

Zab: High-performance broadcast for primary-backup systems

Flavio P. Junqueira, Benjamin C. Reed & Marco Serafini

Describes the atomic broadcast protocol behind ZooKeeper, built around a primary that establishes an order once and lets followers simply replay it, rather than Paxos's per-value agreement.

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Filed under Distributed Systems in Computer Science.