Intro
LogCabin is a distributed system that provides a small amount of highly replicated, consistent storage. It is a reliable place for other distributed systems to store their core metadata and is helpful in solving cluster management issues. LogCabin is still in early stages of development and is not yet recommended for actual use
We've written a paper about the Raft consensus algorithm which LogCabin uses internally: read it here (PDF).
Source code
LogCabin is still in early stages of development and is not yet recommended for actual use. The source code is here: https://github.com/logcabin/logcabin
Bug tracker
Please report bugs and feature requests to https://bitbucketgithub.orgcom/mashtizadehlogcabin/logcabin/overview
Topics
View Changes vs Multi-Paxosissues . You'll need a github account (free) to submit new issues.
Old Topics
Warning: these are design notes from initial stages of LogCabin and are are probably not relevant any longer.
Other Raft Implementations
This information has moved to the Raft web page: http://raftconsensus.github.io
Related work
Chubby (Google)
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ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems (USENIX '10)
Zab: High-performance broadcast for primary-backup systems (DSN '11)
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Paxos Replicated State Machines as the Basis of a High-Performance Data Store, video (NSDI '11)
Viewstamped Replication
Paxos Made Practical (not published, '07). Note: despite the title, this is actually about Viewstamped Replication, not Paxos.
Viewstamped Replication: A New Primary Copy Method to Support Highly-Available Distributed Systems (PODC '88)