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. The draft under submission is 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://github.com/logcabin/logcabin/issues . You'll need a github account (free) to submit new issues.
Topics
Related work
Chubby (Google)
The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems (OSDI '06)
Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective (PODC '07)
ZooKeeper (Yahoo!, Apache)
ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems (USENIX '10)
Zab: High-performance broadcast for primary-backup systems (DSN '11)
Doozer (Heroku)
http://xph.us/2011/04/13/introducing-doozer.html
Paxos
Paxos Made Simple (PODC '01)
See also Paxos Made Live under the Chubby heading.
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)