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		politician on May 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CockroachDB 1.0 > CockroachDB uses synchronous replication via raft Deep space aside, I wish the announcement just said that! I came back to HN for insight into the paragraph about "multi-active availability... an evolution in high availability from active-active replication". Marketing... sometimes... I tell you what.

state_machine on May 10, 2017 [–]

Whoops, sorry about that. If you're looking for more on how it works (rocksdb, raft, distributed transactions across multiple raft groups, etc), you might find the design doc interesting: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de...

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