It's the second meaning of democratize, meaning "to make something accessible to everyone", that I intended, but I suppose Raft also has commoditized the techno

It's the second meaning of democratize, meaning "to make something accessible to everyone", that I intended, but I suppose Raft also has commoditized the technology, since there are now off-the-shelf libraries you can pick and choose from somewhat interchangeably. FWIW, the CockroachDB people developed a modified version they call MultiRaft [1] that deals with the scaling challenges they have around shards. [1] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/scaling-raft/ https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/scaling-raft/