To expand on this point, check out this talk by the CockroachDB VP of engineering[0]: they used raft but found out that it's approximately as complicated as pax

To expand on this point, check out this talk by the CockroachDB VP of engineering[0]: they used raft but found out that it's approximately as complicated as paxos. They also do non-quorum reads, all through the leader replica) [0] https://atscaleconference.com/videos/scale-2018-run-your-database-like-a-cdn/ https://atscaleconference.com/videos/scale-2018-run-your-dat...