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Do all nodes participate as full RAFT nodes? Or can you have read-only nodes?

• setr 7y ago
  Aren't non-leader RAFT nodes already read-only?
  • zellyn 7y ago
    I guess I meant observer nodes, with read-only DB access.
    • setr 7y ago
      I just mean that RAFT nodes are already read-only for most of their lives — it’s not clear to me why you’d want nodes to be dedicated as read-only; it would only reduce consistency guarantees (and I believe you wouldn’t be avoiding the heartbeat and data consistency network chatter).. I think the leadership functionality comes cheap
      • zellyn 7y ago
        That makes sense. I need to read up on Raft again. I know Zookeeper, for example, supports observer nodes: essentially a cheaper read-only cache. Chubby at Google had the same thing.