What do you mean by new algorithms? The post mentions Raft and Paxos. Only Raft is new. And Sebastian Kanthak said during his Google Spanner talk: "Our Paxos i

What do you mean by new algorithms? The post mentions Raft and Paxos. Only Raft is new. And Sebastian Kanthak said during his Google Spanner talk: "Our Paxos implementation is closer to Raft algorithm than to what you'd read in Paxos paper which is… horrible." http://www.infoq.com/presentations/spanner-distributed-google http://www.infoq.com/presentations/spanner-distributed-googl...