In Raft, the stable leader is the only one that can act on requests, which can be limiting in the wide area. Also, leader election phases can introduce respons

In Raft, the stable leader is the only one that can act on requests, which can be limiting in the wide area. Also, leader election phases can introduce response time spikes. Some eludications of paxos (e.g. Egalitarian Paxos[0]) can improve on both of those characteristics. [0] http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2014/papers/epaxos.pdf http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2014/papers/epaxos.pdf