Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus
Cloudflare Research is building a global consensus service called Meerkat that uses a new consensus algorithm called QuePaxa. We plan to use Meerkat to build a strongly consistent, fault-tolerant key-value store, and other applications.
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Cloudflare Research is building Meerkat, a global consensus service using the new QuePaxa algorithm, to provide strongly consistent, fault-tolerant data storage across their 330+ data centers. Unlike leader-based algorithms like Raft, QuePaxa allows all replicas to perform writes without relying on timeouts, making it more resilient to the unpredictable latencies and failures of wide-area networks.