TLDR: Leaderless Replication
Date: 2022-01-16 Source: https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/leaderless-replication
Overview
Explore leaderless replication - a fault-tolerant, strongly consistent data replication strategy. Learn how it works and its benefits. Traditional leader-centric replication strategies revolve around the fact that there will be one Master (leader) node that will acknowledge and accept all the writes operations and then replicate the updates across the replicas (read or master).
Key Points
- Traditional leader-centric replication strategies revolve around the fact that there will be one Master (leader) node that will acknowledge and accept all the writes operations and then replicate the updates across the replicas (read or master).
- Write Operation: Say we have a database cluster of 5 nodes (all Masters).
- Read Operation: Given that there could be a significant delay in the updates to propagate across all N nodes, the Read strategy in Leaderless Replication needs to be robust enough.