MicroRaft / MicroRaft
MicroRaft is a feature-complete and stable open-source implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm in Java. It is a single lightweight JAR file of a few hundred KBs of size. It can be used for building fault tolerant and strongly-consistent (CP) data, metadata and coordination services. A few examples of possible use-cases are building distributed file systems, key-value stores, distributed lock services, etc.
MicroRaft works on top of a minimalistic and modular design. It is a single lightweight JAR with a few hundred KBs of size and only logging dependency. It contains an isolated implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm, and a set of accompanying abstractions to run the algorithm in a multi-threaded and distributed environment. These abstractions are defined to isolate the core algorithm from the concerns of persistence, thread-safety, serialization, networking, and actual state machine logic. Users are required to provide their own implementations of these abstractions to build their custom CP distributed systems with MicroRaft.
Please note that MicroRaft is not a high-level solution like a distributed key-value store or a distributed lock service. It is a core library that offers a set of abstractions and functionalities to help you build such high-level systems.
