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Aug 3, 2017 · Fundamentals

How X‑Paxos Transforms Distributed Consensus for High‑Performance Databases

X‑Paxos is Alibaba’s high‑performance, independently designed Paxos library that extends the classic consensus algorithm with multi‑threaded architecture, pluggable logging, adaptive batching and pipelining, and flexible node roles, delivering strong consistency, high availability, and low latency for global distributed databases and services.