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Keyspace
This is the document that the interested programmer or engineer should read first:
This paper describes the design and architecture of Keyspace, a distributed key-value store offering strong consistency, fault-tolerance and high availability. The source code is released as free, open-source software under the BSD license.
PaxosLease
PaxosLease is a Paxos-based, diskless algorithm for negotiating leases in a distributed system. It is used for master leases in Keyspace.
This paper describes PaxosLease, a distributed algorithm for lease negotiation. PaxosLease is based on Paxos, but does not require disk writes and does not make clock synchrony and skew assumptions. PaxosLease is used for master lease negotation in the open-source Keyspace replicated key-value store.