DB - Paxos Replicated State Machines as the Basis of a High

Paxos Replicated State Machines as the Basis of a High-Performance.pdf Conventional wisdom holds that Paxos is too expensive to use for high-volume, high-throughput, data-intensive applications. Consequently, fault-tolerant storage systems typically rely on special hardware, semantics weaker than sequential consistency, a limited update interface (such as append-only), primary-backup replication schemes that serialize all reads through the primary, clock synchronization for correctness