Introduction to CURP consensus protocol
published on 2023/10/31
The consensus protocol used in Xline is not Paxos or Raft, but a new consensus protocol called CURP, which is called "Consistent Unordered Replication Protocol (CURP)". It was initiated in NSDI 2019's paper "Exploiting Commutativity For Practical Fast Replication," which was authored by Seo Jin Park, a PhD student from Stanford, and Prof. John Ousterhout, who is also the authors of Raft algorithm.