YugabyteDB replicates data using Raft consensus protocol for fault tolerance and providing consistency guarantees. The authors of Raft, Diego Ongaro and John Ousterhout, wanted to create a consensus protocol that was simpler and more understandable than the widely-used Paxos protocol. Although the authors chose the name "Raft" when thinking about logs, what can be built using them, and how to escape the island of Paxos, it is common to see Raft expanded as Replication for Availability and Fau...
