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		setr on Aug 31, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dqlite – High-Availability SQLite I just mean that RAFT nodes are already read-only for most of their lives — it’s not clear to me why you’d want nodes to be dedicated as read-only; it would only reduce consistency guarantees (and I believe you wouldn’t be avoiding the heartbeat and data consistency network chatter).. I think the leadership functionality comes cheap

zellyn on Aug 31, 2019 [–]

That makes sense. I need to read up on Raft again.

I know Zookeeper, for example, supports observer nodes: essentially a cheaper read-only cache. Chubby at Google had the same thing.

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