Total Order Broadcast

Total order broadcast is usually described as a protocol for exchanging messages between nodes. Informally, it requires that two safety properties always be satisfied:

  1. Reliable delivery
    • No messages are lost: if a message is delivered to one node, it is delivered to all nodes.
  2. Totally ordered delivery
    • Messages are delivered to every node in the same order.

Created from: Raft & Paxos 202211231100


uid: 202211232155 tags: #distributed-systems #software-engineering


Date
February 22, 2023