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'''Raft''' is a [[Consensus (computer science)|consensus]] algorithm designed as an alternative to [[Paxos (computer science)|Paxos]]. It was meant to be more understandable than Paxos by means of separation of logic, but it is also formally proven safe and offers some additional features.<ref name="paper"/> Raft offers a generic way to distribute a [[Finite-state machine|state machine]] across a [[Computer cluster|cluster]] of computing systems, ensuring that each node in the cluster agrees upon the same series of state transitions. It has a number of open-source reference implementations, with full-specspecification implementations in [[Go (programming language)|Go]], [[C++]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], and [[Scala (programming language)|Scala]].<ref name="website" />

== Basics ==