Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) is the property of a distributed system that allows it to continue operating correctly even when some of its nodes fail in arbitrary or malicious ways, including sending conflicting or false information to different parts of the system.
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Glossary Terms(4)
Consensus Algorithm
A consensus algorithm is a method that allows a group of distributed nodes to agree on a single value or a consistent sequence of operations, even in the prese…
Raft Consensus
Raft is a consensus algorithm designed to manage a replicated log across a cluster of servers in an understandable way, allowing the cluster to agree on a cons…
Paxos Algorithm
Paxos is a family of protocols for achieving consensus among a group of unreliable or failure-prone nodes in a distributed system, first formally described by…
Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) is the property of a distributed system that allows it to continue operating correctly even when some of its nodes fail in arbi…