Master fault tolerance in Kudu 1.0

Posted 24 Jun 2016 by Adar Dembo

This blog post describes how the 1.0 release of Apache Kudu (incubating) will support fault tolerance for the Kudu master, finally eliminating Kudu’s last single point of failure.

Using Raft Consensus on a Single Node

Posted 17 Jun 2016 by Mike Percy

As Kudu marches toward its 1.0 release, which will include support for multi-master operation, we are working on removing old code that is no longer needed. One such piece of code is called LocalConsensus. Once LocalConsensus is removed, we will be using Raft consensus even on Kudu tables that have a replication factor of 1.