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Re:How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service by RyanShook on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @09:25PM (#16982632)
Can the concept of distributed consensus be seen as an alternative to block chain? https://raft.github.io
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Re:How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service by zapita on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @10:47PM (#16983004)
No, blockchains are built on top of distributed consensus. You can have distributed consensus without a blockchain, but not the other way around.
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