System Design Fundamentals
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Replication Methods

The last lesson covered when a write is confirmed. This lesson covers who is allowed to accept one, which is the choice that shapes everything else about a replicated system.

There are seven arrangements worth knowing.

1. Single-leader Replication

One node handles all the writes. The others, called followers, replicate its state, either synchronously or asynchronously. Depending on the settings, a follower may or may not serve reads. This is also called primary-backup replication.

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Tan Chin Siang

Tan Chin Siang

· 2 years ago

In the context I saw that the write operations are all handled by primary. Therefore, what is the additional difference between them? Or are they the same method actually..

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tanish bansal

tanish bansal

· 2 years ago

Both read replica and snapshot replication seems to be exact same, can you elaborate the differneces

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