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Paxos is poorly explained in the multi-decree method, because the explanation isn't particularly opinionated about how SMR and logging is done. Raft only has a multi-decree variant, and it has opinions on how to do leader election, etc...

Fundamentally, both protocols (multi-decree, multi-paxos, and Raft are equivalent (in performance, and capability)). There are other variants of Paxos (ePaxos) that have advantages to Paxos in some cases, especially in the WAN.




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