athersharif / styx

Styx++ is an easy-to-integrate open-source solution that bundles together existing tools and concepts, providing researchers outside of the systems domain with a reliable distributed system for their database needs.

Styx++

Styx++ is an easy-to-integrate open-source solution that bundles together existing tools and concepts, providing researchers outside of the systems domain with a reliable distributed system for their database needs. Styx++ is a hybrid solution involving both the Paxos and Chain Replication Protocol, providing strong consistency and high availability to minimize the risks of single-point failures in a traditional database system setup.

This library is part of an ongoing research project being conducted at the University of Washington, led by Ather Sharif. Citations and links to our published work can be found at the end of this document.

Initiation

make docker-up will start all the containers, including Consul.

Performance Testing

make performance-testing will run all the performance tests using K6 (needs installation).

Citations

Sharif, A., Gan, E.F., Wei, M. (2022). Styx++: Reliable Data Access and Availability Using a Hybrid Paxos and Chain Replication Protocol. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). New Orleans, Louisiana (April 30 - May 6, 2022). New York: ACM Press. To appear.

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