Previously we discussed single-decree Paxos, and then we looked at problems that arise when it's extended into multi-Paxos. We concluded with the encouraging suggestion that we could use single-decree Paxos in a different way: the minitransaction. TreodeDB provides atomic writes and yet has no single points of failure, no scaling bottlenecks and no masters to fail-over. Does this sound unbelievable? The minitransaction makes it possible. Background The Apache Hadoop file system depends on t...