It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.
It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.
A lot of distributed databases use the concept of quorum to prevent split-brain. Does that make them a kind of democracy?
Usually quorum is maintained by using odd numbering so that when one node fails the next sequential node assumes the role allowing quorum-election breaking any ties.
It depends, there are too many different databases to say they all use that approach.