CockroachDB Glossary

Multi-Active Availability

What is Multi-Active Availability?

Multi-Active Availability is CockroachDB’s high availability model. All replicas in the cluster can handle traffic, including both reads and writes, but the Raft consensus is used to ensure data remains consistent. This model also prevents RTO if a node goes down.

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