Overview¶
Aeron Cluster provides an implementation of Raft Consensus upon which highly available services can be built.
Aeron Cluster has the following capabilities:
- sequences multiple client connections into a single, replicated log
- provides efficient fault tolerance with 2 or more nodes
- provides Aeron Archive endpoints for writing to snapshots and reading from snapshots on start
- allows 1 or more clustered services to be run, with support for inter-service sequenced messaging
- reliable, sequenced timers
- very high levels of performance, in particular with premium features such as Solarflare EF_VI kernel bypass
Typical use cases include:
- host one or more central limit order books
- host RFQ, IOI or similar negotiation logic
- message sequencer
- game state for multi-player games
- any other scenario where you require fault tolerant, high performance state