lni/dragonboat

Health v2 · maintenance only

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5324 stars · 572 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Dragonboat is a feature-complete, high-performance multi-group Raft consensus library written in pure Go. It lets developers build strongly consistent, fault-tolerant distributed applications by handling leader election, log replication, snapshotting, and membership changes.

Use cases

• build a replicated state machine in Go
• implement fault-tolerant distributed storage
• add strong consistency to a distributed system
• run multiple Raft groups for sharded consensus
• build a highly available key-value store
• replicate application state across servers

When to choose

• you need a production-grade Raft implementation in Go
• you need to run many Raft groups at scale
• you want disk-based or memory-based state machine support
• you need TLS mutual authentication and pipelining for high-latency networks

When to avoid

• you need a ready-made distributed database rather than a library
• your project is not in Go
• you only need single-node persistence without consensus
• you prefer an off-the-shelf etcd-style service over embedding a library

Facets

library · maturity stable

concurrency database middleware microservices databases developer-tools go windows cross-platform raft consensus replicated-state-machine fault-tolerance multi-group linux macos

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