etcd Overview

etcd is a distributed reliable key-value store having the following properties:

• Simple: well-defined, user-facing API (gRPC)
• Secure: automatic TLS with optional client cert authentication
• Fast: benchmarked 10,000 writes/sec
• Reliable: properly distributed using Raft

etcd is written in Go and uses the Raft consensus algorithm to manage a highly-available replicated log.

etcd and SingularityNet Platform

etcd is used as storage to store context related to

• Payments
• Free Call Usage at an organization level.

The section ETCD setup section details how to set up an etcd cluster

Last modified on : 15-Oct-24