Full PostgreSQL with time series superpowers bolted in at the storage layer

Decouples producers from consumers, allowing asynchronous processing and better fault tolerance

PBFT handles Byzantine faults: nodes that can lie, send conflicting messages, or behave arbitrarily. Raft and Paxos only handle crash faults where nodes either work correctly or stop completely. If you need consensus in an adversarial environment, you need something like PBFT