%0 Journal Article %T PaxosLease: Diskless Paxos for Leases %A M¨˘rton Trencs¨¦ni %A Attila Gazs¨® %A Holger Reinhardt %J Computer Science %D 2012 %I arXiv %X This paper describes PaxosLease, a distributed algorithm for lease negotiation. PaxosLease is based on Paxos, but does not require disk writes or clock synchrony. PaxosLease is used for master lease negotation in the open-source Keyspace and ScalienDB replicated key-value stores. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4187v1