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    > Solr uses ZooKeeper under the hood which implements the
    > Paxos algorithm

ZooKeeper does not implement Paxos.

You are correct. It is not an implementation of Paxos, but a Paxos-inspired protocol. http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ZooKeeper/PaxosRun