I’m trying to understand the smartBFT and RAFT consensus protocols in the Hyperledger Fabric. As you know, starting from Fabric v3.0, smartBFT can be used as an ordered type. I checked the official Hyperledger Fabric test network files and saw four orderers in their example. Is this some kind of obligation? If I want to see the performance of RAFT and smartBFT, should I also create four orderers for the RAFT-based network? This can be a silly question but I want to know the logic.

I’m trying to understand the smartBFT and RAFT consensus protocols in the Hyperledger Fabric. As you know, starting from Fabric v3.0, smartBFT can be used as an ordered type. I checked the official Hyperledger Fabric test network files and saw four orderers in their example. Is this some kind of obligation? If I want to see the performance of RAFT and smartBFT, should I also create four orderers for the RAFT-based network? This can be a silly question but I want to know the logic.