Apache ZooKeeper is an important tool for distributed systems, providing a reliable coordination service for distributed applications. It is essential to understand the internal components of ZooKeeper and their significance in order to make the most of this powerful tool. This introduction will provide an overview of the components of ZooKeeper and their importance in distributed systems.
## Apache Zookeeper Leveraged for Coordination Services and zNodes
Coding with Apache Zookeeper
Apache Zookeeper is a powerful tool for coding distributed applications. It provides coordination services to manage distributed applications, such as configuration information, naming, synchronization and group services over large clusters in distributed systems. For example, Apache Kafka uses Zookeeper to select the leader node for topic partitions. The key concept of Zookeeper is the zNode, which can be used as either files or directories. ZNodes can be replicated between servers as they are working in a distributed file system. Every modification of zNodes increases its version. Znode can be described by a data structure called stats, which consolidates information about zNode context like creation time, number of changes, number of children, length of stored data or zxid (ZooKeeper transaction ID) of creation, and last change.
Conclusion
Apache Zookeeper is an essential tool for coding distributed applications. It provides coordination services to manage distributed applications, such as configuration information, naming, synchronization and group services over large clusters in distributed systems. The key concept of Zookeeper is the zNode, which can be used as either files or directories. ZNodes can be replicated between servers as they are working in a distributed file system. Every modification of zNodes increases its version and it can be described by a data structure called stats, which consolidates information about zNode context.
