Is this similar to facebook's scribe server project? How "production- 
ready" is bookkeeper?

Steve

On Feb 14, 2009, at 8:56 AM, "Bill de hOra" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Patrick Hunt wrote:
>
>> A bit about BookKeeper: a system to reliably log streams of  
>> records. In
>> BookKeeper, servers are "bookies", log streams are "ledgers", and  
>> each
>> unit of a log (aka record) is a "ledger entry". BookKeeper is  
>> designed
>> to be reliable; bookies, the servers that store ledgers can be
>> byzantine, which means that some subset of the bookies can fail,  
>> corrupt
>> data, discard data, but as long as there are enough correctly  
>> behaving
>> servers the service as a whole behaves correctly; the meta data for
>> BookKeeper is stored in ZooKeeper.
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> this sounds cool. Are there any figures on throughput, ie how many
> records BookKeeper can process per second?
>
> Bill

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