The consumer stores the offset for you in zookeeper. This occurs periodically in the background (if you enable auto.commit=true), or when you call commit() explicitly.
-Jay On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Mark <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote: > " rather than store metadata for each message (marking it as consumed, > say), we just need to store the "high water mark" for each combination of > consumer, topic, and partition" > > Typically where would one store this offset? > > >
