Neha, From my understanding, you would also lose the offset tracking in the standard consumers.
Ed On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Any chance we can get those operational details added? > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Operations#Operations-Zookeeper > > Certainly. I said I will do this, but then forgot about it. I will surely > get this in by next week. > > Regarding Kafka's zookeeper dependency, I guess its not very clear from our > design doc on what Kafka features you lose by not running zookeeper. > > If you choose to not run zookeeper, you will not be able to use the > auto-load balancing on the consumer side. Also, the producer side > zookeeper-based load balancing feature will be unusable. > > Let me see if I can update our design doc to make this clearer. > > Thanks, > Neha > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Christian Carollo <ccaro...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Thanks, Ed. I had seen that link. I am really looking for a clear outline/ >> set of rules as to when and why to use zookeeper and when and why not to. >> >> Then if using it makes sense, it seems like there are some value known >> details about how to keep zookeeper happy that would be great to have >> documented. >> >> Christian >> >> >> On Apr 27, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Edward Smith <esm...@stardotstar.org> wrote: >> >> > Christian, >> > >> > I'm new to Kafka, too. The page linked below describes how ZK is >> > typically used with Kafka, although it is my impression that you don't >> > have to use ZK if you don't want to. Not using it is also described >> > briefly in the design. >> > >> > http://incubator.apache.org/kafka/design.html >> > >> > Ed >> > >> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Christian Carollo <ccaro...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Is it possible to get a broad overview of what Zookeeper provides >> kafka? Why it is used with Kafka? >> >> >> >> Also in the Wiki > Operations, there is a Zookeeper section but it >> really just says that it needs to be filled in. >> >> Any chance we can get those operational details added? >> >> >> >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Operations#Operations-Zookeeper >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Christian >>
