Thanks guys. but I feel it would probably be better to refactor out the hooks and make components like zookeeper pluggable , so users could use either zookeeper or the current config-file based seeds discovery
Yang On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Jeremy Hanna <jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Further, when they open-sourced cassandra, they removed certain things that > are specific to their environment at facebook, including zookeeper > integration. In the paper it has some specific purposes, like finding seeds > iirc. Apache Cassandra has no dependency on zookeeper. I think that's a > good thing as managing cassandra is easier without those kinds of > dependencies, e.g. for shops that don't currently use any hadoop components. > > On Oct 19, 2010, at 3:11 AM, Norman Maurer wrote: > >> No Zookeeper is not used in cassandra. You can use Zookeeper as some >> kind of add-on to do locking etc. >> >> Bye, >> Norman >> >> >> 2010/10/19 Yang <teddyyyy...@gmail.com>: >>> I read from the Facebook cassandra paper that zookeeper "is used >>> ....." for certain things ( membership and Rack-aware placement) >>> >>> but I pulled 0.7.0-beta2 source and couldn't grep out anything with >>> "Zk" or "Zoo", nor any files with "Zk/Zoo" in the names >>> >>> >>> is Zookeeper really used? docs/blog posts from online search kind of >>> give conflicting answers >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> Yang >>> > >
