This might be of some help: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ZooKeeperIntegration
I am not sure if Solr/Lucene has the implementation part done or thats just the design doc. Also, http://katta.sourceforge.net/documentation/how-katta-works thanks mahadev On Sep 15, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Uday Subbarayan wrote: > Hey Guys, > Any one used ZK for Database sharding? I am thinking something like > this- > -DB shard info is kept in ZK > -Application makes the call to ZK first to get the shard info (which database > server has what data) > -Then application connects to right DB for accessing data. > -Any shard change is communicated to the app with ZK watch. > > I see that Rackspace use case and just checking the community for anyone > done it... > > Thanks, > -Uday.
