Apache ZooKeeper
Apache ZooKeeper is an open source coordination service for distributed applications. The following are a few highlights of this project:
- ZooKeeper is designed to be a centralized service.
- ZooKeeper is responsible for maintaining configuration information, offering coordination in a distributed fashion, and a host of other capabilities.
- ZooKeeper offers necessary tools for writing distributed applications which can coordinate effectively.
- ZooKeeper simplifies the development of distributed applications.
- ZooKeeper is being used by some of the Apache projects like HBase to offer high availability and high degree of coordination in a distributed environment.
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