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 >>
