there aren't any limits on the number of znodes, it's just limited by
your memory. there are two things (probably more :) to keep in mind:
1) the 1M limit also applies to the children list. you can't grow the
list of children to more than 1M (the sum of the names of all of the
children) otherwise you cannot to a getChildren(). so, yes, you need to
do some bucketing to keep the number of children to something
reasonable. assuming your names will be less than 100 bytes, you
probably want to limit the number of children to 10,000.
2) since there are times that you need to do a state transfer between
servers (dump all the state from one to the other to bring it online) it
may take a while depending on your network speed. you may need to bump
up the default initLimit, so make sure you do some benchmarking on your
platform to test your configuration parameters.
ben
Michael Bauland wrote:
Hello,
I'm new to the Zookeeper project and wondering whether our use case is a
good one for Zookeeper. I read the documentation, but couldn't find an
answer. At some point it says that
A common property of the various forms of coordination data is that they are
relatively small: measured in kilobytes. The ZooKeeper client and the server
implementations have sanity checks to ensure that znodes have less than 1M of
data
I couldn't find any limits on the number of znodes used, only that each
znode should only contain little data. We were planning to use a million
znodes (each containing a few hundred bytes of data). Would this use
case be acceptable for Zookeeper? And if so, does it matter if we have a
flat hierarchy (i.e, all nodes have the root node as their direct
ancestor) or should we introduce some (artificial) hierarchy levels to
have a more tree-like structure?
Thanks in advance for your answer.
Cheers,
Michael
