What you describe is relatively reasonable, even though Zookeeper is not normally distributed across multiple data centers with all members getting full votes. If you account for the limited throughput that this will impose on your applications that use ZK, then I think that this can work well. Probably, you would have local ZK clusters for higher transaction rate applications.
You should also consider very carefully whether having multiple data centers increases or decreases your overall reliability. Unless you design very carefully, this will normally substantially degrade reliability. Making sure that it increases reliability is a really big task that involves a lot of surprising (it was to me) considerations and considerable hardware and time investments. Good luck! On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Martin Waite <waite....@googlemail.com>wrote: > Is this a viable approach, or am I taking Zookeeper out of its application > domain and just asking for trouble ? > -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve
