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Time to Implement

6 months

Return on Investment

28 months

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Users consistently praise ZooKeeper for its reliable coordination and ease of use in managing distributed systems, particularly with Kafka. The software's ability to handle configuration management and ensure high availability makes it a valuable tool for many. However, some users note a common limitation regarding migration challenges and potential data loss when adding new servers.
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Subhadip K.
SK
Senior Consultant
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Zookeeper can be used server client coordinator with Kafka , a good setup in cloud based application"
What do you like best about ZooKeeper?

For any cloud based application Zookeeper is a well versed software and a great technology to build client server mechanism .The controller brokers are dependent on zookeeper , when to assigned and de assigned . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

There is nothing to dislike about this Zookeeper , We need to know when can we use this . In any cloud containerised Application zookeeper can be used for server mechanism, to handle broker . and it provides metadata of a datamodel which will be stored by Zookeeper. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vaibhav J.
VJ
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Very stable and mature product for distributed computing systems."
What do you like best about ZooKeeper?

Its a very stable and mature product for all distributed computing needs. Scales easily and easy to manage and use. Serves different use cases like leader election, distributed lock/leasing, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

Some issues with the usability of zkCli. Its a simple utility but sometimes confuses users by showing empty responses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anshu A.
AA
Big Data Developer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"well organizer Technolgy"
What do you like best about ZooKeeper?

easy to use and configure

being the nerveous system of the HA cluster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

maintainance and upgrade problem

with performance overload perform in application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
UR
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Highly reliable and require less maintenance"
What do you like best about ZooKeeper?

Easy to integrate with other services in any cluster. Highly reliable and requires less maintenance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

There is nothing to dislike about this Zookeeper. Just some issues with usability of zkcli Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tanmay A.
TA
Data Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Exploring zookeeper"
What do you like best about ZooKeeper?

Zookeeper is a very useful service as I was using this with Hadoop where it manages the node and see whether the node is alive or not If not it assign to the secondary available node that helps us a lot not worry about the cluster manitaince Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

Zookeeper however help us in many ways but some things that I don't like it that it is very slow and waited for the response of the node for a certain period that waste My time for switching the node Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Online Media
CO
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Zookeper for Service discovery"
What do you like best about ZooKeeper?

The best thing about zookeepers is their ability to scale and self-resilience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

Configuration of Zookeeper is hard with minimum support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Distributed key value store for large systems"
What do you like best about ZooKeeper?

The ease of usability is good for zookeeper. The APIs are extensive and the support community is good for resolving the issues. It can handle large number of client session in a multi node deployment model and supports high availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

The zookeeper sessions gets unexpectedly closed if there is high io load in the disk. And there are many times, this cause our services to crash. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AK
CTO
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Seamless Solr Setup with ZooKeeper"
What do you like best about ZooKeeper?

ZooKeeper has been an invaluable tool in setting up my Solr environment. Its centralized configuration management and distributed coordination capabilities have greatly simplified the process, ensuring seamless communication between Solr nodes. With ZooKeeper, I can effortlessly manage and monitor my Solr cluster, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

ZooKeeper's learning curve and maintenance demands was a little challenging for me and require careful attention for stability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"good distributed coordination service for k8"
What do you like best about ZooKeeper?

Apache ZooKeeper is great for distrbuted coordination used in Kubernetes. I tprovides high avaialblity which includes election and failover when there's a node failure along with other features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

Apache ZooKeeper has an extrememly high learning curve and requires many years of experience with distrbuted systems. It is not mandatory to have Zookeeper running in your k8 environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Self-managed Kafka with ZooKeeper"
What do you like best about ZooKeeper?

We're currently running self-managed Kafka with the ZooKeeper stack, which has been very stable and performant in fulfilling business requirements. It's easy to install and compatible with the Kafka service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

Our current self-managed Kafka and ZooKeeper stack represents an increased ops burden regarding Software Patches, Upgrades, Provision, Sizing, Monitoring, and Manual operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ivan Z.
IZ
Ivan Zolotaryov
Last activity almost 6 years ago

What is the best way to upload configuration and is there any 3ed party program for uploading files?

Prabhunath Y.
PY
Prabhunath Yadav
Last activity over 5 years ago

Can zookeeper be used as database.

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Time to Implement

6 months

Return on Investment

28 months

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