Re: Using zookeeper vs gossip protocols in Kafka

2016-06-01 Thread Flavio P JUNQUEIRA
Are you referring to something like this: https://github.com/edwardcapriolo/gossip ZooKeeper and other systems with a consensus core give you strong guarantees with respect to the order of updates, and for example, you won't be able to avoid split brain with current ISRs if you don't have this co

Using zookeeper vs gossip protocols in Kafka

2016-06-01 Thread Unmesh Joshi
Hi, I see that Kafka uses zookeeper for group membership and leader election. Curious to know if Kafka developers ever discussed to move away from Zookeeper and use Gossip based protocols. Is there any specific advantage of using Zookeeper over Gossip based implementation or vice versa? Thanks, U