Re: Looking for pointers about replication internal working

[DuyHai Doan]

As far as I remember, Apache Cassandra wanted to be self-sufficient and
avoid pulling yet-another-piece-of-external-software for its internal work.

With lightweight transactions since 3.0, it has the sufficient primitive
for some scenarios that require linearizability

My 2 cents

Duy Hai DOAN

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 1:52 AM Han <keepsim...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm reading an old annotated version of the Cassandra paper (
> https://docs.datastax.com/en/articles/cassandra/cassandrathenandnow.html)
> ,  and am curious about this annotation about "Replication" section:
>
> Zookeeper usage was restricted to Facebook’s in-house Cassandra branch;
> Apache Cassandra has always avoided it.
>
> <snip>
>
> Is there any paper or blog or other pointers to understand what Apache
> Cassandra did to avoid Zookeeper?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Han
>
>