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ZooKeeper is a distributed, open-source coordination service for
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distributed applications. It exposes a simple set of primitives that
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distributed applications can build upon to implement higher level
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services for synchronization, configuration maintenance, and groups
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and naming. It is designed to be easy to program to, and uses a data
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model styled after the familiar directory tree structure of file
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systems. It runs in Java and has bindings for both Java and C.
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Coordination services are notoriously hard to get right. They are
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especially prone to errors such as race conditions and deadlock. The
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motivation behind ZooKeeper is to relieve distributed applications the
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responsibility of implementing coordination services from scratch.
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WWW: http://zookeeper.apache.org/
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