Explaining Apache ZooKeeper

Question

I am trying to understand ZooKeeper, how it works and what it does. Is there any application which is comparable to ZooKeeper?

If you know, then how would you descr

Answer 1

Zookeeper is a centralized open-source server for maintaining and managing configuration information, naming conventions and synchronization for distributed cluster environment. Zookeeper helps the distributed systems to reduce their management complexity by providing low latency and high availability. Zookeeper was initially a sub-project for Hadoop but now it's a top level independent project of Apache Software Foundation.

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