zookeeper

ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed applications. Each time they are implemented there is a lot of work that goes into fixing the bugs and race conditions that are inevitable. Because of the difficulty of implementing these kinds of services, applications initially usually skimp on them ,which make them brittle in the presence of change and difficult to manage. Even when done correctly, different implementations of these services lead to management complexity when the applications are deployed.

Learn more about ZooKeeper on the ZooKeeper Wiki.

https://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/trunk/zookeeperProgrammers.html

用到Zookeeper的系统:

HDFS中的HA方案 
YARN的HA方案 
Hbase：必须依赖Zookeeper 
Flume：负载均衡，单点故障