ZooKeeper分布式过程协同技术详解

英文版名称：ZooKeeper: Distributed Process Coordination

第1章 简介

当你决定使用ZooKeeper来设计应用时，最好将应用数据和协同数据独立开。
比如：网路邮箱服务的用户对自己邮箱中的内容感兴趣，但是并不关心由哪台服务器来处理特定邮箱的请求。在这个例子中，邮箱内容就是应用数据，而从邮箱到某一台邮箱服务器之间的映射关系就是协同数据（或称元数据）。整个ZooKeeper服务所管理的就是后者。

1.1 ZooKeeper的使命

• Apache Hbase
  HBase是一个通常与Hadoop一起使用的数据存储仓库。在HBase中，ZooKeeper用于选举一个集群内的主节点，以便跟踪可用的服务器，并保存集群的元数据。
• 关于ZooKeeper名字的来源
  ZooKeeper was developed at Yahoo! Research. We had been working on ZooKeeper for a while and pitching it to other groups, so we needed a name. At the time the group had been working with the Hadoop team and had started a variety of projects with the names of animals, Apache Pig being the most well known. As we were talking about different possible names, one of the group members mentioned that we should avoid another animal name because our manager thought it was s