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Gyrex/Development Space/ZooKeeper Interaction
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This article provides insights into how Gyrex interacts with ZooKeeper.
Prerequisites
Please read about ZooKeeper. This article may use terminology which is specific to ZooKeeper and also goes right into the details.
Summary
ZooKeeper is used in Gyrex in order to implement the core functionality of clustering in Gyrex:
- Which node belongs to the cloud? (Membership)
- Which node offers which functionality in the cloud? (Coordination)
ZooKeeper also offers receipts which allow to implement additional functionality. Based on those receipts the following additional capabilities are also implemented in Gyrex:
- Eclipse Preferences
cloud
Scope which stores preferences in ZooKeeper - Queue Service (similar to Amazon SQS) which allows to post and receive messages with a visibility timout
- Lock Service which allows to create distributed locks (based on ephemeral as well as persistent nodes)