--- title: ZooKeeper Reviews meta_title: 'ZooKeeper Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 99 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how ZooKeeper works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 99 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: Containerization url: https://www.g2.com/categories/containerization --- # ZooKeeper Reviews **Vendor:** The Apache Software Foundation **Category:** [Service Discovery Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/service-discovery) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 99 ## About 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. ## ZooKeeper Reviews ### 1. Wonderful orchestration tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anshuman F. | Software Engineer 2, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** I used zookeeper along with apache kafka for handling my distributed system setup. It's easy to get up and running without having to manage configurations, naming and synchronisation. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Haven't used that much to actually be able to comment on what it lacks. **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** Anyone looking for a great orchestration tool for distributed systems please go and check out apache zookeeper **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** I basically used zookeeper as an orchestration and management tool for Kafka. ### 2. The unseen cluster guard **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** I love zookeeper ability to manage the meta data of a cluster even when the cluster (brokers) lost track of it **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** The need to maintain yet another cluster (zookeeper itself is kind of a cluster) **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** Aim to use it via SaaS offer **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maintaining Kafka Clusters zookeeper adds a layer of reliability and availability ### 3. It has been a good experience working with zookeeper **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi K. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** I have used zookeeper along with Kafka. And most often at the time of failures and lags, we rely on zookeeper. The way with which it contain metadata and connections is excellent. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Nothing as such. Looking can be improved. **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** Use this as you need to implement this. It goes great with Kafka and ELK stack. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Failures, Connections maintainence, Metadata, etc information stuff is managed excellently by zookeeper. ### 4. Zookeeper is a open source server to reliably coordinates distributed processes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Babu C. | Java Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** 1.Consistency 2.Partition tolerance. 3.Replication of Zookeeper state across all the nodes . 4.It's a very lightweight service and its working without downtimes and maintenence **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** In zookeeper we don't have any user interface for managing ztree **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** In my organisation we used this for exposing services to client and it reached my expectations **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solved problem of calling producer Services from consumer ### 5. Zookeeper for leader election and distributed synchronization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubham R. | Software Programmer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Capability to be used in leader election. I used it in one of my projects and I am really impressed. I am already using it in my hadoop and kafka projects . And it works smoothly. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** A little bit on the developed side. Hard to debug at times. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Leader Election. Offset storing for kafka. Maintaining kafka performances. Syncing nodes. ### 6. NameSpace for Cluster Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harneet S. | Sr. Big Data Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** It is kind of a database which saves data in node-like structure. How? It actually stores data in files(end/leaf nodes) and path to reach leaf nodes are directories(which can also store data as leafNodes). **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** There is no guarantee that every server in the ensemble is always completely up to date. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Synchronising access to shared data in a linearized fashion. ### 7. Simple, Useful and easy to maintain **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arvind R. | Software Development engineer IV, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Easy to maintain. Easy to setup Abstracting complex capabilities. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Adding new machine takes downtime or inconsitency Only 3 or 5 nodes are allowed. **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** we were using open source version of zookeeper and it was very easy to manage. One can install it in a smaller instance. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Distributed consensus Configuration management HBase cluster & Hadoop ### 8. Used for 2 years **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** We used for Zookeeper manages all the distributed services and as config management tool. The things I like about it are : 1- It's easy to use 2- can track job timing and clusters performance 3- manage cluster job with help of apache zookeeper **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** User interface for non expert users so that they can manege easily, there are some unoffical tools , would be nice an official too. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used it as a cluster manager to manage Storm nodes / distributed nodes. ### 9. Best for distributied system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lokesh A. | Software Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** I have used zookeeper for distributied system where I need to manage the different system under one server and its voting algorithm is super. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** There is nothing like dislike about zookeeper but there is always a hope to improve. **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** Nothing **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used it in to run kafka on distributed systems ### 10. zookeeper - modern necessity **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** In my organisation, apache zookeeper is used for mainly for Queuing message across a distributed micro services. A massive data is transferred on daily basis and it helps to keep it synchronized and smooth functioning. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** It is a bit complex for beginners i think. I had to go deep to get a basic understanding about its working. **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** Try it once and you'll surely like it **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using for data transfer in form of queued messages and synchronizing various micro services. ### 11. Apache Kafka Zookeeper **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** It pretty well manage search discovery of Kafka brokers or detecting any change in topology without any human/manual intervention. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Not as such, I have a overall satisfactory experience **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** I would recommend it in managing distributed systems. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was using it in managing Kafka Brokers which i have been using as message broker for publishing and receiving messages/records. It is pretty easy to increase/decrease number of brokers thus adjusting scalability in a much easier way ### 12. Apache Zookeeper is great **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yusef M. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** we used Apache Zookeeper for handling the distributed coordination requirements in several distributed systems that I have developed. Apache Zookeeper acted well for us, we were completely satisfied. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** poor documentation on that time. but now it's better **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** not very good documentation on that time. ### 13. Zookeeper review for leader election in a database cluster. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Zookeeper is a super helpful synchronisation service which helped leader election in Adobe Database cluster smooth. The super friendly ZkCLI and the file like hierarchy was very easy to use and it helped us to simulate 40 node cluster in run time. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** I didn't quite like the limitation of nodes in. zookeeper cluster. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving the leader election problem in a database cluster. Our leader election was naive. We realised a lot of improvement after using zookeeper. ### 14. ZooKeeper for Distributed system **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harshal C. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. Good experience when used in CM. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** But also try to eliminate race conditions and complexities. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used zookeeper for configuration management. ### 15. Get data distribution **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raviprakash D. | Senior Software Professional, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Get data fast retrieve and keep record in index way **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Need to proceed for each and every new file change **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** Noo **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keep all sys req in diff source structure ### 16. Happy with Zookeeper **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** We are using zookeeper with kafka clusters. Really it makes us to focus more on our bussiness logic instead of indulging in maintaing & debugging clusters all times. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Sometimes broker got disconnected & doesn't bind up automatically until we restart the broker again. **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** Easy to setup & integrate with other packages. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to handle large number of nodes in a kafka cluster with the help of zookeeper. ### 17. It's too good in the distribut environment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arpit G. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** All the help is available in the stack overflow **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Need to more documents about the zookeeper **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** Every one should use it it's help full in the service **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy installation, easy configure ### 18. It is one of the most amazing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Zookeeper which it runs in background & it which communicates with nodes & falt recovery ... **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** If it have UI it is good for using now giving command line it some difficult . **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** is a great way to combat needed bug fixes as this is something that is frequently overlooked so having a service that specializes in it saves **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using zookeeper for using Kafka purpose ### 19. My Use of Zookeeper **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav Y. | Senior Big Data Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Updating the node’s status, Faliure Recovery,speed **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Migration not possible,disk change,we can not scale in **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are using it in IBM for different projects to monitor ### 20. My experience with ZooKeeper **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** It is best with the shared configuration and cloud managament. Maintenence is easy and it is very light weight service. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Every command we have to write the scripts it will be better if we have the custom scripts for the repetive commands. The installation process is too lenghty. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saves time to redistribute and resources more effectively an API are also useful. ### 21. About Zookeeper **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** It’s the one helps in syncing Hadoop tasks **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** It may lead to data loss when the count of zoo keeper exceeds. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benefits include it is fast, scalable and messages in zookeeper is in order ### 22. Zookeeper **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Zookeeper is a distributed coordination service. And I familiar with all services in it. I recommend feel free and use Zookeeper Framework. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** It's a good framework in the cluster.and it's good for cluster monitoring. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's great impact on work because It will providing the set of service in the cluster. ### 23. My zookeeper experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Currently in my project we using zookeeper service and it's used to coordinate with the other services in the Apache. It's has wonderful futures. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** There are no specific crons I identified **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** As it is used to for coordinating with the other services and also can be used for desaster recovery ### 24. It was good when I used it, seems it could have been better **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** It's good at managing the Kafka stack, liked it **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Multi cluster zookeepers, I was facing issues in selecting the leader **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it for managing Kafka and pushing data to couchbase ### 25. Zookeeper notebooks **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Zookeeper is have easy UI. We can restrict the UI. Can easily integrate with LDAP and AD. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** As of now nothing to dislike. Didn’t found any issues. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using zeppelin for multiple things. We use it for machine learning and data analysis. ### 26. Good tool to coordinate with Kafka cluster **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** In zookeeper is very important tool for coordinating Kafka cluster amd choose randomly as leader in cluster which is very important with out disturbing the cluster **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** I haven't seen any bad things in zookeeper **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some time zookeeper service will goes down in small cluster ### 27. Using Zookeeper for Kafka and Atlas **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** We use mainly zookeeper for Kafka and looks fine. We haven't came across with some challenges which stop us to use this service. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Nothing that I can think of but maybe build-in high-availability. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using behind the Kafka and Atlas services. ### 28. ZooKeeper as a centralized configuration store **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** We used it as a centralized system, it was very useful to us. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** We didn't have a problem with configuration and maintenance, I couldn't say anything bad. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Zookeeper is very useful for large systems, we used it to store configuration files. ### 29. Zookeeper service is efficient and light weight **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Easy maintenance and high availability makes it compatible with other big data services **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Zookeeper is mandatory service for hbase and kafka **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Zookeeper helps in maintaing kafka and hbase, also it is easy to maintain and light weight for servers ### 30. Works! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Good for python amd nodejs services since it has good libraries to make use of. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Poor documentation and difficult to implement in java **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** Works well and meets the requirements **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used for service discovery in our college project involving microservices. ### 31. Zookeeper for sharing properties **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Sharing properties between servers and pretty light weight as well **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Nothing as of now. I have never faced anu issue while using this **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using sharing properties between servers for creating shorl url ### 32. Message system **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Configuration was simple and easy. It is customizable, and once you get it up and running it really doesn't need supervision. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Felt the Rabbit MQ had the same features **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used for Ordered messaging system ### 33. Its fabulous thing to maintain big data tool stack **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Most liked this is mention kafka brockers and partition with its offset. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Some times its give a meta data exceptions while connecting multiple connection. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving to read streaming data through kafka,for using of zookeeper. ### 34. Senior Customer Operations Engineer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** I can store configurations, distributed, and safely, and can use ZK as a single-source-of-truth **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Sometimes the authentication / session handling can be buggy, and reconnecting can take some time **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kafka related issues, like KAFKA-2729 ### 35. Very easy to maintains **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Zookeeper is used to maintaining the configuration like DB config, URL paths, names and etc.. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** If you maintain it properly it's working good **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some time it reduces build time ### 36. It's good for developer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** I have used Apache Zookeeper for handling the distributed coordination requirements in several distributed systems that I have developed **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Configuration part have very difficulties **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kafka ### 37. Zookeeper is the one master for all **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Most effective way to manage distributed systems **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** UI could be much more simplified and user friendly **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing distributed systems have become much more easier ### 38. Thank you **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** I think what I like best is that it’s very easy to use **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** I can’t recall anything that I can describe as bad about Zookeeper **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** My only advise is to try it for your company and see if it works good for you! **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can easily develop but also maintain a lot of configuration info and other things ### 39. Very good experience while using zookeeper. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2020 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Synchronized, Serialization, ordered messages, speed, scalability **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Virtual network, disks change, no migration, node count **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Zookeeper is fast, reliable, Atomocity ### 40. Highly Recommend for all your distribution needs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jasmyn d. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** I love how intuitive it is. I was able to figure out a lot of it on my own and once I got the hang of it found it very easy to use. Overall a very enjoyable experience, would certainly recommend. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** The installation process was a little lengthy and the reading of the necessary documentation was a little tedious and arguably unnecessary. **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** Take your time to get familiar with the product before you give up on it. Like any other service you need to take your time to get a hang of everything it offers, you won't regret it. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a great way to combat needed bug fixes as this is something that is frequently overlooked so having a service that specializes in it saves a lot of time allowing us to redistribute our time and resources more effectively. This is particularly helpful when managing your own business and having to be even more cautious about where you are spending your time. ### 41. Distributed coordination with Zookeeper **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Supun N. | Analyst/Programmer, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Zookeeper is a single software component which can provide solutions for all the distributed coordination requirements ranging from leader election, service discovery, and distributed cache. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** Although Zookeeper can be used to solve almost all the distributed coordination requirements, it's APIs are very primitive and hence often requires more code to be written for getting a task done even for the standard tasks. But this can be overcome by using Zookeeper with Apache curator. **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** Don't use Zookeeper APIs directly, but use it with Curator. This will make your life much easier. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used Apache Zookeeper for handling the distributed coordination requirements in several distributed systems that I have developed. We choose Zookeeper because it is a mature opensource product which is wide used in industry. ### 42. Best Free Key Store Service for Distributed Systems **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steven B. | Associate Software Engineer, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2018 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Zookeeper is open source, tried and tested for many many years, so it has a lot of documentation, and has a very large amount of room for scaling. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** There is a bit of a learning curve to zookeeper, as managing znodes isn't the easiest thing to start with. We created a visual GUI to manage nodes at one point with Electron. **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** While there is somewhat of a learning curve, the value gained from using it is uncanny. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Zookeeper allows us to keep metadata distributed across systems so that we don't have a single point of failure. ### 43. Reliable cluster co-ordinaton service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pankaj R. | QA Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Zookeeper provide us high performance coordination service for distributed applications. Zookeeper nodes store their data in hierarchical name space, like tree data structure. Various benefits of zookeeper are Ordered messages, simple distribution coordination process,synchorization, reliability **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** If we want to do service discovery, other solutions like consul have it baked in, with health check in loops.limited support for cross cluster scenarios . Zookeeper may however help with scalability and perhaps cross data center **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** It holds multiple program together. It helps distributed systems to reduce thier management complexity ### 44. ZooKeeper Review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sara M. | Exercise Specialist, Medical Practice, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** We have offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale and Mountain View so it is a great tool to keep organized with our team members that sit down at one of the other locations. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** I can't say I use it a lot, but I do find that it does not sync very fast. A lot of refreshing **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it for sharing client profiles & team meeting information, 2 week challenges. Better than documents getting lost in email ### 45. Hard to administer **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** It’s easy to get going and integrates well with the Apache stack **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** It’s hard to administer and make production ready. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use it as a KV backend for Kafka ### 46. A good apache service for high availability **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2018 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** It is open source. We use it for solr index server and it easily maintains the distributed server which share the data. Once its installed there is not much issues. It works like a beauty. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** it is not easy to start using. There is a learning curve. sometime the error is not very easily understandable. **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** dont get bogged down by the set up time. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have solr index which keeps indexing we are using zookeeper for that ### 47. Zookeeper to manage Storm **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2017 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** It is customizable, and once you get it up and running it really doesn't need supervision. Once we overcame the permissions issues with getting zookeeper to manage our nodes in a lab environment where we did not have root access, we did not have to touch zookeeper for the duration of our research project. It took care of our storm cluster, balancing workloads and restarting nodes who died without issue. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** It is difficult to use in an individual user environment. It requires a lot of integration done by someone with root permissions to get zookeeper to run in a lab clustered environment. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were using it as a cluster manager to manage Storm nodes for an undergraduate research project. ### 48. Good tool to manage applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2017 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** Reliable updates of configuration in cluster. Monitoring of nodes status. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** It is not really light weight. You will need to maintain a pretty big stack. **Recommendations to others considering ZooKeeper:** You can use it if you need reliable communication between nodes. Though if you need more complex message structure you can look at solutions like RabbitMQ and Redis. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used Zookeeper along with Kafka, so Kafka requires it. But you can use it to coming between your nodes. As a heartbeat checker for example. ### 49. Manage large set of data with Zookeper **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2017 **What do you like best about ZooKeeper?** ZooKeeper provides an infrastructure for cross-node synchronization and can be used by applications to ensure that tasks across the cluster are serialized or synchronized. **What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?** 1.Adding New ZooKeeper Servers Can Lead to Data Loss 2.The ZooKeeper server cannot be migrated from version 3.4 to 3.3, then back to 3.4, without user intervention. **What problems is ZooKeeper solving and how is that benefiting you?** Architecting a distributed system is not a trivial problem; it is very prone to race conditions, deadlocks, and inconsistency. Making cluster coordination fast and scalable is just as hard as making it reliable. That’s where Apache ZooKeeper, a coordination service that gives you the tools you need to write correct distributed applications, comes in handy. ## ZooKeeper Discussions - [Can zookeeper be used as database.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/25552-can-zookeeper-be-used-as-database) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Does Kafka still need ZooKeeper?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/does-kafka-still-need-zookeeper) - 1 comment - [View ZooKeeper pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/zookeeper/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-19+09%3A58%3A47+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=05d658ec-72c8-4008-b9f9-782ee428eb7c&secure%5Btoken%5D=f8afebf492abce416ba6a343e2d2fc7aa82156cf3bbba6319ce1d1d3aea6ba9d&format=llm_user) ## Top ZooKeeper Alternatives - [HashiCorp Consul](https://www.g2.com/products/hashicorp-consul/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (20 reviews) - [Eureka](https://www.g2.com/products/netflix-eureka/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (14 reviews) - [Docker](https://www.g2.com/products/docker-inc-docker/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (289 reviews)