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ZooKeeper Reviews & Product Details

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

6 months

Return on Investment

28 months

User Insights

Average based on 99 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

6 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$
Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism
UL
Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Apache Kafka Zookeeper"
4/5
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

Not as such, I have a overall satisfactory experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yusef M.
YM
Yusef M.
Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Apache Zookeeper is great"
3.5/5
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

poor documentation on that time. but now it's better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Verified User in Computer Software
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Zookeeper review for leader election in a database cluster."
4/5
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

I didn't quite like the limitation of nodes in. zookeeper cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harshal C.
HC
Harshal C.
Senior Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"ZooKeeper for Distributed system"
4/5
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

But also try to eliminate race conditions and complexities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Raviprakash D.
RD
Raviprakash D.
Senior Software Professional
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Get data distribution"
2.5/5
What do you like best about ZooKeeper?

Get data fast retrieve and keep record in index way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

Need to proceed for each and every new file change Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Verified User in Financial Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Happy with Zookeeper"
4/5
What do you like best about ZooKeeper?

We are using zookeeper with kafka clusters. Really it makes us to focus more on our business logic instead of indulging in maintaining & debugging clusters all times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

Sometimes broker got disconnected & doesn't bind up automatically until we restart the broker again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arpit G.
AG
Arpit G.
Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"It's too good in the distribut environment"
4/5
What do you like best about ZooKeeper?

All the help is available in the stack overflow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

Need to more documents about the zookeeper Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"It is one of the most amazing"
4.5/5
What do you like best about ZooKeeper?

Zookeeper which it runs in background & it which communicates with nodes & fault recovery ... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

If it have UI it is good for using now giving command line it some difficult . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gaurav Y.
GY
Gaurav Y.
Senior Big Data Developer
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"My Use of Zookeeper"
4.5/5
What do you like best about ZooKeeper?

Updating the node’s status, Failure Recovery, speed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ZooKeeper?

Migration not possible, disk change, we cannot scale in Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"My experience with ZooKeeper"
4/5
What do you like best about ZooKeeper?

It is best with the shared configuration and cloud management. Maintenance is easy and it is a very lightweight service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 repetitive commands. The installation process is too lengthy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Questions about ZooKeeper? Ask real users or explore answers from the community

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Ivan Z.
IZ
Ivan Zolotaryov
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Last activity over 6 years ago

What is the best way to upload configuration and is there any 3ed party program for uploading files?

Prabhunath Y.
PY
Prabhunath Yadav
•
Last activity almost 6 years ago

Can zookeeper be used as database.

Pricing Insights

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

6 months

Return on Investment

28 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$
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