Apache Avro VS Apache ZooKeeper

Apache AVRO [1] is one but it has been largely replaced by Parquet [2] which is a hybrid row/columnar format

[1] https://avro.apache.org/

The most common format for describing schema in this scenario is Apache Avro.

I am testing a new schema registry which loads and retrieves different kinds of avro schemas. In the process of testing, I need to create a bunch of different types of avro schemas. As it involves a lot of permutations, I decided to create the schema programmatically.I am using the apache avro SchemaBuilder to do so.

Other serialization alternatives have a schema validation option: e.g., Avro, Kryo and Protocol Buffers. Interestingly enough, gRPC uses Protobuf to offer RPC across distributed components:

Apache Avro is a data serialization system, for more information visit Apache Avro

Once things like JSON became more popular Apache Avro appeared. You can define Avro files which can then be generated into Python, Java C, Ruby, etc.. classes.

Avro, a data serialization system based on JSON schemas.

Supporting multiple versions of an event schema is a solved problem. Apache Avro with a published schema hash in a message header is one solution.

https://avro.apache.org/

Apache ZooKeeper — a distributed coordination, synchronization, and configuration service (written in Java);

To use Kafka, we also need to deploy a service that keeps configuration informations such as Zookeeper.

Failure Detection and Recovery It’s not enough to have backup systems. It’s also crucial to detect failures quickly. Modern systems employ monitoring tools and rely on distributed coordination systems such as Zookeeper or etcd to identify faults in real-time: once detected, recovery mechanisms are triggered to restore the service.

zookeeper: is (was?) used for secrets management. it was also used as a basic health check, but has been since been replaced.

You can install Kafka from https://kafka.apache.org/quickstart. Because Druid and Kafka both use Apache Zookeeper, I opted to use the Zookeeper deployment that comes with Druid, so didn’t start it with Kafka. Once running, I created two topics for me to post the data into, and for Druid to ingest from:

Please note that we use Zookeeper as the Governance Center.

Next, review deployment complexity such as DB-less versus database-backed deployments. For example, Kong does require running Cassandra or Postgres. Apigee requires Cassandra, Zookeeper, and Postgres to run, while other solutions like Express Gateway and Tyk only require Redis. Apache APISIX uses etcd as its data store, it stores and manages routing-related and plugin-related configurations in etcd in the Data Plane.

ZooKeeper, a system for coordinating distributed nodes, similar to Google's Chubby

[Unit] Description=Apache Zookeeper server Documentation=http://zookeeper.apache.org Requires=network.target remote-fs.target After=network.target remote-fs.target [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/local/kafka/bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh /usr/local/kafka/config/zookeeper.properties ExecStop=/usr/local/kafka/bin/zookeeper-server-stop.sh Restart=on-abnormal [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

ElasticJob achieves distributed coordination through ZooKeeper. In practical scenarios, users may start multiple jobs in the same project simultaneously, all of which use the same Apache Curator client. There are certain risks due to the nature of ZooKeeper and the callback method of Curator in a single event thread.