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| <h1>ZooKeeper Observers</h1> |
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| <a href="#ch_Introduction">Observers: Scaling ZooKeeper Without Hurting Write Performance |
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| <a href="#sc_UsingObservers">How to use Observers</a> |
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| <h2 class="h3">Observers: Scaling ZooKeeper Without Hurting Write Performance |
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| Although ZooKeeper performs very well by having clients connect directly |
| to voting members of the ensemble, this architecture makes it hard to |
| scale out to huge numbers of clients. The problem is that as we add more |
| voting members, the write performance drops. This is due to the fact that |
| a write operation requires the agreement of (in general) at least half the |
| nodes in an ensemble and therefore the cost of a vote can increase |
| significantly as more voters are added. |
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| We have introduced a new type of ZooKeeper node called |
| an <em>Observer</em> which helps address this problem and |
| further improves ZooKeeper's scalability. Observers are non-voting members |
| of an ensemble which only hear the results of votes, not the agreement |
| protocol that leads up to them. Other than this simple distinction, |
| Observers function exactly the same as Followers - clients may connect to |
| them and send read and write requests to them. Observers forward these |
| requests to the Leader like Followers do, but they then simply wait to |
| hear the result of the vote. Because of this, we can increase the number |
| of Observers as much as we like without harming the performance of votes. |
| </p> |
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| Observers have other advantages. Because they do not vote, they are not a |
| critical part of the ZooKeeper ensemble. Therefore they can fail, or be |
| disconnected from the cluster, without harming the availability of the |
| ZooKeeper service. The benefit to the user is that Observers may connect |
| over less reliable network links than Followers. In fact, Observers may be |
| used to talk to a ZooKeeper server from another data center. Clients of |
| the Observer will see fast reads, as all reads are served locally, and |
| writes result in minimal network traffic as the number of messages |
| required in the absence of the vote protocol is smaller. |
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| <h2 class="h3">How to use Observers</h2> |
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| <p>Setting up a ZooKeeper ensemble that uses Observers is very simple, |
| and requires just two changes to your config files. Firstly, in the config |
| file of every node that is to be an Observer, you must place this line: |
| </p> |
| <pre class="code"> |
| peerType=observer |
| </pre> |
| <p> |
| This line tells ZooKeeper that the server is to be an Observer. Secondly, |
| in every server config file, you must add :observer to the server |
| definition line of each Observer. For example: |
| </p> |
| <pre class="code"> |
| server.1:localhost:2181:3181:observer |
| </pre> |
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| This tells every other server that server.1 is an Observer, and that they |
| should not expect it to vote. This is all the configuration you need to do |
| to add an Observer to your ZooKeeper cluster. Now you can connect to it as |
| though it were an ordinary Follower. Try it out, by running:</p> |
| <pre class="code"> |
| bin/zkCli.sh -server localhost:2181 |
| </pre> |
| <p> |
| where localhost:2181 is the hostname and port number of the Observer as |
| specified in every config file. You should see a command line prompt |
| through which you can issue commands like <em>ls</em> to query |
| the ZooKeeper service. |
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| <h2 class="h3">Example use cases</h2> |
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| <p> |
| Two example use cases for Observers are listed below. In fact, wherever |
| you wish to scale the numbe of clients of your ZooKeeper ensemble, or |
| where you wish to insulate the critical part of an ensemble from the load |
| of dealing with client requests, Observers are a good architectural |
| choice. |
| </p> |
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| <p> As a datacenter bridge: Forming a ZK ensemble between two |
| datacenters is a problematic endeavour as the high variance in latency |
| between the datacenters could lead to false positive failure detection |
| and partitioning. However if the ensemble runs entirely in one |
| datacenter, and the second datacenter runs only Observers, partitions |
| aren't problematic as the ensemble remains connected. Clients of the |
| Observers may still see and issue proposals.</p> |
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| </li> |
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| <p>As a link to a message bus: Some companies have expressed an |
| interest in using ZK as a component of a persistent reliable message |
| bus. Observers would give a natural integration point for this work: a |
| plug-in mechanism could be used to attach the stream of proposals an |
| Observer sees to a publish-subscribe system, again without loading the |
| core ensemble. |
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