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ZooKeeper

Apache Druid uses Apache ZooKeeper (ZK) for management of current cluster state.

Minimum ZooKeeper versions​

Apache Druid supports ZooKeeper versions 3.5.x and above.

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Note: Starting with Apache Druid 0.22.0, support for ZooKeeper 3.4.x has been removed Starting with Apache Druid 31.0.0, support for Zookeeper-based segment loading has been removed.

ZooKeeper Operations​

The operations that happen over ZK are

  1. Coordinator leader election
  2. Segment "publishing" protocol from Historical
  3. Overlord leader election
  4. Overlord and Middle Manager task management

Coordinator Leader Election​

We use the Curator LeaderLatch recipe to perform leader election at path

${druid.zk.paths.coordinatorPath}/_COORDINATOR

Segment "publishing" protocol from Historical and Realtime​

The announcementsPath and liveSegmentsPath are used for this.

All Historical processes publish themselves on the announcementsPath, specifically, they will create an ephemeral znode at

${druid.zk.paths.announcementsPath}/${druid.host}

Which signifies that they exist. They will also subsequently create a permanent znode at

${druid.zk.paths.liveSegmentsPath}/${druid.host}

And as they load up segments, they will attach ephemeral znodes that look like

${druid.zk.paths.liveSegmentsPath}/${druid.host}/_segment_identifier_

Processes like the Coordinator and Broker can then watch these paths to see which processes are currently serving which segments.