March 27, 2009

27 March 2009 - Apache ZooKeeper 3.1.1 released

The Apache ZooKeeper team is proud to announce Apache ZooKeeper version 3.1.1.

ZooKeeper is a high-performance coordination service for distributed applications. It exposes common services - such as naming, configuration management, synchronization, and group services - in a simple interface so you don't have to write them from scratch. You can use it off-the-shelf to implement consensus, group management, leader election,
and presence protocols. And you can build on it for your own, specific needs.

If you are upgrading from version 2.2.1 on SourceForge be sure to review the 3.0.1 release notes for migration instructions.

For ZooKeeper release details and downloads, visit: http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/releases.html

ZooKeeper 3.1.1 Release Notes are at: http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/r3.1.1/releasenotes.html

Regards,

The Apache ZooKeeper Team

Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata at 03:47 PM

February 14, 2009

13 February 2009 - Apache ZooKeeper version 3.1.0 released

The Apache ZooKeeper team is proud to announce Apache ZooKeeper version 3.1.0.

ZooKeeper is a high-performance coordination service for distributed
applications. It exposes common services - such as naming, configuration
management, synchronization, and group services - in a simple interface
so you don't have to write them from scratch. You can use it
off-the-shelf to implement consensus, group management, leader election,
and presence protocols. And you can build on it for your own, specific
needs.

Key features of the 3.1.0 release:
* Quota support
* BookKeeper - a system to reliably log streams of records
* JMX for server management
* many fixes, improvements, improved documentation, etc...

A bit about BookKeeper: a system to reliably log streams of records. In
BookKeeper, servers are "bookies", log streams are "ledgers", and each
unit of a log (aka record) is a "ledger entry". BookKeeper is designed
to be reliable; bookies, the servers that store ledgers can be
byzantine, which means that some subset of the bookies can fail, corrupt
data, discard data, but as long as there are enough correctly behaving
servers the service as a whole behaves correctly; the meta data for
BookKeeper is stored in ZooKeeper.


For ZooKeeper release details and downloads, visit:
http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/releases.html

ZooKeeper 3.1.0 Release Notes are at:
http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/r3.1.0/releasenotes.html

Regards,

The ZooKeeper Team

Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata at 03:14 AM

January 24, 2008

24 January 2008 - Apache Hadoop Now TLP

Apache Hadoop is now Top Level Project (TLP) in the Apache Software Foundation with its new website : http://hadoop.apache.org/ Apache Hadoop is a software platform that lets one easily write and run applications that process vast amounts of data - it had been developed under the Apache Lucene Project.

Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata at 02:41 AM