Re: Helix with Hazelcast for in-memory data storage

[kishore g <g....@gmail.com>]

+ Helix-dev

Hi Shalakha,

We found that Hazelcast did not provide all the guarantees provided by
Zookeeper. As much as we would like to have a version of Helix that is
decoupled from Zookeeper, we haven't found an alternative yet.

thanks,
Kishore G

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 2:08 AM, Shalakha Sidmul <Sh...@1eq.com>
wrote:

> Hello sir,
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> We, at eQ-Technologic Pvt. Ltd., are working on a project which involves
> management of resources in a cluster environment.
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> For example, connections to third party applications are resources for us.
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> We also need an in-memory data store which is faster as compared to
> Zookeeper.
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> Our exploration led us to Hazelcast which also provides a pretty robust
> task execution framework. (Task execution in cluster environment is another
> major requirement we have)
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> We have tried and succeeded in using Helix for management of connections.
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> In the following issues on JIRA, your comments suggest that you will soon
> have Helix backed by Hazelcast/Infinispan and remove the dependency on
> Zookeeper.
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> 1.       https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HELIX-70
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> 2.       https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-2939
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> (Both issues are about 4 years old.)
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> My question is, has it been implemented yet?
> If not, is it under consideration?
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> If yes, where can I find it?
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> Is there a way to de-couple Helix and Zookeeper?
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> Regards,
>
> Shalakha Sidmul
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