Apache Kafka And Zookeeper Now Supported On IBM i

September 9, 2020 Alex Woodie

IBM quietly added support for two open source technologies, Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper, on IBM i. Both projects are critical elements of emerging distributed computing frameworks in the big data space, although they have very different uses.

Apache Zookeeper is a core underlying technology for enabling distributed computing and ensuring that applications running atop Zookeeper are highly resilient. The software functions as a centralized service for keeping track of nodes in a cluster, and for synchronizing data and services among the different nodes.

All of the nodes in a Zookeeper cluster have access to a shared hierarchical namespace. If …