I considered it, but it requires Apache ZooKeeper, which is yet another thing that needs to be configured and maintained. Not a fan of Java-based software either, to be honest.
Not a fan of Java-based software either, to be honest.
It makes me sad to see this is still something people say. I hope you reconsider this sentiment and investigate some of the really great Java-based software out there, especially Zookeeper and Kafka.
It's worth checking out how Zookeeper and Kafka did in aphyr's testing:
Every Java-based backed service I have come across, be it ElasticSearch, LogStash, Hadoop or PuppetDB, have all been memory-hogging beasts. Part of this is due to the GC, which tends to use more heap space than the program actually needs. Java is fast, but I have yet to see anyone claim it's lightweight.
Kafka seems to suffer from lack of partition tolerance, by the way, according to Aphyr. Not happy about the fact that it will just wipe a partition upon re-electing a new leader.
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I considered it, but it requires Apache ZooKeeper, which is yet another thing that needs to be configured and maintained. Not a fan of Java-based software either, to be honest.
It makes me sad to see this is still something people say. I hope you reconsider this sentiment and investigate some of the really great Java-based software out there, especially Zookeeper and Kafka.
It's worth checking out how Zookeeper and Kafka did in aphyr's testing:
http://aphyr.com/posts/291-call-me-maybe-zookeeper
http://aphyr.com/posts/293-call-me-maybe-kafka
Every Java-based backed service I have come across, be it ElasticSearch, LogStash, Hadoop or PuppetDB, have all been memory-hogging beasts. Part of this is due to the GC, which tends to use more heap space than the program actually needs. Java is fast, but I have yet to see anyone claim it's lightweight.
The worst part is "let's statically preallocate* the heap size like it's 1975".
*Note: never more than 31GB
Kafka seems to suffer from lack of partition tolerance, by the way, according to Aphyr. Not happy about the fact that it will just wipe a partition upon re-electing a new leader.
Yet so many of the services you use run on it.
Not sure that's an argument for anything. A lot of businesses build on crappy software.