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I am trying to understand ZooKeeper, how it works and what it does. And I am totally confused. Is there any application which is comparable to ZooKeeper?

If you know, then how would you describe ZooKeeper to a layman. (Considering I am one)

I have tried apache wiki, zookeeper sourceforge...but I am still not able to relate to it. Any help would be appreciated!

I just read thru http://zookeeper.sourceforge.net/index.sf.shtml, so aren't there more services like this? Is it as simple as just replicating a server service?

Thanks!!
- Ivar

+2  A: 

You may be interested in the recently published scientific paper on ZooKeeper:

http://research.yahoo.com/node/3280

The paper also describes three use cases and comparable projects.

Thomas Koch
That's interesting! +1
zengr