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Tag: Network Partition

Apache ZooKeeper's Strategy for Handling Network Partition

TL;DR

  • Zookeeper always avoids Split Brain problem with it’s majority rule for quorum
  • When network partition happens, the group with the majority of nodes (if it exists) can continue to serve read and write requests
  • When network partition happens, the group with minority nodes can not continue to serve write requests but can continue to serve read requests with client and server properly configured. It is obvious that read requests in this case will return stale values.
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