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Consul vs Eureka vs Zookeeper: What are the differences?
Consul is a service discovery framework with a REST interface and some features such as health checking, service segmentation with its own internal distributed key-value store. Consul includes service discovery, but also rich health checking, locking, Key/value, multi-datacenter federation, an event system. Eureka – A service discovery tool, the architecture is primarily client/server, with clients mainly using embedded SDK to register and discover services. A service locator used as part of Netflix's load balancers and failovers. Zookeeper –Apache Zookeeper is a distributed key-value store which can be used as the basis to implement service discovery. Mostly a common-purpose distributed key/value store used for service-discovery in conjunction.
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Pros of Consul
- Great service discovery infrastructure60
- Health checking35
- Distributed key-value store29
- Monitoring26
- High-availability23
- Web-UI12
- Token-based acls10
- Gossip clustering6
- Dns server5
- Not Java3
- Docker integration1
Pros of Eureka
- Easy setup and integration with spring-cloud21
- Web ui9
- Monitoring8
- Health checking8
- Circuit breaker7
- Netflix battle tested components6
- Service discovery6
- Open Source4
Pros of Zookeeper
- High performance ,easy to generate node specific config11
- Java8
- Kafka support8
- Spring Boot Support5
- Supports extensive distributed IPC3
- Curator2
- Used in ClickHouse2
- Supports DC/OS2
- Used in Hadoop1
- Embeddable In Java Service1
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What is Consul?
Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.
What is Eureka?
Eureka is a REST (Representational State Transfer) based service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for locating services for the purpose of load balancing and failover of middle-tier servers.
What is Zookeeper?
A centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed applications.
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What are some alternatives to Consul, Eureka, and Zookeeper?
etcd
etcd is a distributed key value store that provides a reliable way to store data across a cluster of machines. It’s open-source and available on GitHub. etcd gracefully handles master elections during network partitions and will tolerate machine failure, including the master.
SkyDNS
SkyDNS is a distributed service for announcement and discovery of services. It leverages Raft for high-availability and consensus, and utilizes DNS queries to discover available services. This is done by leveraging SRV records in DNS, with special meaning given to subdomains, priorities and weights (more info here: http://blog.gopheracademy.com/skydns).
Ambassador
Map services to arbitrary URLs in a single, declarative YAML file. Configure routes with CORS support, circuit breakers, timeouts, and more. Replace your Kubernetes ingress controller. Route gRPC, WebSockets, or HTTP.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.