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ZooKeeper provides an event like synchronization mechanism, which notifies the clients upon state change on the server. This mechanism leads to very inefficient implementation of synchronization objects. We propose a new solution to this problem. The solution is to handle a sequence of client operations completely on the server through a generic API. We have developed a prototype that allows very efficient implementation of synchronization objects. The solution requires a deterministic multi-threaded server. Experiments show the significant gain in efficiency of our solution on producer-consumer queues and synchronization barriers.
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Kalantari, B., Schiper, A. (2013). Addressing the ZooKeeper Synchronization Inefficiency. In: Frey, D., Raynal, M., Sarkar, S., Shyamasundar, R.K., Sinha, P. (eds) Distributed Computing and Networking. ICDCN 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7730. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35668-1_31
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