question Do I need zookeeper ? in Archives of Support Questions (Read Only) https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Do-I-need-zookeeper/m-p/222133#M63299 <P>Is Zookeeper required if HBase is NOT used?</P> Tue, 20 Jun 2017 22:16:18 GMT mayursb 2017-06-20T22:16:18Z Do I need zookeeper ? https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Do-I-need-zookeeper/m-p/222133#M63299 <P>Is Zookeeper required if HBase is NOT used?</P> Tue, 20 Jun 2017 22:16:18 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Do-I-need-zookeeper/m-p/222133#M63299 mayursb 2017-06-20T22:16:18Z Re: Do I need zookeeper ? https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Do-I-need-zookeeper/m-p/222134#M63300 <P>Hi MB, </P><P>Yes, Zookeeper is used by a lot of components (for High Availability purpose), not only HBase. It is a mandatory and vital component.</P> Tue, 20 Jun 2017 22:19:05 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Do-I-need-zookeeper/m-p/222134#M63300 pvillard 2017-06-20T22:19:05Z Re: Do I need zookeeper ? https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Do-I-need-zookeeper/m-p/222135#M63301 <P>Maybe.</P><P>ZooKeeper is used for a variety of systems in HDP for high-availability and distributed locking scenarios. For example, high-availability in HDFS with automatic failover requires ZooKeeper.</P> Tue, 20 Jun 2017 22:20:21 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Do-I-need-zookeeper/m-p/222135#M63301 elserj 2017-06-20T22:20:21Z