Other required components

The following table presents a couple of other required components:

Component 

Description

Zookeeper

Apache Zookeeper is a highly reliable distributed coordination service

Metadata Storage

MySQL and PostgreSQL are the popular RDBMSes used to keep track of all segments, supervisors, tasks, and configurations

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