How does Zookeeper retrive the consumer offsets from __consumer_offsets topic?
问题 This is a followup question to "Where do zookeeper store Kafka cluster and related information?" based on the answer provided by Armando Ballaci. Now it's clear that consumer offsets are stored in the Kafka cluster in a special topic called __consumer_offsets . That's fine, I am just wondering how does the retrieval of these offsets work. Topics are not like RDBS over which we can query for arbitrary data based on a certain predicate. Ex - if the data is stored in an RDBMS, probably a query