# Qihoo360/QConf

Qihoo Distributed Configuration Management System

Repository: https://github.com/Qihoo360/QConf
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/qconf
Language: C++
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: configuration, configuration-management, configuration-file, configuration-storage, configuration-cache, qconf, zookeeper
Last push: 2024-02-02T08:35:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4184, "days_push": 943, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1856, forks 529 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:44.903084+00:00)

## What it is
QConf is a distributed configuration management system built on ZooKeeper that replaces traditional configuration files with centrally managed, real-time synchronized configuration. It runs a local agent that caches configuration and exposes simple access APIs across many languages.

## Use cases
- manage distributed service configuration centrally
- push config changes to all machines in real time
- replace static config files with a config center
- cache and read configuration with low latency
- manage zookeeper-backed configuration with multi-language clients

## When to choose
- you already run ZooKeeper and need a config layer on top
- you need multi-language client support (C/C++, PHP, Python, Java, Go, Node)
- you need very low-latency local config reads with real-time updates

## When to avoid
- you want a modern config center with a built-in web UI (e.g. etcd/Consul/Nacos-based tools)
- you need a fully maintained project with active development
- you cannot deploy local agents on every client machine

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: configuration-management, caching, sdk
- domain: developer-tools, microservices, backend
- platform: cpp, python, php, jvm, go, lua, cli
- tags: zookeeper, distributed-configuration, config-center, agent-based, real-time-sync, devops, linux, nodejs

## Member repositories
- Qihoo360/QConf (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:44.903084+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:16:37.946935+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Qihoo360/QConf (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:44.903084+00:00, sha 9221000b700b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.