I considered it, but it requires Apache ZooKeeper, which is yet another thing that needs to be configured and maintained. Not a fan of Java-based software either, to be honest.
It makes me sad to see this is still something people say. I hope you reconsider this sentiment and investigate some of the really great Java-based software out there, especially Zookeeper and Kafka.
It's worth checking out how Zookeeper and Kafka did in aphyr's testing:
*Note: never more than 31GB
Yet so many of the services you use run on it.