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Right now, service levels are migrated in one group0 command and auth is migrated in the next one. This has a bad effect on the group0 state reload logic - modifying service levels in group0 causes the effective service levels cache to be recalculated, and to do so we need to fetch information about all roles. If the reload happens after SL upgrade and before auth upgrade, the query for roles will be directed to the legacy auth tables in system_auth - and the query, being a potentially remote query, has a timeout. If the query times out, it will throw an exception which will break the group0 apply fiber and the node will need to be restarted to bring it back to work. In order to solve this issue, make sure that the service level module does not start populating and using the service level cache until both service levels and auth are migrated to raft. This is achieved by adding the check both to the cache population logic and the effective service level getter - they now look at service level's accessor new method, `can_use_effective_service_level_cache` which takes a look at the auth version. Fixes: scylladb/scylladb#24963 Should be backported to all versions which support upgrade to topology over raft - the issue described here may put the cluster into a state which is difficult to get out of (group0 apply fiber can break on multiple nodes, which necessitates their restart). - (cherry picked from commit2bb800c004) - (cherry picked from commit3a082d314c) Parent PR: #25188 Closes scylladb/scylladb#25285 * github.com:scylladb/scylladb: test: sl: verify that legacy auth is not queried in sl to raft upgrade qos: don't populate effective service level cache until auth is migrated to raft
Scylla
What is Scylla?
Scylla is the real-time big data database that is API-compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB. Scylla embraces a shared-nothing approach that increases throughput and storage capacity to realize order-of-magnitude performance improvements and reduce hardware costs.
For more information, please see the ScyllaDB web site.
Build Prerequisites
Scylla is fairly fussy about its build environment, requiring very recent versions of the C++23 compiler and of many libraries to build. The document HACKING.md includes detailed information on building and developing Scylla, but to get Scylla building quickly on (almost) any build machine, Scylla offers a frozen toolchain, This is a pre-configured Docker image which includes recent versions of all the required compilers, libraries and build tools. Using the frozen toolchain allows you to avoid changing anything in your build machine to meet Scylla's requirements - you just need to meet the frozen toolchain's prerequisites (mostly, Docker or Podman being available).
Building Scylla
Building Scylla with the frozen toolchain dbuild is as easy as:
$ git submodule update --init --force --recursive
$ ./tools/toolchain/dbuild ./configure.py
$ ./tools/toolchain/dbuild ninja build/release/scylla
For further information, please see:
- Developer documentation for more information on building Scylla.
- Build documentation on how to build Scylla binaries, tests, and packages.
- Docker image build documentation for information on how to build Docker images.
Running Scylla
To start Scylla server, run:
$ ./tools/toolchain/dbuild ./build/release/scylla --workdir tmp --smp 1 --developer-mode 1
This will start a Scylla node with one CPU core allocated to it and data files stored in the tmp directory.
The --developer-mode is needed to disable the various checks Scylla performs at startup to ensure the machine is configured for maximum performance (not relevant on development workstations).
Please note that you need to run Scylla with dbuild if you built it with the frozen toolchain.
For more run options, run:
$ ./tools/toolchain/dbuild ./build/release/scylla --help
Testing
See test.py manual.
Scylla APIs and compatibility
By default, Scylla is compatible with Apache Cassandra and its API - CQL. There is also support for the API of Amazon DynamoDB™, which needs to be enabled and configured in order to be used. For more information on how to enable the DynamoDB™ API in Scylla, and the current compatibility of this feature as well as Scylla-specific extensions, see Alternator and Getting started with Alternator.
Documentation
Documentation can be found here. Seastar documentation can be found here. User documentation can be found here.
Training
Training material and online courses can be found at Scylla University. The courses are free, self-paced and include hands-on examples. They cover a variety of topics including Scylla data modeling, administration, architecture, basic NoSQL concepts, using drivers for application development, Scylla setup, failover, compactions, multi-datacenters and how Scylla integrates with third-party applications.
Contributing to Scylla
If you want to report a bug or submit a pull request or a patch, please read the contribution guidelines.
If you are a developer working on Scylla, please read the developer guidelines.
Contact
- The community forum and Slack channel are for users to discuss configuration, management, and operations of ScyllaDB.
- The developers mailing list is for developers and people interested in following the development of ScyllaDB to discuss technical topics.