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Tablet streaming involves asynchronous RPCs to other replicas which transfer writes. We want side-effects from streaming only within the migration stage in which the streaming was started. This is currently not guaranteed on failure. When streaming master fails (e.g. due to RPC failing), it can be that some streaming work is still alive somewhere (e.g. RPC on wire) and will have side-effects at some point later. This PR implements tracking of all operations involved in streaming which may have side-effects, which allows the topology change coordinator to fence them and wait for them to complete if they were already admitted. The tracking and fencing is implemented by using global "sessions", created for streaming of a single tablet. Session is globally identified by UUID. The identifier is assigned by the topology change coordinator, and stored in system.tablets. Sessions are created and closed based on group0 state (tablet metadata) by the barrier command sent to each replica, which we already do on transitions between stages. Also, each barrier waits for sessions which have been closed to be drained. The barrier is blocked only if there is some session with work which was left behind by unsuccessful streaming. In which case it should not be blocked for long, because streaming process checks often if the guard was left behind and stops if it was. This mechanism of tracking is fault-tolerant: session id is stored in group0, so coordinator can make progress on failover. The barriers guarantee that session exists on all replicas, and that it will be closed on all replicas. Closes scylladb/scylladb#15847 * github.com:scylladb/scylladb: test: tablets: Add test for failed streaming being fenced away error_injection: Introduce poll_for_message() error_injection: Make is_enabled() public api: Add API to kill connection to a particular host range_streamer: Do not block topology change barriers around streaming range_streamer, tablets: Do not keep token metadata around streaming tablets: Fail gracefully when migrating tablet has no pending replica storage_service, api: Add API to disable tablet balancing storage_service, api: Add API to migrate a tablet storage_service, raft topology: Run streaming under session topology guard storage_service, tablets: Use session to guard tablet streaming tablets: Add per-tablet session id field to tablet metadata service: range_streamer: Propagate topology_guard to receivers streaming: Always close the rpc::sink storage_service: Introduce concept of a topology_guard storage_service: Introduce session concept tablets: Fix topology_metadata_guard holding on to the old erm docs: Document the topology_guard mechanism
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++20 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 APIs - CQL and Thrift. 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 the ScyllaDB open source.
- The developers mailing list is for developers and people interested in following the development of ScyllaDB to discuss technical topics.