In some cases we unnecessarily convert to string which
causes a copy. In other we convert without calling
GetStringLength which causes iteration to dermine length
which is already known. In some cases we do even both.
This commit fixes that.
When a vector store node becomes unreachable, a client request sent
before the keep-alive timer fires would hang until the CQL query
timeout was reached.
This occurred because the HTTP request writes to the TCP buffer and then
waits for a response. While data is in the buffer, TCP retransmissions
prevent the keep-alive timer from detecting the dead connection.
This patch resolves the issue by setting the `TCP_USER_TIMEOUT` socket
option, which applies an effective timeout to TCP retransmissions,
allowing the connection to fail faster.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#27388
When a CQL vector search request timed out, the underlying ANN query was
not aborted and continued to run. This happened because the abort source
was not being signaled upon request expiration.
This commit ensures the ANN query is aborted when the CQL request times out
preventing unnecessary resource consumption.
The connection timeout was 2 minutes and the keep-alive
timeout was 11 minutes. If a vector store node became unreachable, these
long timeouts caused significant delays before the system could recover,
negatively impacting high availability.
This change aligns both timeouts with the `request_timeout`
configuration, which defaults to 10 seconds. This allows for much
faster failure detection and recovery, ensuring that unresponsive nodes
are failed over from more quickly.
This commit introduces TLS encryption support for vector store connections.
A new configuration option is added:
- vector_store_encryption_options.truststore: path to the trust store file
To enable secure connections, use the https:// scheme in the
vector_store_primary_uri/vector_store_secondary_uri configuration options.
Fixes: VECTOR-327
For an `/ann` search request, a 5xx server response does not
indicate that the node is down. It can signify a transient state, such
as the index full scan being in progress.
Previously, treating a 503 error as a node fault would cause the node
to be incorrectly marked as down, for example, when a new index was
being created. This commit ensures that such errors are treated as
transient search failures, not node failures.
The response was incorrectly parsed as a plain string and compared
directly with C++ string. However, the body contains a JSON string,
which includes escaped quotes that caused comparison failures.
A Vector Store node is now considered down if it returns an HTTP 5xx status.
This can happen, for example, if the node fails to
connect to the database or has not completed its initial full scan.
The logic for marking a node as 'up' is also enhanced. A node is now
only considered up when its status is 'SERVING'.
The maximum backoff delay for status checking now depends on the
`read_request_timeout_in_ms` configuration option. The delay is set
to twice the value of this parameter.
This exception should only occur due to internal errors, not client or external issues.
If triggered, it indicates an internal problem. Therefore, we notify about this exception
using on_internal_error_noexcept.
Introduces logic to mark clients that fail to answer an ANN request as
"down". Down clients are omitted from further requests until they
successfully respond to a health check.
Health checks for down clients are performed in the background using the
`status` endpoint, with an exponential backoff retry policy ranging
from 100ms to 20s.
To unify error handling, the low-level client methods now return
`std::expected` instead of throwing exceptions. This allows for
consistent and explicit error propagation from the client up to the
caller.
The relevant error types have been moved to a new `vector_search/error.hh`
header to centralize their definitions.
This refactoring extracts low-level client logic into a new, dedicated
`client` class. The new class is responsible for connecting to the
server and serializing requests.
This change prepares for extending the `vector_store_client` to check
node status via the `api/v1/status` endpoint.
`/ann` Response deserialization remains in the `vector_store_client` as it
is schema-dependent.
