CassIO (the library backing LangChain's `langchain_community.vectorstores.Cassandra` integration) issues the following DDL during schema setup to create a metadata index:
```sql
CREATE CUSTOM INDEX IF NOT EXISTS eidx_metadata_s_<table>
ON <keyspace>.<table> (ENTRIES(metadata_s))
USING 'org.apache.cassandra.index.sai.StorageAttachedIndex';
```
ScyllaDB does not support Cassandra's StorageAttachedIndex (SAI) for non-vector columns and previously rejected this statement with:
```
StorageAttachedIndex (SAI) is only supported on vector columns; use a secondary index for non-vector columns
```
This blocks seamless migration of existing LangChain/CassIO applications from Cassandra to ScyllaDB — applications fail during initialization before any application-level workaround can run, even when metadata filtering is not used (`metadata_indexing="none"`).
CassIO is no longer actively maintained but remains the only official LangChain integration path for Apache Cassandra over CQL, meaning existing applications will continue using this setup pattern.
Instead of rejecting the CassIO metadata-map SAI DDL, detect the pattern and rewrite it to a standard ScyllaDB secondary index on collection entries:
- **Detection**: SAI class name + single `ENTRIES` target on a non-frozen `map` column
- **Rewrite**: Clear the custom class so the index is created through the standard secondary index path (which already fully supports indexing map entries)
- **Warning**: Emit a CQL warning informing the user that SAI is not supported by ScyllaDB, a regular secondary index was created instead, and metadata filtering behavior may differ from Cassandra SAI
The rewrite is placed early in `validate_while_executing()`, before the rf-rack-validity check, so the standard secondary index code path handles all subsequent validation naturally — no code duplication.
After this change, the CassIO schema setup succeeds on ScyllaDB:
- `CREATE CUSTOM INDEX ... USING 'sai'` on `ENTRIES(metadata_s)` creates a real secondary index
- The index is functional and can accelerate metadata filtering queries
- A CQL warning makes the rewrite transparent to operators
- SAI on non-vector, non-map-entries columns is still rejected as before
- Vector SAI indexes continue to be rewritten to `vector_index` as before
- `test_sai_entries_on_map_creates_regular_index` — verifies the index is created and the warning is emitted (fully-qualified SAI class name)
- `test_sai_entries_on_map_short_name` — same with the `'sai'` short alias
- `test_sai_on_regular_column_rejected` — confirms SAI on regular scalar columns is still rejected
All 148 tests in `test_vector_index.py` and `test_secondary_index.py` pass with no regressions (125 passed, 22 xfailed, 1 skipped).
Fixes: SCYLLADB-2113
Backport: 2026.2 as this is the version where the support for SAI class needed by LangChain was added.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29981
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
cql: rewrite CassIO SAI metadata index to regular secondary index
db/config: add enable_cassio_compatibility flag
When CassIO creates a SAI ENTRIES index on a map column,
ScyllaDB now rewrites it to a regular secondary index and emits
a CQL warning. This allows LangChain/CassIO applications to work
without DDL errors.
The rewrite is gated behind the enable_cassio_compatibility flag
(disabled by default).
Refs: SCYLLADB-2113
Currently driver creates network layout (node IP addresses and ports)
from `system.local`, `system.peers`, `system.client_routes` and then
runs on assumption that this network layout is correct.
It does not check if it is.
If, for example it happens so that node ip/port (say on proxy) will not
match what driver calculated it will go unnoticed.
The goal of this feature is to provide driver host-id on SUPPORTED frame,
so that it would know which node it connected to and could make decision
wether keep connection or drop it.
- add `SCYLLA_HOST_ID` to the CQL `SUPPORTED` response
- add a regression test that hooks the Python driver handshake and
verifies the reported host id
- `python3.12 -m py_compile test/cqlpy/test_protocol_exceptions.py`
- syntax-only compile of `transport/server.cc` with the repo toolchain
flags inside `dbuild`
Refs #27452
Refs https://scylladb.atlassian.net/browse/DRIVER-610Closesscylladb/scylladb#29809
ScyllaDB has special counter columns for which atomic add/subtract
operations like `SET a = a + 1` are allowed. Such operations have not
been allowed on ordinary non-counter columns, as they would not be
properly atomic - the read an the write are separate, and concurrent
operations can have incorrect results.
This patch makes it allowed to use such atomic add/subtract operations
in *LWT* statements. Some examples:
UPDATE ... SET a = a - 1 IF a > 0
UPDATE ... SET a = a + 1 IF EXISTS
UPDATE ... SET a = a + 1 a != NULL
The row updated in the operation, and the updated column (a) should
be initialized before the update - arithmetic operations on missing
column values silently leave the column null (no error is generated).
This add/subtract operations is allowed on any numeric column -
integer or floating point of any size.
The ability of LWT to fetch the old values of a column and use it to
calculate the new value has long been available in our internal CAS
implementation - and has been in use for years in Alternator - but until
this patch it was not exposed in CQL's LWT.
This patch does not add new syntax to CQL - the "SET a = a + b"
and "SET a = a - b" syntax that already existed for counters is now
allowed for non-counters.
This is a new Scylla-only feature that does not exist in Cassandra.
Fixes#10568
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Add the record timestamp. The timestamp is extracted from the row marker
of the mutation when we write it.
When inserting a record to index, we compare it with the existing
record, and insert it only if it has newer timestamp.
Add a segment sequence number that is a global (per-shard) increasing
number that is allocated when getting a new segment for write, and is
written in buffer headers in the segment.
It is used to distinguish between buffers written to different generations
of a segment, and for recovery to break ties by keeping the record
from the newest segment.
Refs https://scylladb.atlassian.net/browse/SCYLLADB-770
no backport - logstor is a new feature
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29933
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test: logstor: add basic delete test
logstor: rewrite segment seq num from streaming
logstor: add segment sequence number
logstor: get_segment helper
logstor: compare records by timestamp
Operators need a reference for the new rule schema, its
relationship to audit_categories/audit_tables/
audit_keyspaces, and the live-update path so they can
adopt the feature without reading the source.
Refs SCYLLADB-1430
In Alternator's HTTP API, response headers can dominate bandwidth for
small payloads. The Server, Date, and Content-Type headers were sent on
every response but many clients never use them.
This patch introduces three Alternator config options:
- alternator_http_response_server_header,
- alternator_http_response_disable_date_header,
- alternator_http_response_disable_content_type_header,
which allow customizing or suppressing the respective HTTP response
headers. All three options support live update (no restart needed).
The Server header is no longer sent by default; the Date and
Content-Type defaults preserve the existing behavior.
The Server and Date header suppression uses Seastar's
set_server_header() and set_generate_date_header() APIs added in
https://github.com/scylladb/seastar/pull/3217. This patch also
fixes deprecation warnings from older Seastar HTTP APIs.
Tests are in test/alternator/test_http_headers.py.
Fixes https://scylladb.atlassian.net/browse/SCYLLADB-70Closesscylladb/scylladb#28288
Ran 'make update' to get the latest version of all dependencies needed to build docs.
Tested with 'make test' only.
Signed-off-by: Yaniv Kaul <yaniv.kaul@scylladb.com>
AI-Assisted: no, to my surprise.
Backport: not sure.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29909
This series adds IDL file comparison to the build system comparison tool and fixes CMake PCH propagation.
1. `scripts/compare_build_systems.py` only compared compilation flags, link targets, and linker settings — it did not compare IDL-generated file sets. This allowed PR #28843 to pass CI despite adding `strong_consistency/groups_manager.idl.hh` to `configure.py` but not to `idl/CMakeLists.txt`.
2. CMake's `scylla-main` target was not using the precompiled header (`stdafx.hh`), even though configure.py applies it to every source file via `-include-pch`. This caused compilation failures for files relying on transitive includes from the PCH — e.g., `sstables_loader.cc` failed with `no member named 'read_entire_stream' in namespace 'seastar::util'`.
Add a 4th comparison check to the build system comparison script: extract IDL-generated file sets from both build systems' ninja files and compare them. The extractors parse ninja build statements — configure.py side filters by build mode, CMake side handles the `|` separator for implicit outputs — and normalize to a canonical relative path for comparison.
Add the missing `strong_consistency/groups_manager.idl.hh` to `idl/CMakeLists.txt`.
Add `target_precompile_headers(scylla-main REUSE_FROM scylla-precompiled-header)` so that all sources compiled under `scylla-main` benefit from the PCH, matching configure.py's behavior.
Update documentation to reflect the new IDL comparison check.
Refs: https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/pull/29901
Refs: https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/pull/28843
No backport needed — these are build system improvements only.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29912
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
cmake: reuse precompiled header in scylla-main target
idl: add missing groups_manager.idl.hh to CMakeLists.txt
scripts: add IDL-generated file comparison to compare_build_systems
After all test suites migrated to test_config.yaml with type: Python,
the specialized suite classes (Topology, CQLApproval, Run, Tool) and
the legacy execution pipeline (find_tests, run_test, TestSuite.run,
Test.run) became unreachable. Remove all this dead code.
Deleted files:
- suite/topology.py, suite/cql_approval.py, suite/run.py, suite/tool.py
Simplified:
- base.py: remove run_test(), read_log(), TestSuite.run(),
add_test_list(), build_test_list(), all_tests(), test_count(),
SUITE_CONFIG_FILENAME, disabled/flaky test tracking, and dead
Test attributes (args, core_args, valid_exit_codes, allure_dir,
is_flaky, is_cancelled, etc.)
- python.py: remove PythonTestSuite.run(), PythonTest.run(),
_prepare_pytest_params(), pattern, test_file_ext, xmlout,
server_log, scylla_env setup, and shlex import.
Simplify run_ctx() to take no parameters.
- runner.py: remove --scylla-log-filename option,
print_scylla_log_filename fixture, SUITE_CONFIG_FILENAME import,
and suite.yaml probe in TestSuiteConfig.from_pytest_node().
- __init__.py: remove re-exports of deleted classes.
- test_config.yaml: Topology -> Python, Approval -> Python.
- conftest files: run_ctx(options=...) -> run_ctx().
- docs/dev/testing.md: update to reflect current pytest-based
architecture, log paths, and removed features.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (200K context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29613
add a segment sequence number that is a global (per-shard) increasing
number that is allocated when getting a new segment for write, and is
written in buffer headers in the segment.
this is useful when scanning a segment for ignoring buffers that belong
to an older generation of that segment.
it's also useful by creating a single ordering of all segments that
respects the compaction ordering.
on recovery, we keep the records from the newest segments among equal
records. so if a record is rewritten by compaction, the recovery will
choose the records from the new compacted segments.
discard segments by writing zeroes to the segment header.
Add the record timestamp. The timestamp is extracted from the row marker
of the mutation when we write it.
When inserting a record to index, we compare it with the existing
record, and insert it only if it has newer timestamp.
Add a 4th check that compares IDL-generated file sets between
configure.py and CMake. Previously only compilation flags, link
targets, and linker settings were compared — a missing IDL entry
(like strong_consistency/groups_manager.idl.hh in PR #28843) would
go undetected.
The extractors parse ninja build statements from both systems and
normalize to a canonical relative path (e.g. cache_temperature.dist.hh)
for comparison. configure.py outputs are filtered by mode; CMake
outputs handle the | separator for implicit outputs in ninja build
lines.
Also update the documentation to mention the new check.
The existing OCI section in admin.rst was a minimal stub that only showed
a config snippet without explaining how to actually set up connectivity.
Add documentation for:
- The OCI S3-compatible endpoint URL format (namespace + region)
- That credentials must be set explicitly via AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID /
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY using OCI Customer Secret Keys (unlike AWS,
OCI has no instance metadata fallback compatible with STS/EC2)
- A note that iam_role_arn is AWS-specific and should be omitted for OCI
Fixes: SCYLLADB-501
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29689
Alternator Streams graduated from experimental in #29604. Update the
compatibility and FAQ docs accordingly:
- Replace the "Experimental API features" section with a new
"Alternator Streams" section that lists known differences without
the experimental framing.
- Expand the alternator_streams_increased_compatibility paragraph to
explain both consequences of leaving it off (spurious no-op events
and inaccurate INSERT/MODIFY distinction) and the performance cost
of enabling it (LWT path for every write).
- Drop the stale ShardFilter limitation (now implemented).
- Replace the alternator-streams FAQ example with
strongly-consistent-tables so the multi-feature syntax example
remains useful.
Fixes SCYLLADB-462
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29695
A vector search operation in Alternator (VectorSearch option to Query)
returns items sorted by decreasing similarity to the searched vector.
Although the items are sorted by decreasing similarity scores, before
this patch the user had no way to see the values of these scores.
This patch adds a new VectorSearch option, `ReturnScores`. This option
defaults to `NONE`. But if set to `SIMILARITY`, the query will return
an array `Scores` with the same length as `Items`, which gives the
similarity score for each item.
As usual, this patch includes the implementation, the documentation,
and tests for the new feature.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Today in Alternator vector search, vectors are presented to the API as
lists of numbers. I.e., in JSON a vector is sent in requests and responses
as:
{"L": [{"N": "3.14159"}, {"N":" "6.7"}}
This format is verbose and inefficient for long vectors. Even worse,
because the "N" number format has precision guarantees in DynamoDB,
we cannot optimize the storage of such vectors by, for example, storing
the numbers as 32-bit floats. We actually store these vectors as JSON,
exactly as shown above.
So in this patch we introduce a new DynamoDB type, "FLOAT32VECTOR", for
vectors. The above vector will look like this in JSON:
{"FLOAT32VECTOR": [3.14159, 6.7]}
Note that each number is an unquoted JSON number, not a JSON string.
Importantly, the definition of the "FLOAT32VECTOR" type specifies that
components of the vector only have 32-bit precision. This means that
Scylla may store internally these vectors as lists of 32-bit floats -
not as a JSON. And indeed, this patch includes this optimization:
Top-level vector attributes are now encoded in an optimized way,
as a byte 5 (alternator_type::FLOAT32VECTOR) followed by the elements
of the vector, just 4 bytes each (the 4-byte big-endian IEEE 754
representation of each floating-point component).
This patch also includes documentation, and extensive tests that the
new "FLOAT32VECTOR" type works (which also serves as an example how to
use it in the boto3 SDK), that it is indeed encoded internally as 32-bit
floats and not wasteful JSON strings, and that vector search on such items
work. The last thing requires cooperation from the vector store, of
course - it needs to be able to understand the new optimized encoding
of vector attributes in addition to the old unoptimized one.
Note that the old unoptimized ("list of numbers") vectors are still
supported. Although not recommended for general use, some users might
still want to use the unoptimized type if they have pre-existing data
created on DynamoDB or Alternator without vector search in mind, and
the vectors already exist as lists of numbers.
Although this is less important, the new vector type "FLOAT32VECTOR"
is also allowed in a Query's QueryVector.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Before this patch, vector search always used the COSINE similarity
function. In this patch we add the ability to choose a different
similarity function when creating a new vector index (with CreateTable
or UpdateTable) by using the SimilarityFunction option. We still default
to "COSINE" if SimilarityFunction isn't specified.
Allowed similarity functions are COSINE, DOT_PRODUCT, and EUCLIDEAN.
DescribeTable can also retrieve a vector index's SimilarityFunction.
As usual, this patch also includes documentation for the new feature,
and tests. Some of the tests can run without a vector store - verifying
the API syntax and which similarity function is supported - but we
also add tests that require the vector store and check that the different
similarity functions actually sort the nearest items in the expected
order.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Before this patch, we did not have any special metrics for vector search
in Alternator. We have had count of "Query" operations, but there was no
distinction between "standard" queries - of a base table or GSI/LSI -
and vector-search queries.
This patch adds four new metrics:
* vector_search_query - counting how many Query requests are actually
vector searches.
* vector_search_query_returned_items - counting how many items were
returned by vector searches.
* vector_search_query_items_from_vs - counting how many results were
retrieved from the vector-store backend.
* vector_search_query_items_from_base_table - counting how many items
were read from the base table during vector-search queries. Some
vector search queries using SELECT=ALL_PROJECTED_ATTRIBUTES or COUNT
are optimized to not need to read items from the base table.
This patch also includes documentation for the new four metrics, and
tests that they count what we want them to count.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
The mechanics of the restore is like this
- A /storage_service/tablets/restore API is called with (keyspace, table, endpoint, bucket, manifests) parameters
- First, it populates the system_distributed.snapshot_sstables table with the data read from the manifests
- Then it emplaces a bunch of tablet transitions (of a new "restore" kind), one for each tablet
- The topology coordinator handles the "restore" transition by calling a new RESTORE_TABLET RPC against all the current tablet replicas
- Each replica handles the RPC verb by
- Reading the snapshot_sstables table
- Filtering the read sstable infos against current node and tablet being handled
- Downloading and attaching the filtered sstables
This PR includes system_distributed.snapshot_sstables table from @robertbindar and preparation work from @kreuzerkrieg that extracts raw sstables downloading and attaching from existing generic sstables loading code.
This is first step towards SCYLLADB-197 and lacks many things. In particular
- the API only works for single-DC cluster
- the caller needs to "lock" tablet boundaries with min/max tablet count
- not abortable
- no progress tracking
- sub-optimal (re-kicking API on restore will re-download everything again)
- not re-attacheable (if API node dies, restoration proceeds, but the caller cannot "wait" for it to complete via other node)
- nodes download sstables in maintenance/streaming sched gorup (should be moved to maintenance/backup)
Other follow-up items:
- have an actual swagger object specification for `backup_location`
Closes#28436Closes#28657Closes#28773Closesscylladb/scylladb#28763
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
docs: Update topology_over_raft.md with `restore` transition kind
test: Add test for backup vs migration race
test: Restore resilience test
sstables_loader: Fail tablet-restore task if not all sstables were downloaded
sstables_loader: mark sstables as downloaded after attaching
sstables_loader: return shared_sstable from attach_sstable
db: add update_sstable_download_status method
db: add downloaded column to snapshot_sstables
db: extract snapshot_sstables TTL into class constant
test: Add a test for tablet-aware restore
tablets: Implement tablet-aware cluster-wide restore
messaging: Add RESTORE_TABLET RPC verb
sstables_loader: Add method to download and attach sstables for a tablet
tablets: Add restore_config to tablet_transition_info
sstables_loader: Add restore_tablets task skeleton
test: Add rest_client helper to kick newly introduced API endpoint
api: Add /storage_service/tablets/restore endpoint skeleton
sstables_loader: Add keyspace and table arguments to manfiest loading helper
sstables_loader_helpers: just reformat the code
sstables_loader_helpers: generalize argument and variable names
sstables_loader_helpers: generalize get_sstables_for_tablet
sstables_loader_helpers: add token getters for tablet filtering
sstables_loader_helpers: remove underscores from struct members
sstables_loader: move download_sstable and get_sstables_for_tablet
sstables_loader: extract single-tablet SST filtering
sstables_loader: make download_sstable static
sstables_loader: fix formating of the new `download_sstable` function
sstables_loader: extract single SST download into a function
sstables_loader: add shard_id to minimal_sst_info
sstables_loader: add function for parsing backup manifests
split utility functions for creating test data from database_test
export make_storage_options_config from lib/test_services
rjson: Add helpers for conversions to dht::token and sstable_id
Add system_distributed_keyspace.snapshot_sstables
add get_system_distributed_keyspace to cql_test_env
code: Add system_distributed_keyspace dependency to sstables_loader
storage_service: Export export handle_raft_rpc() helper
storage_service: Export do_tablet_operation()
storage_service: Split transit_tablet() into two
tablets: Add braces around tablet_transition_kind::repair switch
`system.view_building_tasks` is a single-partition Raft group0 table (pk = `"view_building"`, CK = timeuuid). When `clean_finished_tasks()` deletes hundreds of finished tasks, the physical rows remain in SSTables until compaction. Any subsequent read of the partition counts every column of every tombstoned row
as a dead cell, triggering `tombstone_warn_threshold` warnings in large clusters.
Two-part fix:
**1. Range tombstones instead of row tombstones (commits 2–3)**
Instead of one row tombstone per finished task, find the minimum alive task UUID (`min_alive_uuid`) and emit a single range tombstone `[before_all, min_alive_uuid)` covering all tasks below that boundary. This reduces the tombstone count significantly and also benefits future compaction.
**2. Bounded scan with `min_task_id` (commits 4–6)**
Even with range tombstones, physical rows remain until compaction and still count as dead cells during reads. The only way to avoid them is to not read them at all.
- Add a `min_task_id timeuuid` static column to `system.view_building_tasks`.
- On every GC, write `min_task_id = min_alive_uuid` atomically with the range tombstone (same Raft batch).
- On reload, read `min_task_id` first using a **static-only partition slice** (empty `_row_ranges` + `always_return_static_content`): the SSTable reader stops immediately after the static row before processing any clustering tombstones — zero dead cells counted.
- Use `AND id >= min_task_id` as a lower bound for the main task scan, skipping all tombstoned rows.
The static-only read and the bounded scan are gated on the `VIEW_BUILDING_TASKS_MIN_TASK_ID` cluster feature so mixed-version clusters fall back to the full scan.
The issue is not critical, so the fix shouldn't be backported.
Fixes SCYLLADB-657
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28929
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test/cluster/test_view_building_coordinator: add reproducer for tombstone threshold warning
docs: document tombstone avoidance in view_building_tasks
view_building: add `task_uuid_generator` to `view_building_task_mutation_builder`
view_building: introduce `task_uuid_generator`
view_building: store `min_alive_uuid` in view building state
view_building: set min_task_id when GC-ing finished tasks
view_building: add min_task_id support to view_building_task_mutation_builder
view_building: add min_task_id static column and bounded scan to system_keyspace
view_building: use range tombstone when GC-ing finished tasks
view_building: add range tombstone support to view_building_task_mutation_builder
view_building: introduce VIEW_BUILDING_TASKS_MIN_TASK_ID cluster feature
Add some text about how the new transition works. It doesn't include
full feature description, just concentrates on the new transition and
the way it interacts with the rest of topology coordinator machinery.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@scylladb.com>
This patch adds the snapshot_sstables table with the following
schema:
```cql
CREATE TABLE system_distributed.snapshot_sstables (
snapshot_name text,
keyspace text, table text,
datacenter text, rack text,
id uuid,
first_token bigint, last_token bigint,
toc_name text, prefix text)
PRIMARY KEY ((snapshot_name, keyspace, table, datacenter, rack), first_token, id);
```
The table will be populated by the coordinator node during the restore
phase (and later on during the backup phase to accomodate live-restore).
The content of this table is meant to be consumed by the restore worker nodes
which will use this data to filter and file-based download sstables.
Fixes SCYLLADB-263
Signed-off-by: Robert Bindar <robert.bindar@scylladb.com>
The procedure to migrate a vnodes-based keyspace to tablets-based keyspace
has been labeled as experimental.
Fixes SCYLLADB-1932
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29834
The MV Select Statement description was missing the word "columns" and
used incorrect verb agreement, making the sentence grammatically broken
and ambiguous.
docs/cql/mv.rst: "which of the base table is included" →
"which of the base table columns are included"
Fixes#29662Closes#29663
Co-authored-by: annastuchlik <37244380+annastuchlik@users.noreply.github.com>
When an Alternator stream is disabled, the data should continue to be accessible so that consumers can finish reading. When the stream is later re-enabled, a new StreamArn is produced and only then the old data is purged.
On disable, the existing CDC options (including preimage and postimage) are preserved so that DescribeStream can still report StreamViewType. All stream APIs continue to work on the disabled stream, with all shards reported as closed (EndingSequenceNumber set). No new CDC records are written; existing data expires via TTL after 24 hours.
On re-enable, the old CDC log table is dropped as a separate Raft group0 schema change and a fresh one is created with a new UUID, giving a new StreamArn. This is Alternator-specific — CQL CDC keeps reusing the log table. Re-enabling is the only way to immediately purge old stream data.
Old stream data is removed immediately upon re-enable (a discrepancy with DynamoDB, which keeps it readable for 24 hours through the old StreamArn).
Tests updated to cover the new disable and re-enable behavior.
Fixes#7239
Fixes SCYLLADB-523
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29413
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
alternator/streams: remove dead next_iter in get_records
test/alternator: fix stream wait timeouts to use wall-clock time
docs/alternator: document stream disable/re-enable behavior
alternator/streams: keep disabled streams usable and purge on re-enable
Fix 4 genuine CQL syntax errors in documentation examples, found by automated extraction and execution of doc code blocks against a live ScyllaDB instance.
- **insert.rst**: `USING TTL 86400 IF NOT EXISTS` → `IF NOT EXISTS USING TTL 86400` (wrong clause order produces syntax error)
- **ddl.rst**: Missing opening quote in ALTER KEYSPACE example (`dc2'` → `'dc2'`)
- **ddl.rst**: Hyphenated column names need double-quoting; also fix PRIMARY KEY referencing non-existent `customer_id` instead of `cust_id`
- **types.rst**: UDT `address` contains nested collections, so it must be `frozen<address>` when used as a column type
Built a CQL extractor that parses `.. code-block:: cql` blocks from RST docs, then executed all 194 extracted statements against ScyllaDB 2026.2.0-rc0. These 4 are confirmed syntax/semantic errors in the documentation.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29765
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test/cqlpy: add tests for hyphenated column names
docs/cql: fix UDT example to use frozen<address>
docs/cql: fix CREATE TABLE example with hyphenated column names
docs/cql: fix missing opening quote in ALTER KEYSPACE example
docs/cql: fix INSERT example clause order (IF NOT EXISTS before USING)
The 'address' UDT contains a nested collection (map<text, frozen<phone>>),
so it must be frozen when used as a column type. Non-frozen UDTs with
nested non-frozen collections are not supported.
Column names containing hyphens must be double-quoted. Also fix
the PRIMARY KEY reference from 'customer_id' (non-existent) to
'cust_id' (the actual column).
The grammar requires IF NOT EXISTS to appear before USING TTL,
not after. The example had 'USING TTL 86400 IF NOT EXISTS' which
produces a syntax error.
With this change, you can add or remove a DC(s) in a single ALTER KEYSPACE statement. It requires the keyspace to use rack list replication factor.
In existing approach, during RF change all tablet replicas are rebuilt at once. This isn't the case now. In global_topology_request::keyspace_rf_change the request is added to a ongoing_rf_changes - a new column in system.topology table. In a new column in system_schema.keyspaces - next_replication - we keep the target RF.
In make_rf_change_plan, load balancer schedules necessary migrations, considering the load of nodes and other pending tablet transitions. Requests from ongoing_rf_changes are processed concurrently, independently from one another. In each request racks are processed concurrently. No tablet replica will be removed until all required replicas are added. While adding replicas to each rack we always start with base tables and won't proceed with views until they are done (while removing - the other way around). The intermediary steps aren't reflected in schema. When the Rf change is finished:
- in system_schema.keyspaces:
- next_replication is cleared;
- new keyspace properties are saved;
- request is removed from ongoing_rf_changes;
- the request is marked as done in system.topology_requests.
Until the request is done, DESCRIBE KEYSPACE shows the replication_v2.
If a request hasn't started to remove replicas, it can be aborted using task manager. system.topology_requests::error is set (but the request isn't marked as done) and next_replication = replication_v2. This will be interpreted by load balancer, that will start the rollback of the request. After the rollback is done, we set the relevant system.topology_requests entry as done (failed), clear the request id from system.topology::ongoing_rf_changes, and remove next_replication.
Fixes: SCYLLADB-567.
No backport needed; new feature.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#24421
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
service: fix indentation
docs: update documentation
test: test multi RF changes
service: tasks: allow aborting ongoing RF changes
cql3: allow changing RF by more than one when adding or removing a DC
service: handle multi_rf_change
service: implement make_rf_change_plan
service: add keyspace_rf_change_plan to migration_plan
service: extend tablet_migration_info to handle rebuilds
service: split update_node_load_on_migration
service: rearrange keyspace_rf_change handler
db: add columns to system_schema.keyspaces
db: service: add ongoing_rf_changes to system.topology
gms: add keyspace_multi_rf_change feature
In Alternator's HTTP API, response headers can dominate bandwidth for
small payloads. The Server, Date, and Content-Type headers were sent on
every response but many clients never use them.
This patch introduces three Alternator config options:
- alternator_http_response_server_header,
- alternator_http_response_disable_date_header,
- alternator_http_response_disable_content_type_header,
which allow customizing or suppressing the respective HTTP response
headers. All three options support live update (no restart needed).
The Server header is no longer sent by default; the Date and
Content-Type defaults preserve the existing behavior.
The Server and Date header suppression uses Seastar's
set_server_header() and set_generate_date_header() APIs added in
https://github.com/scylladb/seastar/pull/3217. This patch also
fixes deprecation warnings from older Seastar HTTP APIs.
Tests are in test/alternator/test_http_headers.py.
Fixes https://scylladb.atlassian.net/browse/SCYLLADB-70Closesscylladb/scylladb#28288
Fix cdc writing unnecesary entries to it's log, like for example when Alternator deletes an item which in reality doesn't exist.
Originally @wps0 tackled this issue. This patch is an extension of his work. His work involved adding `should_skip` function to cdc, which would process a `mutation` object and decide, wherever changes in the object should be added to cdc log or not.
The issue with his approach is that `mutation` object might contain changes for more than one row. If - for example - the `mutation` object contains two changes, delete of non-existing row and create of non-existing row, `should_skip` function will detect changes in second item and allow whole `mutation` (BOTH items) to be added. For example (using python's boto3) running this on empty table:
```
with table.batch_writer() as batch:
batch.put_item({'p': 'p', 'c': 'c0'})
batch.delete_item(Key={'p': 'p', 'c': 'c1'})
```
will emit two events ("put" event and "delete" event), even though the item with `c` set to `c1` does not exist (thus can't be deleted). Note, that both entries in batch write must use the same partition key, otherwise upper layer with split them into separate `mutation` objects and the issue will not happen.
The solution is to do similar processing, but consider each change separated from others. This is tricky to implement due to a way cdc works. When cdc processes `mutation` object (containing X changes), it emits cdc entries in phases. Phase 1 - emit `preimage` (old state) for each change (if requested). Phase 2 - for each change emit actual "diff" (update / delete and so on). Phase 3 - emit `postimage` (new state).
We will know if change needs to be skipped during phase 2. By that time phase 1 is completed and preimage for the change is emited. At that moment we set a flag that the change (identified by clustering key value) needs to be skipped - we add a clustering key to a `ignore-rows` set (`_alternator_clustering_keys_to_ignore` variable) and continue normally. Once all phases finish we add a `postprocess` phase (`clean_up_noop_rows` function). It will go through generated cdc mutations and skip all modifications, for which clustering key is in `ignore-rows` set. After skipping we need to do a "cleanup" operation - each generated cdc mutation contain index (incremented by one), if we skipped some parts, the index is not consecutive anymore, so we reindex final changes.
There's a special case worth mentioning - Alternator tables without clustering keys. At that point `mutation` object passed to cdc can contain exactly one change (since different partition keys are splitted by upper layers and Alternator will never emit `mutation` object containing two (or more) changes with the same primary key. Here, when we decide the change is to be skipped we add empty `bytes` object to `ignore-rows` set. When checking `ignore-rows` set, we check if it's empty or not (we don't check for presence of empty `bytes` object).
Note: there might be some confusion between this patch and #28452 patch. Both started from the same error observation and use similar tests for validation, as both are easily triggered by BatchWrite commands (both needs `mutation` object passed to cdc to contain more than one single change). This issue tho is about wrong data written in cdc log and is fixed at cdc, where #28452 is about wrong way of parsing correct cdc data and is fixed at Alternator side of things. Note, that we need #28452 to truly verify (otherwise we will emit correct cdc entries, but Alternator will incorrectly parse them).
Note: to benefit / notice this patch you need `alternator_streams_increased_compatibility` flag turned on.
Note: rework is quite "broad" and covers a lot of ground - every operation, that might result in a no-change to the database state should be tested. An additional test was added - trying to remove a column from non-existing item, as well as trying to remove non-existing column from existing item.
Fixes: #28368
Fixes: SCYLLADB-1528
Fixes: SCYLLADB-538
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28544
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
alternator: remove unnecesary code
alternator: fix Alternator writing unnecesary cdc entries
alternator: add failing tests for Streams
Remove `if` condition, that prevented tables with tablets
working with Streams.
Remove a test, that verifies, that Alternator will reject
tables with tablets underneath working with Streams feature enabled
on them.
Update few tests, that were expected to fail on tablets to enable their
normal execution.
Work in this patch is a result of two bugs - spurious MODIFY event, when
remove column is used in `update_item` on non-existing item and
spurious events, when batch write item mixed noop operations with
operations involving actual changes (the former would still emit
cdc log entries).
The latter issue required rework of Piotr Wieczorek's algorithm,
which fixed former issue as well.
Piotr Wieczorek previously wrote checks, that should
prevent unnecesary cdc events from being written. His implementation
missed the fact, that a single `mutation` object passed to cdc code
to be analysed for cdc log entries can contain modifications for
multiple rows (with the same timestamp - for example as a result
to BatchWriteItem call). His code tries to skip whole `mutation`,
which in such case is not possible, because BatchWriteItem might have
one item that does nothing and second item that does modification
(this is the reason for the second bug).
His algorithm was extended and moved. Originally it was working
as follows - user would sent a `mutation` object with some changes to
be "augmented". The cdc would process those changes and built a set of
cdc log changes based on them, that would be added to cdc log table.
Piotr added a `should_skip` function, which processes user changes and
tried to determine if they all should be dropped or not.
New version, instead of trying to skip adding rows to
cdc log `mutation` object, builds a rows-to-ignore set.
After whole cdc log `mutation` object is completed, it processes it
and go through it row by row. Any row that was previously added to
a `rows_to_ignore` set will now be removed. Remaining rows are written to
new cdc log `mutation` with new clustering key
(`cdc$batch_seq_no` index value should probably be consecutive -
we just want to be safe here) and returns new `mutation` object to
be sent to cdc log table.
The first bug is fixed as a side effect of new algorithm,
which contains more precise checks detecting, if given
mutation actually made a difference.
Fixes: #28368
Fixes: SCYLLADB-538
Fixes: SCYLLADB-1528
Refs: #28452
Users ought to have possibility to create the local index for Vector Search
based only on a part of the partition key. This commits provides this by
removing requirements of 'full partition key only' for custom local index.
The commit updates docs to explain that local vector index can use only a part
of the partition key.
The commit implements cqlpy test to check fixed functionality.
Fixes: SCYLLADB-953
Needs to be backported to 2026.1 as it is a fix for local vector indexes.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28931
This series adds support for vector search in Alternator based on the existing implementation in CQL.
The series adds APIs for `CreateTable` and `UpdateTable` to add or remove vector indexes to Alternator tables, `DescribeTable` to list them and check the indexing status, and `Query` to perform a vector search - which contacts the vector store for the actual ANN (approximate nearest neighbor) search.
Correct functionality of these features depend on some features of the the vector store, that were already done (see https://github.com/scylladb/vector-store/pull/394).
This initial implementation is fully functional, and can already be useful, but we do not yet support all the features we hope to eventually support. Here are things that we have **not** done yet, and plan to do later in follow-up pull requests:
1. Support a new optimized vector type ("V") - in addition to the "list of numbers" type supported in this version.
2. Allow choosing a different similarity function when creating an index, by SimilarityFunction in VectorIndex definition.
3. Allow choosing quantization (f32/f16/bf16/i8/b1) to ask the vector index to compress stored vectors.
4. Support oversampling and rescoring, defined per-index and per-query.
5. Support HNSW tuning parameters — maximum_node_connections, construction_beam_width, search_beam_width.
6. Support pre-filtering over key columns, which are available at the vector store, by sending the filter to the vector store (translated from DynamoDB filter syntax to the vector's store's filter syntax). A decision still need to be made if this will use KeyConditionExpression or FilterExpression. This version supports only post-filtering (with `FilterExpression`).
7. Support projecting non-key attributes into the index (Projection=INCLUDE and Projection=ALL), and then 1. pre-filtering using these attributes, and 2. efficiently return these attributes (using Select=ALL_PROJECTED_ATTRIBUTES, which today returns just the key columns).
8. Optimize the performance of `Query`, which today is inefficient for Select=ALL_ATTRIBUTES because it serially retrieves the matching items one at a time.
9. Returning the similarity scores with the items (the design proposes ReturnVectorSearchSimilarity).
10. Add more vector-search-specific metrics, beyond the metric we already have counting Query requests. For example separate latency and request-count metrics for vector-search Queries (distinct from GSI/LSI queries), and a metric accumulating the total Limit (K) across all vector search queries.
11. Consider how (and if at all) we want to run the tests in test/alternator/test_vector.py that need the vector store in the CI. Currently they are skipped in CI and only run manually (with `test/alternator/run --vs test_vector`).
12. UpdateTable 'Update' operation to modify index parameters. Only some can be modified, e.g., Oversampling.
13. Support for "local index" (separate index for each partition).
14. Make sure that vector search and Streams can be enabled concurrently on the same table - both need CDC but we need to verify that one doesn't confuse the other or disables options that the other needs. We can only do this after we have Alternator Streams running on tablets (since vector store requires tablets).
Testing the new Alternator vector search end-to-end requires running both Scylla and the vector store together. We will have such end-to-end tests in the vector store repository (see https://github.com/scylladb/vector-store/pull/392), but we also add in this pull request many end-to-end tests written in Python, that can be run with the command "test/alternator/run --vs test_vector.py". The "--vs" option tells the run script to run both Scylla and the vector store (currently assumed to be in `.../vector-store/target/release/vector-store`). About 65% of the tests in this pull request check supported syntax and error paths so can run without the vector store, while about 35% of the tests do perform actual Query operations and require the vector store to be running. Currently, the tests that do require the vector store will not get run by CI, but can be easily re-run manually with `test/alternator/run --vs test_vector.py`.
In total, this series includes 78 functional tests in 2200 lines of Python code.
This series also includes documentation for the new Alternator feature and the new APIs introduced. You can see a more detailed design document here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cxLI7n-AgV5hhH1DTyU_Es8_f-t8Acql-1f58eQjZLY/edit
Two patches in this series split the huge alternator/executor.cc, after this series continued to grow it and it reached a whoppng 7,000 lines. These patches are just reorganization of code, no functional changes. But it's time that we finally do this (Refs #5783), we can't just continue to grow executor.cc with no end...
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29046
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test/alternator: add option to "run" script to run with vector search
alternator: document vector search
test/alternator: fix retries in new_dynamodb_session
test/alternator: test for allowed characters in attribute names
test/alternator: tests for vector index support
alternator, vector: add validation of non-finite numbers in Query
alternator: Query: improve error message when VectorSearch is missing
alternator: add per-table metrics for vector query
alternator: clean up duplicated code
alternator: fix default Select of Query
alternator: split executor.cc even more
alternator: split alternator/executor.cc
alternator: validate vector index attribute values on write
alternator: DescribeTable for vector index: add IndexStatus and Backfilling
alternator: implement Query with a vector index
alternator: fix bug in describe_multi_item()
alternator: prevent adding GSI conflicting with a vector index
alternator: implement UpdateTable with a vector index
alternator: implement DescribeTable with a vector index
alternator: implement CreateTable with a vector index
alternator: reject empty attribute names
cdc: fix on_pre_create_column_families to create CDC log for vector search
