This patch increases the compatibility with DynamoDB Streams by integrating the DynamoDB's event type rules (described in https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/6918) into Alternator. The main changes are:
- introduce a new flag `alternator_streams_strict_compatibility`, meant as a guard of performance-intensive operations that increase the compatibility with DynamoDB Streams. If enabled, Alternator always performs a RBW before a data-modifying operation, and propagates its result to CDC. Then, the old item is compared to the new one, to determine the mutation type (INSERT vs MODIFY). This option is a no-op for tables with disabled Alternator Streams,
- reduce splitting of simple Alternator mutations,
- correctly distinguish event types described in #6918, except for item deletes. Deleting a missing item with DeleteItem, BatchWriteItem, or a missing field with UpdateItem still emit REMOVEs.
To summarize, the emitted events of the data manipulation operations should be as follows:
- DeleteItem/BatchWriteItem.DeleteItem of existing item: REMOVE (OK)
- DeleteItem of nonexistent item: nothing (OK)
- BatchWriteItem.DeleteItem of nonexistent item: nothing (OK)
- PutItem/UpdateItem/BatchWriteItem.PutItem of existing and not equal item: MODIFY (OK)
- PutItem/UpdateItem/BatchWriteItem.PutItem of existing and equal item: nothing (OK)
- PutItem/UpdateItem/BatchWriteItem.PutItem of nonexistent item: INSERT (OK)
No backport is necessary.
Refs https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/pull/26149
Refs https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/pull/26396
Refs https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/26382
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/6918
Closes scylladb/scylladb#26121
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test/alternator: Enable the tests failing because of #6918
alternator, cdc: Don't emit events for no-op removes
alternator, cdc: Don't emit an event for equal items
alternator/streams, cdc: Differentiate item replace and item update in CDC
alternator: Change the return type of rmw_operation_return
config: Add alternator_streams_strict_compatibility flag
cdc: Don't split a row marker away from row cells
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