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Currently, when two cells have the same write timestamp and both are alive or expiring, we compare their value first, before checking if either of them is expiring and if both are expiring, comparing their expiration time and ttl value to determine which of them will expire later or was written later. This was based on an early version of Cassandra. However, the Cassandra implementation rightfully changed ine225c88a65([CASSANDRA-14592](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14592)), where the cell expiration is considered before the cell value. To summarize, the motivation for this change is three fold: 1. Cassandra compatibility 2. Prevent an edge case where a null value is returned by select query when an expired cell has a larger value than a cell with later expiration. 3. A generalization of the above: value-based reconciliation may cause select query to return a mixture of upserts, if multiple upserts use the same timeastamp but have different expiration times. If the cell value is considered before expiration, the select result may contain cells from different inserts, while reconciling based the expiration times will choose cells consistently from either upserts, as all cells in the respective upsert will carry the same expiration time. \Fixes scylladb/scylladb#14182 Also, this series: - updates dml documentation - updates internal documentation - updates and adds unit tests and cql pytest reproducing #14182 \Closes scylladb/scylladb#14183 * github.com:scylladb/scylladb: docs: dml: add update ordering section cql-pytest: test_using_timestamp: add tests for rewrites using same timestamp mutation_partition: compare_row_marker_for_merge: consider ttl in case expiry is the same atomic_cell: compare_atomic_cell_for_merge: update and add documentation compare_atomic_cell_for_merge: compare value last for live cells mutation_test: test_cell_ordering: improve debuggability (cherry picked from commit87b4606cd6) Closes #14649
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 users mailing list 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.