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There are some schema modifications performed automatically (during bootstrap, upgrade etc.) by Scylla that are announced by multiple calls to `migration_manager::announce` even though they are logically one change. Precisely, they appear in: - `system_distributed_keyspace::start`, - `redis:create_keyspace_if_not_exists_impl`, - `table_helper::setup_keyspace` (for the `system_traces` keyspace). All these places contain a FIXME telling us to `announce` only once. There are a few reasons for this: - calling `migration_manager::announce` with Raft is quite expensive -- taking a `read_barrier` is necessary, and that requires contacting a leader, which then must contact a quorum, - we must implement a retrying mechanism for every automatic `announce` if `group0_concurrent_modification` occurs to enable support for concurrent bootstrap in Raft-based topology. Doing it before the FIXMEs mentioned above would be harder, and fixing the FIXMEs later would also be harder. This PR fixes the first two FIXMEs and improves the situation with the last one by reducing the number of the `announce` calls to two. Unfortunately, reducing this number to one requires a big refactor. We can do it as a follow-up to a new, more specific issue. Also, we leave a new FIXME. Fixing the first two FIXMEs required enabling the announcement of a keyspace together with its tables. Until now, the code responsible for preparing mutations for a new table could assume the existence of the keyspace. This assumption wasn't necessary, but removing it required some refactoring. Fixes scylladb/scylladb#15437 Closes scylladb/scylladb#15897 * github.com:scylladb/scylladb: table_helper: announce twice in setup_keyspace table_helper: refactor setup_table redis: create_keyspace_if_not_exists_impl: fix indentation redis: announce once in create_keyspace_if_not_exists_impl db: system_distributed_keyspace: fix indentation db: system_distributed_keyspace: announce once in start tablet_allocator: update on_before_create_column_family migration_listener: add parameter to on_before_create_column_family alternator: executor: use new prepare_new_column_family_announcement alternator: executor: introduce create_keyspace_metadata migration_manager: add new prepare_new_column_family_announcement
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.