Memtables are a replica-side entity, and so are moved to the
replica module and namespace.
Memtables are also used outside the replica, in two places:
- in some virtual tables; this is also in some way inside the replica,
(virtual readers are installed at the replica level, not the
cooordinator), so I don't consider it a layering violation
- in many sstable unit tests, as a convenient way to create sstables
with known input. This is a layering violation.
We could make memtables their own module, but I think this is wrong.
Memtables are deeply tied into replica memory management, and trying
to make them a low-level primitive (at a lower level than sstables) will
be difficult. Not least because memtables use sstables. Instead, we
should have a memtable-like thing that doesn't support merging and
doesn't have all other funky memtable stuff, and instead replace
the uses of memtables in sstable tests with some kind of
make_flat_mutation_reader_from_unsorted_mutations() that does
the sorting that is the reason for the use of memtables in tests (and
live with the layering violation meanwhile).
Test: unit (dev)
Closes#10120
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