Jonathan Shook created CASSANDRA-12268:
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Summary: Make MV Index creation robust for wide referent rows
Key: CASSANDRA-12268
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12268
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Core
Reporter: Jonathan Shook
When creating an index for a materialized view for extant data, heap pressure
is very dependent on the cardinality of of rows associated with each index
value. With the way that per-index value rows are created within the index,
this can cause unbounded heap pressure, which can cause OOM. This appears to be
a side-effect of how each index row is applied atomically as with batches.
The commit logs can accumulate enough during the process to prevent the node
from being restarted. Given that this occurs during global index creation, this
can happen on multiple nodes, making stable recovery of a node set difficult,
as co-replicas become unavailable to assist in back-filling data from
commitlogs.
While it is understandable that you want to avoid having relatively wide rows
even in materialized views, this scenario represent a particularly difficult
scenario for triage.
The basic recommendation for improving this is to sub-group the index creation
into smaller chunks internally, providing a maximal bound against the heap
pressure when it is needed.
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