Hi RocketMQ Community: After the release of RocketMQ 4.5.0, the DLedger mode (raft) was introduced. The raft commitlog under this architecture is used to replace the original commitlog so that it has the ability to failover. However, there are some disadvantages going with this architecture due to the raft capability on replication, including:
1. To have failover ability, the number of replicas in the broker group must be 3 or more. 2. Acks from replicas need to strictly follow the majority rule of the Raft protocol, that is, 3-replica architecture requires acks from 2 replicas to return, and 5-replica architecture requires acks from 3 to return. 3. Since the store repository relies on OpenMessaging DLedger in DLedger mode, native storage and replication capabilities of RocketMQ (such as transientStorePool and zero-copy capabilities) cannot be reused, and maintenance becomes difficult as well. To handle those mentioned problems, I would like to start an email thread to discuss the RIP-44 Support DLedger Controller. With this improvement, DLedger (Raft) capability will be abstracted onto the upper layer, becoming an optional and loosely coupled coordination component named DLedger Controller. After the deployment of DLedger Controller, the master-slave architecture will also equip with failover capability. The DLedger Controller can optionally be embedded into the NameServer (the NameServer itself remains stateless and cannot provide electoral capabilities when the majority is down), or it can be deployed independently. DLedger controller is an optional component that does not change the previous operation and maintenance mode. Compared with other components, its downtime will not affect online services. In addition, RIP-44 unifies the storage and replication of RocketMQ, resulting in lower maintenance costs and faster development iterations. In terms of compatibility, the master-slave architecture can upgrade without compatibility problems. I've already done part of the work with Zhangheng Huang. Our proposals are provided at the links below：https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tSJkor_3Js4NBaVA0UENGyM8Mh0SrRMXszRyI91hjJ8/edit?usp=sharing Chinese version： https://shimo.im/docs/N2A1Mz9QZltQZoAD/ Please welcome to reply to this email or comment on the proposal if you have any questions or suggestions. Thanks, RongtongJin
