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Enis Soztutar commented on HBASE-13260:
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bq. Resolve as interesting experiment from which we learned a bunch?
I have a much smaller patch lying around that I still wanna get in. Basically
the region / regionserver separation and cleanup and the embedded table stuff
without the proc and bootstrap service changes.
I think better separation of the region library for the region server internals
is still the direction we want to go, and the embedded service (although no
direct users initially) will help with keeping concerns separately.
> Bootstrap Tables for fun and profit
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> Key: HBASE-13260
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-13260
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Enis Soztutar
> Assignee: Enis Soztutar
> Fix For: 2.0.0, 1.3.0
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> Attachments: hbase-13260_bench.patch, hbase-13260_prototype.patch
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> Over at the ProcV2 discussions(HBASE-12439) and elsewhere I was mentioning an
> idea where we may want to use regular old regions to store/persist some data
> needed for HBase master to operate.
> We regularly use system tables for storing system data. acl, meta, namespace,
> quota are some examples. We also store the table state in meta now. Some data
> is persisted in zk only (replication peers and replication state, etc). We
> are moving away from zk as a permanent storage. As any self-respecting
> database does, we should store almost all of our data in HBase itself.
> However, we have an "availability" dependency between different kinds of
> data. For example all system tables need meta to be assigned first. All
> master operations need ns table to be assigned, etc.
> For at least two types of data, (1) procedure v2 states, (2) RS groups in
> HBASE-6721 we cannot depend on meta being assigned since "assignment" itself
> will depend on accessing this data. The solution in (1) is to implement a
> custom WAL format, and custom recover lease and WAL recovery. The solution in
> (2) is to have the table to store this data, but also cache it in zk for
> bootrapping initial assignments.
> For solving both of the above (and possible future use cases if any), I
> propose we add a "boostrap table" concept, which is:
> - A set of predefined tables hosted in a separate dir in HDFS.
> - A table is only 1 region, not splittable
> - Not assigned through regular assignment
> - Hosted only on 1 server (typically master)
> - Has a dedicated WAL.
> - A service does WAL recovery + fencing for these tables.
> This has the benefit of using a region to keep the data, but frees us to
> re-implement caching and we can use the same WAL / Memstore / Recovery
> mechanisms that are battle-tested.
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