ndimiduk commented on a change in pull request #1164: HBASE-23331: Documentation for HBASE-18095 URL: https://github.com/apache/hbase/pull/1164#discussion_r378610626
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So it is an obvious place to look at for clients to fetch the latest cluster state. However this comes with it’s own set of problems, some of them are below. + +* Timeouts and retry logic for ZK clients are managed separately from HBase configuration. This is more administration overhead for end users (example: multiple timeouts are to be configured for different types of RPCs. client->master, client->ZK etc.). This prevents HBase from having a single holistic timeout configuration that applies to any RPCs. +* If there is any issue with ZK (like connection overload / timeouts), the entire HBase service appears frozen and there is little visibility into it. +* Exposing zookeeper to all the clients can be risky since it can potentially be abused to DDOS. +* Embedded ZK client is bundled with hbase client jar as a dependency (with it’s log spew :-]). + +== Goal + +We would like to remove this ZK dependency in the HBase client and instead have the clients query a preconfigured list of active and standby master host:port addresses. This brings all the client interactions with HBase under the same RPC framework that is holistically controlled by a set of hbase client configuration parameters. This also alleviates the pressure on ZK cluster which is critical from an operational standpoint as some core processes like replication, log splitting, master election etc. depend on it. The next section describes the kind of changes needed on both server and client side to support this behavior. + +== Proposed design + +As mentioned above, clients now get a pre configured list active and standby master addresses that they can query to fetch the meta information needed for connection setup. Something like, + +[source, xml] +----- +<property> + <name>hbase.masters</name> + <value>master1:16000,master2:16001,master3:16000</value> +</property> +----- + +Clients should be robust enough to handle configuration changes to this parameter since master hosts can change (added/removed) over time and not every client can afford a restart. + +One thing to note here is that having masters in the init/read/write path for clients means that + +* At Least one active/standby master is now needed for connection creation. Earlier this was not a requirement because the clients looked up the cluster ID from the relevant znode and init successfully. So, technically a master need not be around to create a connection to the cluster. +* Masters are now active part of read write path in client life cycle under certain scenarios. If the client cache of meta locations/active master is purged/stale, at least one master (active/stand-by) serving the latest information should exist. Earlier this information was served by ZK and clients look up the latest cluster ID/active master/meta locations from the relevant znodes and get going. Review comment: I know we nit-picked over this language earlier. With this feature enabled, this change places the masters into the client lifecycle ~under _all_ scenarios~. It's simply the lifecycle. That involvement mirrors the current ZK involvement, which is to say that the masters are introduced into the path of service discovery that a client undertakes in order to locate the data it seeks. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services
