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Andrew Purtell commented on HBASE-8751:
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bq. I also noticed somebody mentioned "replication-scope" as integer rather
than a boolean is for such fine-grained replication purpose
That was me, a long time ago. I won't argue for it here, but let me provide an
example of what was meant: What one might do is assign each unique combination
of column families to an integer. E.g. "cf1" -> 1, "cf1,cf2" -> 2. Then
consider a plug point for replication policies where the extension code can
decide what to do when presented with an integer. In this case, find the
mapping of integer to column family list, and filter accordingly. It would be
more work for the user or system integrator, they'd have to implement that
plugin and the shell support.
I was also thinking that integers could encode sensitivity, so for use cases
where sensitive information must remain local, this might be a way to ensure
that, and it's convenient because dominance relations between sensitivity
levels map to the natural ordering of integers.
> Enable peer cluster to choose/change the ColumnFamilies/Tables it really want
> to replicate from a source cluster
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>
> Key: HBASE-8751
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8751
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Replication
> Reporter: Feng Honghua
> Attachments: HBASE-8751-0.94-V0.patch
>
>
> Consider scenarios (all cf are with replication-scope=1):
> 1) cluster S has 3 tables, table A has cfA,cfB, table B has cfX,cfY, table C
> has cf1,cf2.
> 2) cluster X wants to replicate table A : cfA, table B : cfX and table C from
> cluster S.
> 3) cluster Y wants to replicate table B : cfY, table C : cf2 from cluster S.
> Current replication implementation can't achieve this since it'll push the
> data of all the replicatable column-families from cluster S to all its peers,
> X/Y in this scenario.
> This improvement provides a fine-grained replication theme which enable peer
> cluster to choose the column-families/tables they really want from the source
> cluster:
> A). Set the table:cf-list for a peer when addPeer:
> hbase-shell> add_peer '3', "zk:1100:/hbase", "table1; table2:cf1,cf2;
> table3:cf2"
> B). View the table:cf-list config for a peer using show_peer_tableCFs:
> hbase-shell> show_peer_tableCFs "1"
> C). Change/set the table:cf-list for a peer using set_peer_tableCFs:
> hbase-shell> set_peer_tableCFs '2', "table1:cfX; table2:cf1; table3:cf1,cf2"
> In this theme, replication-scope=1 only means a column-family CAN be
> replicated to other clusters, but only the 'table:cf-list list' determines
> WHICH cf/table will actually be replicated to a specific peer.
> To provide back-compatibility, empty 'table:cf-list list' will replicate all
> replicatable cf/table. (this means we don't allow a peer which replicates
> nothing from a source cluster, we think it's reasonable: if replicating
> nothing why bother adding a peer?)
> This improvement addresses the exact problem raised by the first FAQ in
> "http://hbase.apache.org/replication.html":
> "GLOBAL means replicate? Any provision to replicate only to cluster X and
> not to cluster Y? or is that for later?
> Yes, this is for much later."
> I also noticed somebody mentioned "replication-scope" as integer rather than
> a boolean is for such fine-grained replication purpose, but I think extending
> "replication-scope" can't achieve the same replication granularity
> flexibility as providing above per-peer replication configurations.
> This improvement has been running smoothly in our production clusters
> (Xiaomi) for several months.
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