Overcoming Distributed Databases Scaling Challenges with Tablets
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Maximizing performance goes beyond server-level tweaks. Even low level code, scaling requires more. In this session, learn about "tablets"—a dynamic sharding design at ScyllaDB that optimizes CPU, storage, and elasticity for top-notch performance. #Database #ScyllaDB
![Algorithm #2: rewrite in assembly
internal::memory_prefaulter::work(...) {
auto fault_in_memory = [] (char* p);
// Touch the page for write, but be sure not to modify anything
// The compilers tend to optimize things, so prefer assembly
asm volatile ("lock orb $0, %0" : "=&m"(*p));
while (start < end) {
fault_in_memory(start);
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![Cassandra Token Ring [2008]
■ Each node has one token range
■ Token ranges are assigned
randomly on node creation
■ A new node split an existing
range
■ Replica sets determined
algorithmically
Owned range
Replica set
A
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- 1. A ScyllaDB Community Overcoming Distributed Databases Scaling Challenges with Tablets Dor Laor Co-founder & CEO
- 2. Dor Laor Co-founder of ScyllaDB ■ Something cool I’ve done: Dyed my hair ■ My perspective on P99s: Less is more ■ Another thing about me: Own a Phd in Snowboard ■ What I do away from work: Work remotely
- 3. Low p99 latency algorithm: #1: write code #2: Optimize #3: if (fast) break goto #2
- 4. Algorithm #2: rewrite in assembly internal::memory_prefaulter::work(...) { auto fault_in_memory = [] (char* p); // Touch the page for write, but be sure not to modify anything // The compilers tend to optimize things, so prefer assembly asm volatile ("lock orb $0, %0" : "=&m"(*p)); while (start < end) { fault_in_memory(start); start += page_size; } };
- 5. Algorithm #3: Thread per core Architecture Shards Threads
- 6. Profit!
- 7. Most times, |server| > 1 Hmm, so local optimizations matter more!
- 9. Let’s Shard
- 10. Redis Shards
- 11. Cassandra Token Ring [2008] ■ Each node has one token range ■ Token ranges are assigned randomly on node creation ■ A new node split an existing range ■ Replica sets determined algorithmically Owned range Replica set A D C F
- 12. Advantages ■ Nodes can be added with no central coordination
- 13. Disadvantages ■ Nodes cannot be added without central coordination ■ Can only join/decommission one node at a time ■ Bad data distribution ● ./shardsim --nodes 12 --vnodes 1 --shards 1 maximum node overcommit: 3.42607 ● Support for manual balancing by changing tokens ■ New nodes on stream from only three neighbors ● Generates uneven CPU, disk load during join
- 14. Cassandra Virtual Nodes (vnodes, 2012) ■ Each node has N (typically 32 or 256) randomly assigned tokens Owned range Replica set A A
- 15. Advantages ■ Better data distribution $ ./shardsim --nodes 12 --vnodes 256 --shards 1 maximum node overcommit: 1.12073
- 16. Disadvantages ■ Many more replica sets ● Scans of small tables have to traverse 256*nr_nodes ranges ● Overhead can dominate scan time for near-empty tables ● 2 failures - Good likelihood of availability issue in a single zone deployment ■ Even worse for Cassandra secondary indexes (that are local to the node)
- 17. ScyllaDB Architecture: vnodes & shard per core Homogeneous nodes Ring Architecture
- 18. 2014 - ScyllaDB 0.1 shards ■ Introduce orthogonal distribution, internal to the node ■ Different nodes can have different shard counts Owned range Replica set Shard 0 Shard 1 Shard 2
- 19. Advantages ■ Per-shard data ownership removes need for locks
- 20. Disadvantages ■ Poor data distribution ● $ ./shardsim --nodes 12 --vnodes 256 --shards 30 --ignore-msb-bits 0 12 nodes, 256 vnodes, 30 shards maximum node overcommit: 1.11148 maximum shard overcommit: 2.512377 ■ Poor scan performance over near-empty tables ● Need to scan each vnode, then each shard’s intersection in the vnode
- 21. Owned range Replica set 2016 - ScyllaDB 1.6 - murmur3_ignore_msb_bits ■ Split token range into 4096*nr_shard ranges ■ Each shard owns 4096 ranges Shard 0 Shard 1 Shard 2 Shard 0 Shard 0 Shard 0 Shard 1 Shard 1 Shard 1 Shard 2 Shard 2 Shard 2
- 22. Advantages ■ Better data distribution ● $ ./shardsim --nodes 12 --vnodes 256 --shards 30 --ignore-msb-bits 12 12 nodes, 256 vnodes, 30 shards maximum node overcommit: 1.11791 maximum shard overcommit: 1.140437
- 23. Disadvantages ■ Even worse small-table performance ● 60 shards * 4096 per-shard subranges * 30 nodes * 256 vnodes = ??? ■ Terrible repair/streaming with mismatched shard counts ■ Complexity, bugs
- 24. Hello Tablets
- 25. Tablet History: ClayDB > Bigtable > ScyllaDB
- 26. ScyllaDB Tablet ■ A small range of keys (tokens) ■ Size of 5GB ■ Dynamic, per table ■ Dynamically assigned to nodes ■ A full LSM tree {compaction, sstable files, memtable} ■ Small table -> fit in a single tablets, great scan/index
- 27. The Tablets Table // Managed by the Raft protocol // Replicated on every node CREATE TABLE system.tablets ( table_id uuid, last_token bigint, keyspace_name text static, replicas list<tuple<uuid, int>>, new_replicas list<tuple<uuid, int>>, session uuid, stage text, transition text, table_name text static, tablet_count int static, PRIMARY KEY (table_id, last_token) );
- 28. RAFT Group 0 RAFT tablet table key1 key2 tablet tablet replica tablet replica
- 29. Tablets - balancing Table starts with a few tablets. Small tables end there Not fragmented into tiny pieces like with tokens
- 30. Tablets - balancing When tablet becomes too heavy (disk, CPU, …) it is split
- 31. Tablets - balancing When tablet becomes too heavy (disk, CPU, …) it is split
- 32. Tablets - balancing The load balancer can decide to move tablets
- 33. Tablets Resharding is cheap. SStables split at tablet boundary. Reassign tablets to shards (logical operation).
- 34. Tablets Cleanup after topology change is cheap. Just delete SStables.
- 35. Tablet Scheduler Scheduler globally controls movement, maintenance operation on a per tablet basis repair migration tablet 0 tablet 1 schedule schedule repair Backup
- 36. Tablet Scheduler Goals: ■ Maximize throughput (saturate) ■ Keep migrations short (don’t overload) Rules: ■ migrations-in <= 2 per shard ■ migrations-out <= 4 per shard
- 37. Sharding Considerations ■ Data distribution/fairness -> Perfect ■ Mixed node sizes, add/remove 5% in size ■ Multiple nodes operations - double capacity in minutes ■ Amount of node streams to/from single node ■ Scanning is efficient ■ Small tables are fast & efficient
- 38. ■ Drivers are tablet-aware ■ But without reading the tablets table ● Driver contacts a random node/shard ● On miss, gets updated routing information for that tablet ● Ensures fast start-up even with 100,000 entries in the tablets table Driver Support
- 39. ■ Fencing - each write is signed with topology version ■ If there is a version mismatch, the write doesn’t go through Changes in the Data Plane Replica Coordinator Topology coordinator R e q ( V 1 ) Req(V 1 ) F e n c e ( V 1 ) D r a i n ( V 1 ) Req(V 2 )
- 41. Tablet Tablet Tablet Tablet Add node stream first tablet Tablet Tablet Tablet Tablet
- 42. Tablet Tablet Tablet Tablet Add node - start serving Tablet Tablet Tablet Tablet Start Serving reads/writes
- 43. Demo time
- 44. Not a demo, a test suite
- 45. Tablets => Serverless Time Volu me ie3n’s i4i Time Thr oug hpu t Capacity Required Time Thr oug hpu t On-demand Base Typeless Sizeless limitless
- 46. Serverless tests (even more)
- 47. Thank you! Let’s connect. @DorLaor