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  2. FLUME-1906

Ability to disable WAL for put operation in HBaseSink

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        • Type: Improvement Improvement
        • Status: Resolved
        • Priority: Major Major
        • Resolution: Fixed
        • Affects Version/s: v1.3.1
        • Fix Version/s: v1.4.0
        • Component/s: Sinks+Sources
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          Description

          HBase supports setWriteToWAL(boolean) in Put to write edits to WAL or not. User can specify the disable option in HBase sink configurations.

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            FLUME-1906.patch
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            Hari Shreedharan
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            FLUME-1906-1.patch
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            Hari Shreedharan

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              Hari Shreedharan added a comment -

              Doing this would void Flume's delivery guarantee no? (not exactly Flume's guarantee, but still the data would not be persisted to disk).

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              Hari Shreedharan added a comment - Doing this would void Flume's delivery guarantee no? (not exactly Flume's guarantee, but still the data would not be persisted to disk).
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              Seyed added a comment -

              Doing this would void Flume's delivery guarantee no? (not exactly Flume's guarantee, but still the data would not be persisted to disk).

              If Region-server crashes then whatever data in memstore will be lost (provided region flush size is tuned appropriately). This option helps hbase ops to dynamically enable/diable WAL to save disk space in HDFS (i think flume agent needs to be restarted to see the updated hbase sink config?).

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              Seyed added a comment - Doing this would void Flume's delivery guarantee no? (not exactly Flume's guarantee, but still the data would not be persisted to disk). If Region-server crashes then whatever data in memstore will be lost (provided region flush size is tuned appropriately). This option helps hbase ops to dynamically enable/diable WAL to save disk space in HDFS (i think flume agent needs to be restarted to see the updated hbase sink config?).
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              Hari Shreedharan added a comment -

              The flume agent does not need to restart. If the config file is updated, flume will pick it up automatically and reload all components. I am just a bit concerned about completing the transaction on the sink side without the data being persisted. This could potentially cause debugging issues.

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              Hari Shreedharan added a comment - The flume agent does not need to restart. If the config file is updated, flume will pick it up automatically and reload all components. I am just a bit concerned about completing the transaction on the sink side without the data being persisted. This could potentially cause debugging issues.
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              Mubarak Seyed added a comment -

              I am just a bit concerned about completing the transaction on the sink side without the data being persisted. This could potentially cause debugging issues.

              I think it is a trade-off by giving up durability (for yet-to-flush in-memory data) to save disk space in HDFS. There are some instances where ops runs hbase clusters with WAL turned off to save 3 copies of WAL data in HDFS. if config changes for WAL then we can add a INFO in log for easy debugging.

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              Mubarak Seyed added a comment - I am just a bit concerned about completing the transaction on the sink side without the data being persisted. This could potentially cause debugging issues. I think it is a trade-off by giving up durability (for yet-to-flush in-memory data) to save disk space in HDFS. There are some instances where ops runs hbase clusters with WAL turned off to save 3 copies of WAL data in HDFS. if config changes for WAL then we can add a INFO in log for easy debugging.
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              Mubarak Seyed added a comment -

              Thanks for the patch Hari! Pushed to trunk & flume-1.4 branch.

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              Mubarak Seyed added a comment - Thanks for the patch Hari! Pushed to trunk & flume-1.4 branch.
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              Hudson added a comment -

              Integrated in flume-trunk #362 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/flume-trunk/362/)
              FLUME-1906 Ability to disable WAL for put operation in HBaseSink (Revision 510f63ba39592e7912a85c35effb8be52699057a)

              Result = SUCCESS
              mubarak : http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flume/repo?p=flume.git&a=commit&h=510f63ba39592e7912a85c35effb8be52699057a
              Files :

              • flume-ng-sinks/flume-ng-hbase-sink/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/sink/hbase/HBaseSink.java
              • flume-ng-sinks/flume-ng-hbase-sink/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/sink/hbase/AsyncHBaseSink.java
              • flume-ng-sinks/flume-ng-hbase-sink/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/sink/hbase/HBaseSinkConfigurationConstants.java
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              Hudson added a comment - Integrated in flume-trunk #362 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/flume-trunk/362/ ) FLUME-1906 Ability to disable WAL for put operation in HBaseSink (Revision 510f63ba39592e7912a85c35effb8be52699057a) Result = SUCCESS mubarak : http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flume/repo?p=flume.git&a=commit&h=510f63ba39592e7912a85c35effb8be52699057a Files : flume-ng-sinks/flume-ng-hbase-sink/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/sink/hbase/HBaseSink.java flume-ng-sinks/flume-ng-hbase-sink/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/sink/hbase/AsyncHBaseSink.java flume-ng-sinks/flume-ng-hbase-sink/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/sink/hbase/HBaseSinkConfigurationConstants.java
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              Hari Shreedharan added a comment -

              Adding the review link for posterity.

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              Hari Shreedharan added a comment - Adding the review link for posterity.

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                  Hari Shreedharan
                  Reporter:
                  Mubarak Seyed
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