Introduction 

Phase 1 of replication is to support a hot-cold setup where CDAP data is replicated from one cluster to another using existing tools for replicating underlying infrastructure.

Goals

Allow manual failover from a hot cluster to a cold cluster.

User Stories 

• As a cluster administrator, I want to be able to configure CDAP so that all HBase tables created by CDAP are set up to replicate data to another cluster
• As a cluster administrator, I want to be able to manually stop CDAP in one cluster and start it in another cluster with the exact same state
• As a cluster administrator, I want to be able to have a way to know when it is safe to start the cold cluster after the hot one has been shut down

Design

CDAP stores state in several systems:

HDFS

• Transaction snapshots
• Artifacts (jars)
• Streams
• FileSet based datasets
• Program logs

HBase

• CDAP entity metadata (program specifications, schedules, run history, metrics, etc.)
• Table based datasets
• Kafka offsets for metrics and logs

Kafka

• unprocessed metrics
• unsaved log messages

Hive

• Explorable CDAP datasets and their partitions

For phase 1, much of the responsiblity for data replication falls to the cluster administrator. It is assumed that replication of HDFS, Hive, and Kafka will be handled by the cluster administrator. HDFS is usually done through regularly scheduled distcp jobs, or by using some distro specific tools, such as Cloudera's Backup and Data Recovery (http://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/cm_bdr_about.html). Kafka can be done using MirrorMaker. Hive can be done by replicating the data (HDFS and/or HBase), and by replication the metastore through whatever replication mechanisms are available to the relational DB behind the metastore. All of this can be setup outside of CDAP.

HBase DDL

HBase, however, will require some hooks in CDAP, because replication must be setup for every table when it is created, and before any data is written to it. CDAP will define an interface to create, modify, and delete HBase tables.  By default, it will be implemented by the current code, which only creates tables in the local HBase instance.  Another implementation can be used by setting a property in cdap-site.xml that specifies the class to use. The jar containing the class must be included in the cdap classpath.  This custom class could, for example, make an http call to an external service to create the needed hbase tables.

Interface to be put here

Replication Status

Cluster administrators will require a way to tell when it is safe for a cold cluster to be started up. In other words, they need to be able to tell when all necessary data has been replicated.

Kafka offset mismatches

MirrorMaker is not much more than a Kafka client that consumes from source topics and writes the same messages to some destination. As such, partitions and offsets are not guaranteed to be the same. The log saver, metrics processor, and their corresponding fetch endpoints will need to be able to handle the fact that Kafka offsets can be different in the hot and cold clusters.

Approach

Approach #1

Approach #2

API changes

New Programmatic APIs

New Java APIs introduced (both user facing and internal)

Deprecated Programmatic APIs

New REST APIs

Deprecated REST API

CLI Impact or Changes

• Impact #1
• Impact #2
• Impact #3

UI Impact or Changes

• Impact #1
• Impact #2
• Impact #3

Security Impact 

What's the impact on Authorization and how does the design take care of this aspect

Impact on Infrastructure Outages 

System behavior (if applicable - document impact on downstream [ YARN, HBase etc ] component failures) and how does the design take care of these aspect

Test Scenarios

Releases

Release 4.0.0

Release X.Y.Z

Related Work

• Work #1
• Work #2
• Work #3

Future work