Riak KV 3.0.2 Release Notes

Released Jan 05, 2021.

Overview

This release improves the performance and stability of the leveled backend and of AAE folds. These performance improvements are based on feedback from deployments with > 1bn keys per cluster.

The particular improvements are:

  • In leveled, caching of individual file scores so not all files are required to be scored each journal compaction run.

  • In leveled, a change to the default journal compaction scoring percentages to make longer runs more likely (i.e. achieve more compaction per scoring run).

  • In leveled, a change to the caching of SST file block-index in the ledger, that makes repeated folds with a last modified date range an order of magnitude faster and more computationally efficient.

  • In leveled, a fix to prevent very long list-buckets queries when buckets have just been deleted (by erasing all keys).

  • In kv_index_tictcatree, improved logging and exchange controls to make exchanges easier to monitor and less likely to prompt unnecessary work.

  • In kv_index_tictcatree, a change to speed-up the necessary rebuilds of aae tree-caches following a node crash, by only testing journal presence in scheduled rebuilds.

  • In riak_kv_ttaaefs_manager, some essential fixes to prevent excessive CPU load when comparing large volumes of keys and clocks, due to a failure to decode clocks correctly before passing to the exchange.

Further significant improvements have been made to Tictac AAE full-sync, to greatly improve the efficiency of operation when there exists relatively large deltas between relatively large clusters (in terms of key counts). Those changes, which introduce the use of ‘day_check’, ‘hour_check’ and ‘range_check’ options to nval-based full-sync will be available in a future 3.0.2 release of Riak. For those wishing to use Tictac AAE full-sync at a non-trivial scale, it is recommended moving straight to 3.0.2 when it is available.

Previous Release Notes

Please see the KV 3.0.1 release notes here and the KV 2.9.7 release notes here.