[jira] [Created] (ACCUMULO-3842) [UMBRELLA] Remove non-transient data from ZooKeeper

["Josh Elser (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Josh Elser created ACCUMULO-3842:
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             Summary: [UMBRELLA] Remove non-transient data from ZooKeeper
                 Key: ACCUMULO-3842
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3842
             Project: Accumulo
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: client, tserver
            Reporter: Josh Elser
             Fix For: 1.8.0


Wanted to start brainstorming about this.

We store a lot of persistent data in ZooKeeper that would better stored in something backed by HDFS. ZooKeeper can be a very convenient place to store persisted data so that it's available to all nodes, but it comes at a price and often must be asynchronously accessed to achieve good performance.

* Table/Namespace configuration
* Users/Authorizations
* Problem reports (maybe?)
* System configuration overrides (maybe?)

Some benefits we'd see from this:

* Loss of ZooKeeper doesn't lose table configuration and users.
* Greatly reduce zookeeper watchers (assume watchers=50*num_tables*num_tservers)
* Consistent updates of table constraints and all other table properties

The last note is the most important one IMO. The number of test issues alone that we've had with constraints not being seen on all servers are bound to affect users.



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