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Compatibility with segment replication #4444

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dreamer-89 opened this issue Jun 29, 2023 · 3 comments
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Compatibility with segment replication #4444

dreamer-89 opened this issue Jun 29, 2023 · 3 comments
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enhancement New feature or request v2.9.0

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dreamer-89 commented Jun 29, 2023

Summary

With 2.9.0 release, there are lot of enhancements going in for segment replication[1][2] feature (went GA in 2.7.0), we need to ensure different plugins are compatible with current state of this feature. Previously, we ran tests on plugin repos to verify this compatibility but want plugin owners to be aware of these changes so that required updates (if any) can be made. With 2.10.0 release, remote store feature is going GA which internally uses SEGMENT replication strategy only i.e. it enforces all indices to use SEGMENT replication strategy. So, it is important to validate plugins are compatible with segment replication feature.

What changed

1. Refresh policy behavior

  1. RefreshPolicy.IMMEDIATE will only refresh primary shards but not replica shards immediately. Instead post refresh, primary will start a round of segment replication to update the replica shard copies leading to eventual consistency.
  2. RefreshPolicy.WAIT_UNTIL ensures the indexing operation is searchable in your cluster i.e. RAW (Read after write guarantee). With segment replication, this guarantee is not promised due to delay in replica shared updates from asynchronous background refreshes.

2. Refresh lag on replicas

With segment replication, there is inherent delay in documents to be searchable on replica shard copies. This is due to the fact that replica shard copies over data (segment) files from primary. Thus, compared to document replication, there will be on average increase in amount of time the replica shards are consistent with primaries.

3. System/hidden indices support

With opensearch-project/OpenSearch#8200, system and hidden indices are now supported with SEGMENT replication strategy. We need to ensure there are no bottlenecks which prevents system/hidden indices with segment replication.

Next steps

With segment replication strong reads are not guaranteed. Thus, if the plugin needs strong reads guarantees specially as alternative to change in behavior of refresh policy and lag on replicas (point 1 and 2 above), we need to update search requests to target primary shard only. With opensearch-project/OpenSearch#7375, core now supports primary shards only based search. Please follow documentation for examples and details

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In case of any questions or issues, please post it in core issue

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[1] Design

[2] Documentation

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Request owners to add v2.9.0 label on this issue.

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Hi Plugin Owners,
Gentle reminder to look into this issue as code freeze date for 2.9.0 release is near i.e. July 11th.

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We have opened an issue to address the effects of this change on Dashboards for 2.10 release. For 2.9 we are good as we are not using segment replication type on indices.
#4522

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