TBSchedule 4.1.2 Released

[jasonjoo2010]

Intro

TBSchedule is a non-centralised, zookeeper adapted, console included, task/strategy supported and light-weight scheduling-in-place library from taobao(taobao.com). It was released as an open source project in about (2010~2012) by Taobao in the website http://code.taobao.org/p/tbschedule (But it has been down in 2017), with no license given. And after that it seems that there is no further developing on it.

It's not a common distributed scheduling framework like ones support external shell, uploaded jars, cross languages and etc. Its main purpose is the scenarios of spring-quartz but don't settle for quartz's design of High Availability and Clustering. It's another choice to try with.

Project location(Under Apache® License): https://github.com/jasonjoo2010/tbschedule

Evolution

Traditional Versions (3.3.3.2 and earlier)

It uses zookeeper communicating with zookeeper server directly and sometimes suffers jitters on unstable connections. Surely only zookeeper storage is supported.

A console server is provided as a client tool to manage the strategies, tasks and do operations under specified namespace.

But there are problems in integrating:

• Use log4j for logging but not interface.
• Console is mixed with core library.
• Workers' distribution always includes the leader node. Which leads heavier load on leader.
• Some small bugs when do operations.

Enhanced Versions (3.3.4 to 4.0.x)

Enhanced versions solve all the problem in traditional version and:

• Separate console to an individual module.
• Make zookeeper up to date.
• Integrate slf4j as logging library.
• Shuffle first when do new scheduling.
• Introduce extension module. (4.0.x)
• Introduce curator. (4.0.x)
• Restructure console into spring-boot project. (4.0.x)
• Publish to maven central repository. (Under group id com.yoloho.schedule)

So in 4.0.x you can use tbschedule easily (included in central repo) and logging friendly (slf4j) and more balanced (workers load balancing). If you implement queue consumer using Redis' list you can easily use tbschedule-extension-task to do it.

But it's not the end.

For more adaptive, it's not enough to support zookeeper only. It should change depend on what the project use. For example a redis/jdbc only project we should not have to introduce a zookeeper cluster for scheduling. And also we should provide easier ways to integrate like xml/annotations.

For more international, we should make more documentation using english.

For more reliable, we should write more unit tests.

For learn easily, we should provide some demonstrations.

So that's why 4.1.x is raised.

Multiple Storages (4.1.x)

Over half of codes have been restructured. SPI is used to support different default storage implementation and it also can be specified manually. Which means we can use multiple storages together in single project (If there's such scenario, eg. memory and zookeeper together).

Here are storages supported:

• Memory. For local only scheduling driven by annotations. (EnableScheduleMemory/Strategy/Task)
• Zookeeper. (By curator-framework)
• Redis. (By enhanced-cache)

JDBC is on the way.

In spring boot it's easy to initialize:

@EnableSchedule(
    // Storage is zookeeper by default
    address = "192.168.123.106:2181",
    rootPath = "/test/demo/tmp",
    username = "test",
    password = "test"
)

And then you can raise a console instance locally which has been packed and uploaded into maven central repository to manage the tasks and strategies.

Details please refer to: https://github.com/jasonjoo2010/tbschedule

Summary

It borns to be a light-weight and flexible scheduling and hope it could be a good choice on this.

Thanks to the Taobao's tbschedule. Thanks to their spirit of open source. Thanks to Xuannan who has done most of the contribution of Taobao's tbschedule.