HBase Consistency and Performance Improvements
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The document discusses improvements to consistency and performance in HBase. It describes how HBase maintains consistency using timestamps and multi-version concurrency control. It identifies issues that could cause inconsistent reads and explains how storing timestamps in HFiles resolves it. The document also outlines several performance improvements in HBase 0.94 like checksum caching, deleting expired files, HLog compression and lazy-seeking.
![HBase Consistency
• ACID guarantees within a single row
• “Any row returned by the scan will be a
consistent view (i.e. that version of the
complete row existed at some point in
time)”[1]
[1] http://hbase.apache.org/acid-semantics.html
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HBase Consistency and Performance Improvements
- 1. June 13, 2012 HBase Consistency and Performance Improvements Esteban Gu+errez, Gregory Chanan {esteban, gchanan}@cloudera.com
- 2. HBase Consistency • ACID guarantees within a single row • “Any row returned by the scan will be a consistent view (i.e. that version of the complete row existed at some point in time)”[1] [1] http://hbase.apache.org/acid-semantics.html 2 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 3. HBase Consistency Issues • Write Consistency Issues • Read Consistency Issues 3 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 4. Write Consistency HBASE-4552 • Importing Multiple CFs HFiles is not an atomic operation 4 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 5. Write Consistency HBASE-4552 • Importing Multiple CFs HFiles was not an atomic operation is 5 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 6. Write Consistency HBASE-4552 HRegion.bulkLoadHFile() HFile1: HFile2: HFile3: HFile4: Row 1 fam1:col1 fam2:col2 fam3:col3 fam4:col4 val1 T1 Scan T2 Scan val1 val2 T3 Scan val1 val2 val3 T4 Scan val1 val2 val3 val4 < HBase 0.90.5 6 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 7. Write Consistency HBASE-4552 HRegion.bulkLoadHFiles() HFile1: HFile2: HFile3: HFile4: Row 1 fam1:col1 fam2:col2 fam3:col3 fam4:col4 T1 Scan public void bulkLoadHFiles(List<Pair<byte[], String>> familyPaths) {! ...! startRegionOperation(); ç lock.writeLock().lock()! T2 Scan } finally {! closeBulkRegionOperation(); ! }! T3 Scan ...! ! T4 Scan ≥ HBase 0.90.5 7 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 8. Write Consistency HBASE-4552 HRegion.bulkLoadHFiles() HFile1: HFile2: HFile3: HFile4: Row 1 fam1:col1 fam2:col2 fam3:col3 fam4:col4 T1 Scan public void bulkLoadHFiles(List<Pair<byte[], String>> familyPaths) {! ...! startRegionOperation(); ! T2 Scan } finally {! closeBulkRegionOperation(); ç lock.writeLock().unlock()! }! T3 Scan ...! ! T4 Scan ≥ HBase 0.90.5 8 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 9. Write Consistency HBASE-4552 HRegion.bulkLoadHFiles() HFile1: HFile2: HFile3: HFile4: Row 1 fam1:col1 fam2:col2 fam3:col3 fam4:col4 T1 Scan public void bulkLoadHFiles(List<Pair<byte[], String>> familyPaths) {! ...! startRegionOperation(); ! T2 Scan } finally {! closeBulkRegionOperation(); ! }! T3 Scan ...! ! T4 Scan val1 val2 val3 val4 ≥ HBase 0.90.5 9 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 10. Read Consistency HBASE-2856 • Seen only twice in the wilderness • Hard to detect if application monitoring is not implemented 10 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 11. Read Consistency HBASE-2856 • Table size ≈ 50 M records • Large number of CFs • New records are continuously added to the table • Concurrent MR Jobs on the same table • Cluster has to meet strict SLAs 11 ©2011 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 12. Read Consistency HBASE-2856 Symptoms Run 1 … … … SPLIT_RAW_FILES … Map-Reduce Framework Map output records 500,000 12 ©2011 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 13. Read Consistency HBASE-2856 Symptoms Run 1 Run 2 … … … … SPLIT_RAW_FILES … … Map-Reduce Framework Map output records 500,000 499,997 13 ©2011 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 14. Read Consistency HBASE-2856 Symptoms Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 … … … … … SPLIT_RAW_FILES … … … Map-Reduce Framework Map output records 500,000 499,997 500,001 14 ©2011 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 15. Read Consistency HBASE-2856 Symptoms Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 … … … … … SPLIT_RAW_FILES … … … Map-Reduce Framework Map output records 500,000 499,997 500,001 cf1:col1 cf2:col2 cf3:col3 cf1:col1 cf2:col2 cf3:col3 cf1:col1 15 ©2011 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 16. Read Consistency HBASE-2856 Symptoms Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 … … … … … SPLIT_RAW_FILES … … … Map-Reduce Framework Map output records 500,000 499,997 500,001 cf1:col1 cf2:col2 cf3:col3 cf1:col1 cf2:col2 cf3:col3 cf1:col1 Scale testing shows between 0.5% to 2% of inconsistent results between runs 16 ©2011 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 17. Read Consistency HBASE-2856 Impact • Result is used to update user facing records • Customer is not happy 17 ©2011 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 18. Read Consistency HBASE-2856 Impact • Result is used to update user facing records • Customer is not happy — “Where is my data?” 18 ©2011 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 19. Read Consistency HBASE-2856 Workarounds • Re-try scan if not all CFs are present • Re-submit job if any inconsistency is found 19 ©2011 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 20. Read Consistency HBASE-2856 Workarounds • Re-try scan if not all CFs are present • Re-submit job if any inconsistency is found • Sometimes that is not possible 20 ©2011 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 21. Read Consistency HBASE-2856 Workarounds • Re-try scan if not all CFs are present • Re-submit job if any inconsistency is found • Sometimes that is not possible SLAs! 21 ©2011 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 22. MVCC • HBase maintains ACID semantics using Multiversion Concurrency Control • Instead of overwriting state, create a new version of object with timestamp Timestamp Row fam1:col1 fam2:col2 t1 row1 val1 val1 22 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 23. MVCC • HBase maintains ACID semantics using Multiversion Concurrency Control • Instead of overwriting state, create a new version of object with timestamp Timestamp Row fam1:col1 fam2:col2 t2 row1 val2 val2 t1 row1 val1 val1 • Reads never have to block • Note this timestamp is not externally visible! Internally called “memStoreTs” 23 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 24. HBase Write Path 1. Write to WAL (per RegionServer) 2. Write to In-Memory Sorted Map (MemStore) (per Region+ColumnFamily) 3. Flush MemStore to disk as HFile when MemStore hits configurable hbase.hregion.memstore.flush.size 24 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 25. Internals / Bug Now that we know the internals – what could go wrong? 25 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 26. Putting it together Let’s go back to the beginning… MemStore Timestamp Row fam1:col1 fam2:col2 t1 row1 val1 val1 26 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 27. Putting it together Let’s go back to the beginning… MemStore Timestamp Row fam1:col1 fam2:col2 t1 row1 val1 val1 And start a scan. 27 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 28. Putting it together Let’s go back to the beginning… MemStore Timestamp Row fam1:col1 fam2:col2 t2 row1 val2 val2 t1 row1 val1 val1 And start a scan. And concurrently put. 28 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 29. Putting it together Let’s go back to the beginning… MemStore Timestamp Row fam1:col1 fam2:col2 t2 row1 val2 val2 t1 row1 val1 val1 And start a scan. HFile And concurrently put. Row fam2:col2: Which causes a flush. row1 val2 row1 val1 29 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 30. Putting it together Now, scan needs to make sense of this… MemStore Ts Row fam1:col1 t2 row1 val2 t1 row1 val1 HFile Row fam2:col2: row1 val2 row1 val1 30 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 31. Putting it together Now, scan needs to make sense of this… MemStore Ts Row fam1:col1 t2 row1 val2 t1 row1 val1 HFile Row fam2:col2: row1 val2 row1 val1 But HFile has no timestamp! 31 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 32. Putting it together Now, scan needs to make sense of this… MemStore Ts Row fam1:col1 t2 row1 val2 t1 row1 val1 HFile Inconsistent Result Row fam2:col2: Row fam1:col1 fam2:col2 row1 val2 row1 val1 val2 row1 val1 But HFile has no timestamp! 32 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 33. Solution Store the timestamp in the Hfile MemStore HFile Ts Row fam1:col1 Ts Row fam2:col2: t2 row1 val2 t2 row1 val2 t1 row1 val1 t1 row1 val1 Correct Result Row fam1:col1 fam2:col2 row1 val1 val2 Now we have all the information we need 33 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 34. Consistency • Only some of the consistency issues in 0.90 – e.g. HBASE-5121: MajorCompaction may affect scan's correctness • Solution: Upgrade to 0.92 or 0.94 34 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 35. HBase 0.94 “Performance Release” 35 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 36. Performance Improvements in 0.94 • HBASE-5047 Support checksums in HBase block cache • HBASE-5199 Delete out of TTL store files before compaction selection • HBASE-4608 HLog Compression • HBASE-4465 Lazy-seek optimization for StoreFile scanners 36 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 37. Performance Improvements in 0.94 • HBASE-5047 Support checksums in HBase block cache • HBASE-5199 Delete out of TTL store files before compaction selection • HBASE-4608 HLog Compression • HBASE-4465 Lazy-seek optimization for StoreFile scanners 37 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 38. HBASE-5047 • HDFS stores checksum is separate file HFile Checksum • So each file read actually requires two disk iops • HBase often bottlenecked by random disk ipos 38 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 39. HBASE-5047 Solution • Solution: Store checksum in HFile block HFile HFile Block Chksum Data • On by default (“hbase.regionserver.checksum.verify”) • Bytes per checksum (“hbase.hstore.bytes.per.checksum”) – default is 16K 39 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 40. Performance Improvements in 0.94 • HBASE-5047 Support checksums in HBase block cache • HBASE-5199 Delete out of TTL store files before compaction selection • HBASE-4608 HLog Compression • HBASE-4465 Lazy-seek optimization for StoreFile scanners 40 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 41. HBASE-5199 • User can specify TTL per column family • If all values in the HFile are expired, delete HFile rather than compact • Off by default, turn on via ("hbase.store.delete.expired.storefile“) 41 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 42. Conclusion • Most consistency issues fixed in 0.92/ CDH4 • Performance improvements in 0.94 • 0.94 is wire compatible with 0.92, so will be in a CDH4 update 42 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 43. References • HBase Acid Semantics, http://hbase.apache.org/acid-semantics.html • Apache HBase Meetup @ SU, Michael Stack. http://files.meetup.com/ 1350427/20120327hbase_meetup.pdf • HBase Internals, Lars Hofhansl. http://www.cloudera.com/resource/hbasecon-2012- learning-hbase-internals/ 43 ©2012 Cloudera, Inc. All Rights Reserved.