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Two data center (2DC)

  • 1. Set up
    • Producer universe
    • Consumer universe
  • 2. Unidirectional (aka master-follower) replication
  • 3. Bidirectional (aka multi-master) replication
  • 4. Load data into producer universe
  • 5. Verify replication

Recommended Reading

9 Techniques to Build Cloud-Native, Geo-Distributed SQL Apps with Low Latency highlights the various multi-DC deployment strategies (including 2DC deployments) for a distributed SQL database like YugabyteDB.

For details on the two data center (2DC) deployment architecture and supported replication scenarios, see Two data center (2DC) deployments.

Follow the steps below to set up a 2DC deployment using either unidirectional (aka master-follower) or bidirectional (aka multi-master) replication between the data centers.

1. Set up

Producer universe

To create the producer universe, follow these steps.

  1. Create the “yugabyte-producer” universe using the Manual deployment steps.

  2. Create the the tables for the APIs being used.

Consumer universe

To create the consumer universe, follow these steps.

  1. Create the “yugabyte-consumer” universe using the Manual deployment steps.

  2. Create the tables for the APIs being used.

Make sure to create the same tables as you did for the producer universe.

After creating the required tables, you can now set up asysnchronous replication using the steps below.

2. Unidirectional (aka master-follower) replication

  1. Look up the producer universe UUID and the table IDs for the two tables and the index table on master UI.

  2. Run the following yb-admin setup_universe_replication command from the YugabyteDB home directory in the producer universe.

./bin/yb-admin -master_addresses <consumer_universe_master_addresses>
setup_universe_replication <producer_universe_uuid>
  <producer_universe_master_addresses>
  <table_id>,[<table_id>..]

Example

./bin/yb-admin -master_addresses 127.0.0.11:7100,127.0.0.12:7100,127.0.0.13:7100 \
setup_universe_replication e260b8b6-e89f-4505-bb8e-b31f74aa29f3 \
	127.0.0.1:7100,127.0.0.2:7100,127.0.0.3:7100 \
	000030a5000030008000000000004000,000030a5000030008000000000004005,dfef757c415c4b2cacc9315b8acb539a

Note

There should be three table IDs in the command above — two of those are YSQL for base table and index, and one for YCQL table. Also, make sure to specify all master addresses for both producer and consumer universes in the command.

3. Bidirectional (aka multi-master) replication

To set up bidirectional replication, follow the steps above in the Unidirectional replication section above and then do the same steps for the the “yugabyte-consumer” universe.

Note that this time, “yugabyte-producer” will be set up to consume data from “yugabyte-consumer”.

4. Load data into producer universe

  1. Download the YugabyteDB workload generator JAR file (yb-sample-apps.jar) from GitHub.

  2. Start loading data into “yugabyte-producer” using the YugabyteDB workload generator JAR.

YSQL example

java -jar yb-sample-apps.jar --workload SqlSecondaryIndex  --nodes 127.0.0.1:5433

YCQL example

java -jar yb-sample-apps.jar --workload CassandraBatchKeyValue --nodes 127.0.0.1:9042

For bidirectional replication, repeat this step in the "yugabyte-consumer" universe.

5. Verify replication

For unidirectional replication

Connect to “yugabyte-consumer” universe using the YSQL shell (ysqlsh) or the YCQL shell (ycqlsh), and then confirm that you can see expected records.

For bidirectional replication

Repeat the steps above, but pump data into “yugabyte-consumer”. To avoid primary key conflict errors, keep the key space for the two universes separate.

How to check replication lag

Replication lag is computed at the tablet level as:

replication lag = hybrid_clock_time - last_read_hybrid_time
  • hybrid_clock_time: The hybrid clock timestamp on the producer's tablet-server.
  • last_read_hybrid_time: The hybrid clock timestamp of the latest transaction pulled from the producer.

An example script determine_replication_lag.sh calculates replication lag for you. The script requires the jq package.

In the example below, a replication lag summary is generated for all tables on a cluster. You can also request an individual table:

$ ./determine_repl_latency.sh -h
determine_repl_latency.sh -m MASTER_IP1:PORT,MASTER_IP2:PORT,MASTER_IP3:PORT [ -c PATH_TO_SSL_CERTIFICATE ] (-k KEYSPACE -t TABLENAME | -a) [ -p PORT ] [ -r report ] [ -o output ] [ -u units ]
Options:
  -m | --master_addresses       Comma separated list of master_server ip addresses with optional port numbers [default 7100]
  -c | --certs_dir_name         Path to directory containing SSL certificates if TLS node-to-node encryption is enabled
  -k | --keyspace               Name of keyspace that contains the table that is being queried. YSQL keyspaces must be prefixed with ysql
  -t | --table_name             Name of table
  -a | --all_tables             Specify this flag instead of -k and -t if you want all tables in the universe included
  -p | --port                   Port number of tablet server metrics page [default 9000]
  -r | --report_type            Possible values: all,detail,summary [default all]
  -o | --output_type            Possible values: report,csv [default report]
  -u | --units                  Possible values: us (microseconds), ms (milliseconds) [default ms]
  -h | --help                   This message


./determine_repl_latency.sh -m 10.150.255.114,10.150.255.115,10.150.255.113
  • 1. Set up
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  • 2. Unidirectional (aka master-follower) replication
  • 3. Bidirectional (aka multi-master) replication
  • 4. Load data into producer universe
  • 5. Verify replication
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