CouchDB 4.0: 1 + 2 = 4!

CouchDB 4.0 unifies the best features of CouchDB 2.x with the consistent semantics of CouchDB 1.x. Learn more in this presentation from the CouchDB Users' Group in Berlin, Germany from October 2019.

1. Joan Touzet ❦ https://atypical.net/ ❦ wohali
2. CouchDB & Apache Contributor / User (~2008) Committer (Feb 2013) PMC member (April 2014) ASF Member (2015) Apache Board of Directors (2019) 2
4. • The “original” NoSQL (…but we were provably first!) • Document-oriented structure • Map-Reduce • Streaming changes feeds 4
6. • Couch file – holds a binary tree (B-Tree) – 1 file per database or view group (1 design document =1 view group) – Databases: indexed by ID and by sequence number – Views: holds one binary tree, key space per view in a design doc • replicator – “just a client process”. – Source  Target. Multi-master & bidirectional. • http layer + authentication 6
7. CouchDB 1.x, by itself, was a fully consistent database. Unintentionally. When replicating with another DB, it was eventually consistent, but with document conflicts. 7
8. 8 bob v1 bob v1 bob v2a bob v2b bob v2a v2b bob v2a v2b
9. 9 Clustered HTTP Clustered CouchDB API Layer (Dynamo Model) Low-latency, Highly parallel Remote call (RPC) library Magic “consistent” shard mapping database “basically” CouchDB 1.x, but with enhancements
10. CouchDB 2.x has native clustering functionality “Internal replication” is optimized for this process CouchDB 2.x shards the database for optimization CouchDB has no leader election or “global coordinator”! 10
11. 11 q = # of shards (default: 8) (4 here for a good picture) n = number of replicas (default: 3)
12. 12 CouchDB 1.x CouchDB 2.x HTTP 1 2 3 Erlang
13. 13 bob v1 bob v1 bob v1 00:00.000
14. 14 bob v2a bob v1 bob v2b 00:01.000
15. 15 bob v2a bob v2b bob v2b 00:01.001
16. 16 bob v2a bob v2b bob v2b ✕ 00:01.002
17. 17 bob v2a bob v2b bob v2b ✕ ✕ 00:01.003
18. 18 bob v2a bob v2b bob v2b copies = 2 n = 3 Quorum OK copies = 1 n = 3 Quorum NG 00:01.004 Quorum: ≥ +1 2 copies
19. 19 bob v2a bob v2b bob v2b copies = 2 n = 3 Quorum OK copies = 1 n = 3 Quorum NG 201 Created 00:01.009 202 Accepted
20. 20 bob v2a bob v2b bob v2a bob v2b bob v2a bob v2b 00:01.010 bob v2a “arbitrarily” wins!
21. You bet. But that’s eventual consistency for you. Q: What if “Blue” and “Purple” are the same app with 2 consecutive writes?! Applications need to design around this: • Single application writer per document, or • Clearly defined hand-offs between different stages of processing, or • Stream-based model (documents never modified), or • Database-per-user model 21
22. CouchDB 3.0 will be “the best CouchDB 2.x,” adding: • Per-document access restrictions • Automated shard splitting • Automatic view warming • Better automatic compaction • “Ready for Lucene Search” (without a recompile) • Optional highly tunable I/O queue (IOQ2) • …plus a long-term support (LTS) strategy • …and the same semantics as CouchDB 2.x. 22
23. CouchDB 4.0 will have a new storage layer based on FoundationDB. • Fully consistent, distributed data store • 10 years in the making by a dedicated development team • Intended as the underlying infrastructure for other Databases only • CouchDB implemented as a “Layer” on top of FoundationDB – CouchDB 4.0 is a completely stateless application layer for FoundationDB. 23
24. 24 • CouchDB FDB Layer implements CouchDB (1.x) semantics and indexes • FDB is a consistent MVCC key-value store using PAXOS coordination and a transactional authority • FDB can be a single instance (on your Raspberry Pi or laptop) or a cluster of hundreds of Linux machines
25. • Written in C++, using actor-based concurrency (very similar to Erlang) • Uses ACID-compliant transactions – This allows us to bring back CouchDB 1.x semantics! (And keep our ‘crash-proof’ design.) – User-visible transactions may come to a future CouchDB! • Imposes some restrictions: – 10MB per transaction – 5 seconds per transaction – Keys and values have size restrictions (10k and 100k respectively) • CouchDB documents will be broken up into multiple FoundationDB keys and values 25
26. • CouchDB 4.0 will have: – CouchDB 1.0 semantics – CouchDB 2.0 clustering – Plus more new features yet to be announced. 26
27. 27 Joan Touzet ❦ https://atypical.net/ ❦ wohali