Comdb2 is a clustered RDBMS built on Optimistic Concurrency Control techniques. It provides multiple isolation levels, including Snapshot and Serializable Isolation. Read/Write transactions run on any node, with client library transparently negotiating connections to lowest cost (latency) node which is available. Client library provides transparent reconnect.
Work on Comdb2 was started at Bloomberg LP in 2004 and it has been under heavy development since. More information about the architecture of the project can be found in our VLDB 2016 paper and for more information on usage please look in the Docs.
Comdb2 documentation is included in the docs directory.
It can be hosted locally with jekyll by running jekyll serve from the docs directory.
On every machine in the cluster:
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Make sure all machines in the cluster can talk to each other via ssh. Copy keys around if needed.
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Install prerequisites:
** Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10 **
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential bison flex libprotobuf-c-dev \ libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libunwind-dev libz1 libz-dev \ make gawk protobuf-c-compiler uuid-dev liblz4-tool liblz4-dev \ libprotobuf-c1 libreadline6 libsqlite3-0 libuuid1 libz1 tzdata \ ncurses-dev tcl bc** CentOS 7 **
sudo yum install -y gcc gcc-c++ protobuf-c libunwind libunwind-devel \ protobuf-c-devel byacc flex openssl openssl-devel openssl-libs \ readline-devel sqlite sqlite-devel libuuid libuuid-devel zlib-devel \ zlib lz4-devel gawk tcl epel-release lz4 rpm-build -
Build Comdb2:
make && sudo make install -
Add /opt/bb/bin to your PATH
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/bb/bin -
Start pmux:
pmux -n -
We need to tell comdb2 our FQDN - all nodes must agree on each other's names:
vi /opt/bb/etc/cdb2/config/comdb2.d/hostname.lrl configure add current machine's name, e.g. hostname mptest-1.comdb2.example.com
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On one machine, create a database.
comdb2 --create --dir /home/mponomar/db mikedb -
Configure the nodes in the cluster:
vi /home/mponomar/db/mikedb.lrl add cluster nodes mptest-1.comdb2.example.com mptest-2.comdb2.example.com -
On other nodes, copy the database over:
copycomdb2 mptest-1.comdb2.example.com:/home/mponomar/db/mikedb.lrl -
On all nodes, start the database.
comdb2 --lrl /home/mponomar/db/mikedb.lrl mikedbAll nodes will say 'I AM READY.' when ready.
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On any node, start using the database. You don't have any tables yet. You can add them with cdb2sql Example -
cdb2sql mikedb local 'CREATE TABLE t1 { schema { int a } }'
Database can be queried/updated with cdb2sql:
cdb2sql mikedb local 'insert into t1(a) values(1)' (rows inserted=1) cdb2sql mikedb local 'select * from t1' (a=1)
| Directory | Description |
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| bb/ | Useful generic modules |
| bbinc/ | Header & Generic include files |
| bdb/ | Table layer |
| berkdb/ | Btrees layer |
| cdb2api/ | Client code |
| cdb2jdbc/ | JDBC driver |
| comdb2rle/ | Run length encoding |
| comdb2tests/ | Contains all the tests that will be run for this version |
| config/ | lrl config files |
| contrib/ | Misc useful programs that aren't part of core Comdb2 |
| crc32c/ | Checksum component |
| csc2/ | csc2 processing |
| csc2files/ | csc2 config files |
| cson/ | JSON library |
| datetime/ | Datetime component |
| db/ | Types layer and overall glue |
| deb/ | Sample debian package config |
| dfp/ | Decimal number component |
| dlmalloc/ | Local malloc version |
| docs/ | Documentation |
| lua/ | All things pertaining to lua VM used for stored procedures |
| net/ | Network component |
| protobuf/ | API to communicate with the server |
| schemachange | Code for table create/alter/truncate/etc |
| sqlite/ | Sqlite VM SQL engine |
| tests/ | Comdb2 test suite |
| tools/ | Tools that are part of Comdb2 core |