Match Engine Raft

This is a folk from example-raft-kv project from openraft. It's a demostration of openraft storage for snapshot/log on disk.

For chinese guide please click here. It's more uptodated.

Example distributed key-value store built upon openraft.

It is an example of how to build a real-world key-value store with openraft. Includes:

An in-memory RaftStorage implementation store.
A server is based on actix-web.
Includes:
- raft-internal network APIs for replication and voting.
- Admin APIs to add nodes, change-membership etc.
- Application APIs to write a value by key or read a value by key.
Client and RaftNetwork(rpc) are built upon reqwest.

ExampleClient is a minimal raft client in rust to talk to a raft cluster.
- It includes application API write() and read(), and administrative API init(), add_learner(), change_membership(), metrics().
- This client tracks the last known leader id, a write operation(such as write() or change_membership()) will be redirected to the leader on client side.

Run it

There is a example in bash script and an example in rust:

test-cluster.sh shows a simulation of 3 nodes running and sharing data, It only uses curl and shows the communication between a client and the cluster in plain HTTP messages. You can run the cluster demo with:
```
./test-cluster.sh
```
test_cluster.rs does almost the same as test-cluster.sh but in rust with the ExampleClient.

Run it with cargo test.

if you want to compile the application, run:

cargo build

(If you append --release to make it compile in production, but we don't recommend to use this project in production yet.)

What the test script does

To run it, get the binary raft-key-value inside target/debug and run:

./raft-key-value --id 1 --http-addr 127.0.0.1:21001

It will start a node.

To start the following nodes:

./raft-key-value --id 2 --http-addr 127.0.0.1:21002

You can continue replicating the nodes by changing the id and http-addr.

After that, call the first node created:

POST - 127.0.0.1:21001/init

It will define the first node created as the leader.

Then you need to inform to the leader that these nodes are learners:

POST - 127.0.0.1:21001/add-learner '[2, "127.0.0.1:21002"]'
POST - 127.0.0.1:21001/add-learner '[3, "127.0.0.1:21003"]'

Now you need to tell the leader to add all learners as members of the cluster:

POST - 127.0.0.1:21001/change-membership  "[1, 2, 3]"

Write some data in any of the nodes:

POST - 127.0.0.1:21001/write  "{"Set":{"key":"foo","value":"bar"}}"

Read the data from any node:

POST - 127.0.0.1:21002/read  "foo"

You should be able to read that on the another instance even if you did not sync any data!

How it's structured.

The application is separated in 4 modules:

bin: You can find the main() function in main the file where the setup for the server happens.
network: You can find the api that implements the endpoints used by the public API and rpc where all the raft communication from the node happens. management is where all the administration endpoints are present, those are used to add orremove nodes, promote and more. raft is where all the communication are received from other nodes.
store: You can find the file store where all the key-value implementation is done. Here is where your data application will be managed.

Where is my data?

The data is store inside state machines, each state machine represents a point of data and raft enforces that all nodes have the same data in synchronization. You can have a look of the struct ExampleStateMachine

Cluster management

The raft itself does not store node addresses. But in a real-world application, the implementation of RaftNetwork needs to know the addresses.

Thus, in this example application:

The storage layer has to store nodes' information.
The network layer keeps a reference to the store so that it is able to get the address of a target node to send RPC to.

To add a node to a cluster, it includes 3 steps:

Write a node through raft protocol to the storage.
Add the node as a Learner to let it start receiving replication data from the leader.
Invoke change-membership to change the learner node to a member.