Hibari System Administrator’s Guide (Hibari v0.1.11)

DRAFT - IN PROGRESS

Date: 2015/03/22

Revision: 0.5.4

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • The Problem
  • Key-Value Store
  • Hibari’s Origins
  • Summary of Hibari’s Main Features
  • The “ACID vs. BASE” Spectrum and Hibari
  • The CAP Theorem and Hibari
• Hibari’s Main Features in Broad Detail
• Building A Hibari Database
• Hibari Architecture
  • Bricks, Physical and Logical
• The Admin Server Application
• Hibari System Information: Configuration Files, Etc.
• The Life of a (Logical) Brick
• Dynamic Cluster Reconfiguration
• The Partition Detector Application
• Backup and Disaster Recovery
• Hibari Application Logging
• Hardware and Software Considerations
• Administering Hibari Through the API
  • brick_admin:add_table(stack, ChainList, Opts).
  • .Create a new stack
  • .Push an item onto a stack
  • .Pop an item off a stack
  • Item.
  • .Data types for brick_admin:change_chain_length()
  • .Data types for brick_admin:start_migration()
  • (hibari1@bb3)63> OldFloatMap = brick_hash:chash_extract_new_float_map(OldGH).