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version 1.0 on Nov 20th, 2012

NEO is a distributed, redundant and scalable implementation of ZODB API. NEO stands for Nexedi Enterprise Object.

Overview

A NEO cluster is composed of the following types of nodes:

  • "master" nodes (mandatory, 1 or more)

    Takes care of transactionality. Only one master node is really active (the active master node is called "primary master") at any given time, extra masters are spares (they are called "secondary masters").

  • "storage" nodes (mandatory, 1 or more)

    Stores data, preserving history. All available storage nodes are in use simultaneously. This offers redundancy and data distribution. Available backends: MySQL, SQLite

  • "admin" nodes (mandatory for startup, optional after)

    Accepts commands from neoctl tool and transmits them to the primary master, and monitors cluster state.

  • "client" nodes

    Well... Something needing to store/load data in a NEO cluster.

ZODB API is fully implemented except:

  • pack: only old revisions of objects are removed for the moment

    (full implementation is considered)

  • blobs: not implemented (not considered yet)

There is a simple way to convert FileStorage to NEO and back again.

See also http://www.neoppod.org/links for more detailed information about features related to scalability.

Disclaimer

In addition of the disclaimer contained in the licence this code is released under, please consider the following.

NEO does not implement any authentication mechanism between its nodes, and does not encrypt data exchanged between nodes either. If you want to protect your cluster from malicious nodes, or your data from being snooped, please consider encrypted tunelling (such as openvpn).

Requirements

Installation

  1. NEO can be installed like any other egg (see setup.py). Or you can simply make neo directory available for Python to import (for example, by adding its container directory to the PYTHONPATH environment variable).

  2. Write a neo.conf file like the example provided. If you use MySQL, you'll also need create 1 database per storage node.

  3. Start all required nodes:

    $ neomaster -f neo.conf
    $ neostorage -f neo.conf -s storage1
    $ neostorage -f neo.conf -s storage2
    $ neoadmin -f neo.conf
    
  4. Tell the cluster to initialize storage nodes:

    $ neoctl -a <admin> start
    
  5. Clients can connect when the cluster is in RUNNING state:

    $ neoctl -a <admin> print cluster
    RUNNING
    
  6. See neomigrate command to import an existing FileStorage database, or neoctl command for more administrative tasks.

Alternatively, you can use neosimple command to quickly setup a cluster for testing.

How to use

First make sure Python can import 'neo.client' package.

In zope
  1. Edit your zope.conf, add a neo import and edit the zodb_db section by replacing its filestorage subsection by a NEOStorage one. It should look like:

    %import neo.client
    <zodb_db main>
        # Main FileStorage database
        <NEOStorage>
            master_nodes 127.0.0.1:10000
            name <cluster name>
        </NEOStorage>
        mount-point /
    </zodb_db>
    
  2. Start zope

In a Python script

Just create the storage object and play with it:

from neo.client.Storage import Storage
s = Storage(master_nodes="127.0.0.1:10010", name="main")
...

"name" and "master_nodes" parameters have the same meaning as in configuration file.

Shutting down

Before shutting down NEO, all clients like Zope instances should be stopped, so that cluster become idle. This is required for multi-DB setups, to prevent critical failures in second phase of TPC.

A cluster (i.e. masters+storages+admin) can be stopped gracefully by putting it in STOPPING state using neoctl:

neoctl -a <admin> set cluster STOPPING

This can also be done manually, which helps if your cluster is in bad state:

  • Stop all master nodes first with a SIGINT or SIGTERM, so that storage nodes

    don't become in OUT_OF_DATE state.

  • Next stop remaining nodes with a SIGINT or SIGTERM.

Master-slave asynchronous replication

This is the recommanded way to backup a NEO cluster. Once a cluster with appropriate upstream_cluster & upstream_masters configuration is started, you can switch it into backup mode using:

neoctl -a <admin> set cluster STARTING_BACKUP

It remembers it is in such mode when it is stopped, and it can be put back into normal mode (RUNNING) by setting it into STOPPING_BACKUP state.

Packs are currently not replicated, which means packing should always be done up to a TID that is already fully replicated, so that the backup cluster has a full history (and not random holes).

Deployment

NEO has no built-in deployment features such as process daemonization. We use supervisor with configuration like below:

[group:neo]
programs=master_01,storage_01,admin

[program:storage_01]
priority=10
command=neostorage -s storage_01 -f /neo/neo.conf

[program:master_01]
priority=20
command=neomaster -s master_01 -f /neo/neo.conf

[program:admin]
priority=20
command=neoadmin -s admin -f /neo/neo.conf

Developers

Developers interested in NEO may refer to NEO Web site and subscribe to following mailing lists:

Commercial Support

Nexedi provides commercial support for NEO: http://www.nexedi.com/

Change History

1.0 (2012-03-28)

This version mainly comes with stabilized SQL tables format and efficient backup feature, relying on replication, which has been fully reimplemented:

  • It is now incremental, instead of being done on whole partitions. Schema of MySQL tables have been changed in order to optimize storage layout, for good partial replication performance.
  • It runs at lowest priority not to degrade performance for client nodes.
  • A cluster in the new BACKINGUP state is a client to a normal cluster and all its storage nodes are notified of invalidations and replicate from upstream nodes.

Other changes are:

  • Compatibility with Python < 2.6 and ZODB < 3.9 has been dropped.
  • Cluster is now automatically started when all storage nodes of UP_TO_DATE cells are available, similarly to mdadm assemble --no-degraded behaviour.
  • NEO learned to check replicas, to detect data corruption or bugs during replication. When done on a backup cluster, upstream data is used as reference. This is still limited to data indexes (tid & oid/serial).
  • NEO logs now are SQLite DB that always contain all debugging information including exchanged packets. Records are first kept in RAM, at most 16 MB by default, and there are flushed to disk only upon RTMIN signal or any important record. A 'neolog' script has been written to help reading such DB.
  • Master addresses must be separated by spaces. '/' can't be used anymore.
  • Adding and removing master nodes is now easier: unknown incoming master nodes are now accepted instead of rejected, and nodes can be given a path to a file that maintains a list of known master nodes.
  • Node UUIDs have been shortened from 16 to 4 bytes, for better performance and easier debugging.

Also contains code clean-ups and bugfixes.

0.10.1 (2012-03-13)
  • Client didn't limit its memory usage when committing big transactions.
  • Master failed to disconnect clients when cluster leaves RUNNING state.
0.10 (2011-10-17)
  • Storage was unable or slow to process large-sized transactions. This required to change protocol and MySQL tables format.
  • NEO learned to store empty values (although it's useless when managed by a ZODB Connection).
0.9.2 (2011-10-17)
  • storage: a specific socket can be given to MySQL backend
  • storage: a ConflictError could happen when client is much faster than master
  • 'verbose' command line option of 'neomigrate' did not work
  • client: ZODB monkey-patch randomly raised a NameError
0.9.1 (2011-09-24)
  • client: method to retrieve history of persistent objects was incompatible with recent ZODB and needlessly asked all storages systematically.
  • neoctl: 'print node' command (to get list of all nodes) raised an AssertionError.
  • 'neomigrate' raised a TypeError when converting NEO DB back to FileStorage.
0.9 (2011-09-12)

Initial release.

NEO is considered stable enough to replace existing ZEO setups, except that:

  • there's no backup mechanism (aka efficient snapshoting): there's only replication and underlying MySQL tools
  • MySQL tables format may change in the future

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