ADR-082: Data Companion Push API #9437
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* abci: clarify what abci stands for * link to abci type protos.
* abci: clarify connection use in-process * Update abci.md * Update spec/abci/abci.md Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io> * Update spec/abci/abci.md Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io> * invert abci explanations * lint++ * lint++ * lint++ * lint++ Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io>
* abci: points of clarification ahead of v0.1.0 * lint++ * typo * lint++ * double word score * grammar * Update spec/abci/abci.md Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io> * Update spec/abci/abci.md Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io> * Update spec/abci/abci.md Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io> * Update spec/abci/abci.md Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io> * Update spec/abci/abci.md Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io> * Update spec/abci/abci.md Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io> * Update spec/abci/abci.md Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io> * Update spec/abci/abci.md Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io> * Update spec/abci/abci.md Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io> * Update spec/abci/abci.md Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io> * Update spec/abci/abci.md Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io> * Update spec/abci/abci.md Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io> * Update spec/abci/abci.md Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io> * pr feedback * wip * update non-zero status code docs * fix event description * update CheckTx description Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io>
* Update supervisor_001_draft.md If the only node in the *FullNodes* set is the primary, that was just deemed faulty, we can't find honest primary. * Update supervisor_001_draft.md
* wip * wip * wip * remove comments in favor of gh comments * wip * udpates to language, should must etc * Apply suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io> * remove tendermint cache description Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io>
* add missed proto files * add abci changes * rename blockchain to blocksync * Update proto/tendermint/abci/types.proto Co-authored-by: Callum Waters <cmwaters19@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Callum Waters <cmwaters19@gmail.com>
…ions Tendermint specification version 0.7.1
* [Rebased to v0.34.x] abci: PrepareProposal (#6544) * fixed cherry-pick * proto changes * make proto-gen * UT fixes * generate Client directive * mockery * App fixes * Disable 'modified tx' hack * mockery * Make format * Fix lint Co-authored-by: Marko <marbar3778@yahoo.com>
This test would fail if run with "go test -count=2" because it uses a fixed address and was not closing the server, so the subsequent run could not bind to the address. While closing the server is correct, it would probably be better if the API was able to report the bound address so that we could pass "localhost:0" for an anonymous port. But I am currently focusing on test cleanup, not ready to change any existing APIs.
* libs/pubsub/query: specify peg version in go.mod The code to generate the pubsub queries was dependent on an unspecified version of the peg tool. This brings peg into go.mod so it is on a fixed version. This should also enable dependabot to notify us of future updates to peg. The version of query.peg.go generated from the current version of peg correctly contains the special "Code generated by..." line to indicate to other tools that the file is automatically generated and should therefore be excluded from linters, etc. I removed the make target as there were no git grep results referencing "gen_query_parser"; directly running "go generate" is a reasonable expectation in Go projects. Now that "go run" is module aware, I would typically use "go run" inside the go:generate directive, but in this case we go build to a gitignore-d directory in order to work around the nondeterministic output detailed in pointlander/peg#129. * libs/pubsub/query: check error from (*QueryParser).Init() The newly generated peg code returns an error from Init(); the previous version was niladic. Co-authored-by: Sam Kleinman <garen@tychoish.com>
* Update CODEOWNERS to use teams Update the `CODEOWNERS` file to use the @tendermint/tendermint-engineering and @tendermint/tendermint-research teams as opposed to adding people one by one. This makes repository administration somewhat easier to manage, especially when onboarding/offboarding people. Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Add Ethan as superuser Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com>
* Update Makefile with changes from #7372 Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Sync main GitHub config with master and update Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Remove unnecesary dot folders Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Sync dotfiles Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Remove unused Jepsen tests for now Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * tools: remove k8s (#6625) Remove mintnet as discussed on team call. closes #1941 * Restore nightly fuzz testing of P2P addrbook and pex Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Fix YAML lints Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Fix YAML formatting nits Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * More YAML nits Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * github: fix linter configuration errors and occluded errors (#6400) * Minor fixes to OpenAPI spec to sync with structs on main Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Remove .github/auto-comment.yml - does not appear to be used Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Add issue config with link to discussions Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Adjust issue/PR templates to suit current process Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Remove unused RC branch config from release workflow Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Fix wildcard matching in build jobs config Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Document markdownlint config Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Restore manual E2E test group config Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Document linter workflow with local execution instructions Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Document and fix minor nit in Super-Linter markdownlint config Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Update .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug-report.md Co-authored-by: William Banfield <4561443+williambanfield@users.noreply.github.com> * Apply suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: William Banfield <4561443+williambanfield@users.noreply.github.com> * Update pull request template to add language around discussions/issues Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * .golangci.yml: Deleted commented-out lines Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * ci: Drop "-2" from e2e-nightly-fail workflow Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> * Address triviality concern in PR template Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com> Co-authored-by: Marko <marbar3778@yahoo.com> Co-authored-by: Sam Kleinman <garen@tychoish.com> Co-authored-by: William Banfield <4561443+williambanfield@users.noreply.github.com>
Import the readme, contributing guidelines, code of conduct, security guide and releases guide. Format all of these documents, replacing references to `master` by references to `main`, and use Markdown link references instead of embedded links wherever it improves legibility. Signed-off-by: Thane Thomson <connect@thanethomson.com>
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huge fan of this and something, I would like to help accelerate. For numia, this sort of process is something we have been talking about and are looking to see how fast we can implement. Biggest questions for me are: is there a way to define a streamer instead of making it a request response model. Then periodically the consumer can send what heights it has and the node would batch delete them. This can be optional, but reduces complexity of consumers. Secondly, as someone who already maintains simple tooling and a fork of tendermint with an event pubsub streamer this is a step in the right direction, but I think there is a large refactor of how things are stored needed in order to see the best results. While I agree tendermint doesn't need to store this data and reducing node operators cost through this api is good, there is a fundamental issue with tendermint storage layout that could help as well. I think the team is aware of this, but wanted to bring it up so there is thought on that as well. |
Glad to hear that 🙂
Could you please elaborate on the problem that you see with the request/response model? The way the proposed architecture works is such that the moment that the node gets a success response from the companion for a specific height's data, it can safely delete the non-critical parts of that data (or add it to a batch of data to delete on some periodic schedule).
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Just in regards to the initially part: There isn't any other (global) data that I know of that Tendermint could possibly publish - this is basically everything
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I strongly support offloading the indexing because, imho, indexing should only concern the application.
In this sense, I fear that the proposed approach is still too tied to Tendermint. One possibility to resolve this would be to place the companion in the application level, i.e., above ABCI, and provide an ABCI shim that intercepts and indexes the events.
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The same shim/interceptor could be used later to provide a default app-side mempool, for example.
Block execution will be slowed down by the indexing, but the coupling is inevitable if we want to tie the success of the index operation with the progress of a tendermint node.
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Very interesting idea!
Right now, the design of this ADR leverages the fact that Tendermint currently persists event data to disk, so it can reliably push that data to the companion (i.e. on-disk buffering). Is your idea that the ABCI shim would instead offer its own on-disk buffering?
Also, the proposed architecture in ADR-082 allows for sending of full block data as well. Is your idea to have the shim and the Tendermint node each make a connection through to the companion to be able to pass these different types of data through?
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Yes, whatever is needed to implement the communication with the data companion, would be done at the Shim/Companion level. And any data flowing through ABCI, be it blocks going up or events going down, could be intercepted and sent to the companion.
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| consumers and just dump the requisite data into that database. Consumers | ||
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| transform/process the data as needed. |
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Events are essentially a stream of never repeating data and in which pruning is efficient and compaction is pretty much useless. We should investigate using very simple stream DBs; the ideal one wouldn't be very different from a WAL.
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So basically a time-series database, like InfluxDB?
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| their storage-related costs. This would also increase pruning complexity. |
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the ABCI interceptor approach would be useful here, since app developers could just drop the interceptor and handle the indexing at the app, according to their needs.
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Why not a single list of data to be published, instead of data_companion.block_committed and additionally_publish?
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You're right, that's probably easier to deal with from a UX perspective. Instead of enabling different RPC calls (an implementation detail), rather let the user specify which kinds of data they want and let the companion client figure out which corresponding RPC calls and data structures to send.
I'll change the interface here.
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This ADR aims to present an alternative (or a follow-up, since they're not incompatible) to ADR-075. I'm also still trying to understand the degree to which the proposed solution here is feasible (and if not, what would need to change?), but there's some time pressure to make some key architectural decisions given our upcoming Q4 planning and various users' desires to have ADR-075 implemented so I haven't had as much opportunity to do due diligence as I'd hoped. Feedback here would be greatly appreciated.
If it'll work, I imagine this is by no means the only possible solution to the problem outlined in the ADR and I'm totally open to other options here. If we end up going an alternative route, I'd recommend we still capture this in the
docs/architecturefolder and mark it as rejected, so at least the reasoning's captured for posterity, and in case some of it becomes relevant in future.cc @adizere @romac @ancazamfir @JayT106
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