table replica add

Registers a table as a replica of another HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database binary or JSON table.

NOTE
You do not need to use this command if you use the table replica autosetup command.

Permissions Required

To run this command, your user ID must have the following permissions:

  • readAce and writeAce on both the source volume and the target volume
  • lookupdir on directories in the paths of both tables
  • readperm and replperm permissions on the source table
NOTE
The mapr user is not treated as a superuser. HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database does not allow the mapr user to run this command unless that user is given the relevant permission or permissions with access-control expressions.

Syntax

CLI
/opt/mapr/bin/maprcli table replica add
  -path <table path>
  -replica <replica table path>
  [ -columns <comma separated list of <family>[:<column>]>  ]  
  [ -paused <is replication paused> default: false ]
  [ -throttle <throttle replication ops> default: false> ]
  [ -networkencryption <enable on-wire encryption> default: false> ]
  [ -synchronous <is synchronous replication> default: false ]
  [ -networkcompression <on-wire compression type: off|on|lzf|lz4|zlib> default: on ]
REST
curl -k -X POST 
  'http[s]://<host>:<port>/rest/table/replica/add?path=<path>&replica=<name>&<parameters> 
  -u <username>:<password>
NOTE
The mapr user is not treated as a superuser. HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database does not allow the mapr user to run this command unless that user is given the relevant permission or permissions with access-control expressions.

Parameters

Parameter Description
path

The path to the source table that you want to replicate.

  • For a path on the local cluster, start the path at the volume mount point. For example, for a table named testsrc under a volume with a mount point at /volume1, specify the following path: /volume1/testsrc
  • For a path on another cluster, you must also specify the cluster name in the path. For example, for a table named customersrc under volume1 in the sanfrancisco cluster, specify the following path:/mapr/sanfrancisco/volume1/customersrc
replica

The path to the replica.

  • For a table on the local cluster, start the path at the volume mount point. For example, for a table named testdst under a volume with a mount point at /volume1, specify the following path: /volume1/testdst
  • For a table on a remote cluster, you must also specify the cluster name in the path. For example, for a table named customerdst under volume1 in the sanfrancisco cluster, specify the following path: /mapr/sanfrancisco/volume1/customerdst
NOTE
For replication to a table, the command will fail if the table in the replica path does not exist.
columns

By default, all columns in the source table are replicated.

If you do not want to replicate all columns in the table, you can specify specific columns to replicate:
For binary tables
Provide a comma-separated list of column families or columns from a certain column family (column family:qualifier). For example, use the following syntax to replicate the column family purchases and the column stars in the reviews column family: -columns purchases,reviews:stars
NOTE
While the column families that you specify must already exist in the source table, the columns that you specify do not have to exist in the destination table for replication to succeed. If the column is added at a later date, replication for that column will start at that time.
For JSON tables
Provide a comma-delimited list of fields to replicate. Include the full field path for each field.

Example

Suppose your table contains documents that contain this general structure:

{
     "_id" : "ID",
     "a" :
          {
               "b" : 
                    {
                         "c" : "value",
                    },
               "e" : "value"
          }
}

To replicate fields a, c, and e, you would specify these field paths:

a,a.b.c,a.e
Do not use quotation marks and do not include spaces after commas.

Suppose now that a.b and a.e were custom column families. You want to replicate only the default column family and column family a.e. To do so, you would specify field paths like this:

",a.e"

The empty string before the comma indicates the default column family.
paused

A Boolean value that specifies whether to pause the replication so that it does not start immediately. The replication can be resumed using the replica resume command at a later time. The values are true or false. Default: Not paused (false)
throttle A Boolean value that specifies whether to throttle replication operations. Throttle the replication stream to minimize the impact of the replication process on incoming operations during periods of heavy load. The values are true or false. Default: No throttle (false)
networkencryption A Boolean value that specifies whether or not to enable on-wire encryption. The values are true or false. If you set this to true, the local cluster and any other cluster that is part of the replication process must be enabled for security. Default: No encryption (false)
synchronous

A Boolean value that specifies whether replication is synchronous or asynchronous. The values are true or false. Default: Asynchronous (false)
networkcompression

The type of on-wire compression. Default: on

The types are:

  • off
  • on (default)
  • lzf
  • lz4
  • zlib

The default compression is lz4, which can be set by specifying on or lz4 as value.

Example

Registers a table on the local cluster as a replica of another table on the local cluster:

CLI
/opt/mapr/bin/maprcli table replica add -path /volume1/custA -replica /volume2/custA
REST
curl -k -X POST \
  'https://r1n1.sj.us:8443/rest/table/replica/add?path=%2Fvolume1%2FcustA&replica=%2Fvolume2%2FcustA' \
  -u mapr:mapr