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cr8
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A collection of command line tools for `Crate
<https://github.com/crate/crate>`_ developers (and maybe users as well).
TOC
====
- `Why cr8? 🤔`_
- `Install 💾`_
- `Usage`_
- `Sub-commands`_
- `timeit 🕐`_
- `insert-fake-data`_
- `insert-json`_
- `insert-from-sql`_
- `run-spec`_
- `run-crate`_
- `Script reproduction`_
- `Find regressions`_
- `Profiling`_
- `Creating a CrateDB cluster`_
- `run-track`_
- `reindex`_
- `Protocols`_
- `Development ☢`_
Why cr8? 🤔
===========
1. To quickly produce sample data. Often if someone reports an issue sample
data is required to be able to reproduce it.
`insert-fake-data`_ and `insert-json`_ address this problem.
2. To benchmark queries & compare runtime across Crate versions. `timeit 🕐`_,
`run-spec`_ and `run-track`_ can be used to get runtime statistics of
queries.
These tools focus on response latencies. Being able to benchmark throughput
is NOT a goal of cr8. Similarly, being able to simulate real-world use
cases is also NOT a goal of cr8.
.. note::
Although most commands output text by default. Most take a ``--output-fmt
json`` argument to output JSON.
This is useful if used together with `jq`_ to post-process the output
Install 💾
==========
Python >= 3.7 is required to use the command line tools.
Install them using `pip <https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/>`_::
python3.7 -m pip install --user cr8
This will install ``cr8`` into ``~/.local/bin``. Either use
``~/.local/bin/cr8`` to launch it or add ``~/.local/bin`` to your ``$PATH``
environment variable.
An alternative is to download a single ``zipapp`` file from the `releases page
<https://github.com/mfussenegger/cr8/releases>`_.
Usage
=====
The main binary is called ``cr8`` which contains a couple of sub-commands.
Use ``cr8 -h`` or ``cr8 <subcommand> -h`` to get a more detailed usage
description.
The included sub-commands are described in more detail below:
**Tip**:
Any `<subcommand>` with ``--hosts`` argument supports password authentication
like this::
cr8 <subcommand> --hosts http://username:password@localhost:4200 <remaining args>
Sub-commands
============
timeit 🕐
---------
A tool that can be used to measure the runtime of a given SQL statement on a
cluster::
>>> echo "select name from sys.cluster" | cr8 timeit --hosts localhost:4200
Runtime (in ms):
mean: ... ± ...
min/max: ... → ...
Percentile:
50: ... ± ... (stdev)
95: ...
99.9: ...
insert-fake-data
----------------
A tool that can be used to fill a table with random data. The script will
generate the records using `faker <https://github.com/joke2k/faker>`_.
For example given the table as follows::
create table x.demo (
id int,
name text,
country text
);
The following command can be used to insert 1000 records::
>>> cr8 insert-fake-data --hosts localhost:4200 --table x.demo --num-records 200
Found schema:
{
"country": "text",
"id": "integer",
"name": "text"
}
Using insert statement:
insert into "x"."demo" ("id", "name", "country") values ($1, $2, $3)
Will make 1 requests with a bulk size of 200
Generating fake data and executing inserts
<BLANKLINE>
It will automatically read the schema from the table and map the columns to
faker `providers
<https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/providers.html>`_ and insert the
give number of records.
(Currently only top-level columns are supported)
An alternative way to generate random records is `mkjson
<https://github.com/mfussenegger/mkjson>`_ which can be used together with
``insert-json``.
insert-json
-----------
``insert-json`` can be used to insert records from a JSON file::
>>> cat tests/demo.json | cr8 insert-json --table x.demo --hosts localhost:4200
Executing inserts: bulk_size=1000 concurrency=25
Runtime (in ms):
mean: ... ± 0.000
Or simply print the insert statement generated from a JSON string::
>>> echo '{"name": "Arthur"}' | cr8 insert-json --table mytable
('insert into mytable ("name") values ($1)', ['Arthur'])
...
insert-from-sql
---------------
Copies data from one CrateDB cluster or PostgreSQL server to another.
::
>>> cr8 insert-from-sql \
... --src-uri "postgresql://crate@localhost:5432/doc" \
... --query "SELECT name FROM x.demo" \
... --hosts localhost:4200 \
... --table y.demo \
INSERT INTO y.demo (name) VALUES ($1)
Runtime (in ms):
...
The ``concurrency`` option of the command only affects the number of concurrent
write operations that will be made. There will always be a single read
operation, so copy operations may be bound by the read performance.
run-spec
--------
A tool to run benchmarks against a cluster and store the result in another
cluster. The benchmark itself is defined in a spec file which defines `setup`,
`benchmark` and `teardown` instructions.
The instructions itself are just SQL statements (or files containing SQL
statements).
In the `specs` folder is an example spec file.
Usage::
>>> cr8 run-spec specs/sample.toml localhost:4200 -r localhost:4200
# Running setUp
# Running benchmark
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## Running Query:
Name: count countries
Statement: select count(*) from countries
Concurrency: 2
Duration: 1
Runtime (in ms):
mean: ... ± ...
min/max: ... → ...
Percentile:
50: ... ± ... (stdev)
95: ...
99.9: ...
...
## Skipping (Version ...
Statement: ...
# Running tearDown
<BLANKLINE>
`-r` is optional and can be used to save the benchmark result into a cluster.
A table named `benchmarks` will be created if it doesn't exist.
Writing spec files in python is also supported::
>>> cr8 run-spec specs/sample.py localhost:4200
# Running setUp
# Running benchmark
...
run-crate
---------
Launch a Crate instance::
> cr8 run-crate 0.55.0
This requires Java 8.
``run-crate`` supports chaining of additional commands using ``--``. Under the
context of ``run-crate`` any host urls can be formatted using the
``{node.http_url}`` format string::
>>> cr8 run-crate latest-stable -- timeit -s "select 1" --hosts '{node.http_url}'
# run-crate
===========
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...
Starting Crate process
CrateDB launching:
PID: ...
Logs: ...
Data: ...
<BLANKLINE>
...
Cluster ready to process requests
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# timeit
========
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In the above example ``timeit`` is a ``cr8`` specific sub-command. But it's
also possible to use arbitrary commands by prefixing them with ``@``::
cr8 run-crate latest-nightly -- @http '{node.http_url}'
Script reproduction
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
One common use of this feature is to quickly reproduce bug reports::
cr8 run-crate latest-nightly -- @crash --hosts {node.http_url} <<EOF
create table mytable (x int);
insert into mytable (x) values (1);
refresh mytable;
...
EOF
Find regressions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Another use case is to use ``run-crate`` in combination with ``run-spec`` and
``git bisect``::
git bisect run cr8 run-crate path/to/crate/src \
-- run-spec path/to/spec.toml '{node.http_url}' --fail-if '{runtime_stats.mean} > 15'
This could also be combined with `timeout
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/timeout-invocation.html#timeout-invocation>`_.
Profiling
~~~~~~~~~
This can also be used in combination with the Java flight recorder to do
profiling::
cr8 run-crate latest-nightly \
-e CRATE_HEAP_SIZE=4g \
-e CRATE_JAVA_OPTS="-Dcrate.signal_handler.disabled=true -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+DebugNonSafepoints -XX:+UnlockCommercialFeatures -XX:+FlightRecorder" \
-s discovery.type=single-node \
-- run-spec path/to/specs/example.toml {node.http_url} --action setup \
-- @jcmd {node.process.pid} JFR.start duration=60s filename=myrecording.jfr \
-- run-spec path/to/specs/example.toml {node.http_url} --action queries \
-- @jcmd {node.process.pid} JFR.stop
Creating a CrateDB cluster
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
``cr8`` doesn't contain a dedicated command to spawn a CrateDB cluster. But you
can run ``cr8 run-crate <version> -s cluster.name=<name>`` to launch multiple
nodes. If the cluster name matches, it will form a cluster.
run-track
---------
A tool to run ``.toml`` track files.
A track is a matrix definition of node version, configurations and spec files.
For each version and configuration a Crate node will be launched and all specs
will be executed::
>>> cr8 run-track tracks/sample.toml
# Version: latest-testing
## Starting Crate latest-testing, configuration: default.toml
### Running spec file: sample.toml
# Running setUp
# Running benchmark
...
reindex
-------
A command to re-index all tables on a cluster which have been created in the
previous major versions. So if you're running a 3.x CrateDB cluster, all tables
from 2.x would be re-created::
>>> cr8 reindex --help
usage: cr8 reindex [-h] --hosts HOSTS
...
Protocols
=========
``cr8`` supports using ``HTTP`` or the ``postgres`` protocol.
Note that using the postgres protocol will cause ``cr8`` to measure the
round-trip time instead of the service time. So measurements will be different.
To use the ``postgres`` protocol, the ``asyncpg`` scheme must be used inside hosts URIs:
::
>>> echo "select 1" | cr8 timeit --hosts asyncpg://localhost:5432
Runtime (in ms):
...
Development ☢
==============
To get a sandboxed environment with all dependencies installed use ``venv``::
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
Install the ``cr8`` package using pip::
python -m pip install -e .
Run ``cr8``::
cr8 -h
Tests are run with ``python -m unittest``
.. _jq: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/