High Availability
Due to the way updates to table regions (also called tablets) are applied and replicated, data in table regions are instantly available. Tables and table regions are part of abstract entities called containers that provide the automatic replication of table regions (with a default of three) across the nodes of a cluster.
Containers are replicated to a configurable number of copies. These copies are distributed to different nodes in the same cluster as the original or primary container. The cluster CLDB determines the order in which the replicas are updated. Together, the replicas form a replication chain that is updated transactionally. When an update is applied to a region (also called tablets) in the primary container (which is at the head of a replication chain), the update is applied serially to the replicas of that container in the chain. The update is complete only when all replicas in the chain are updated.
As a result of this architecture, when a hardware failure brings down a node, the regions served by that node are available instantly from one of the other nodes that have the replicated data.
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric software can detect the exact point at which replicas diverge, even at a 2-GB-per-second update rate. The software randomly picks any one of the three copies as the new master, rolls back the other surviving replicas to the divergence point, and then rolls forward to converge with the chosen master. HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric software can do this on the fly with very little impact on normal operations.