mysql_ch_replicator

mysql_ch_replicator is a powerful and efficient tool designed for real-time replication of MySQL databases to ClickHouse.

With a focus on high performance, it utilizes batching heavily and uses C++ extension for faster execution. This tool ensures seamless data integration with support for migrations, schema changes, and correct data management.

Features

• Real-Time Replication: Keeps your ClickHouse database in sync with MySQL in real-time.
• High Performance: Utilizes batching and ports slow parts to C++ (e.g., MySQL internal JSON parsing) for optimal performance.
• Supports Migrations/Schema Changes: Handles adding, altering, and removing tables without breaking the replication process.
• Recovery without Downtime: Allows for preserving old data while performing initial replication, ensuring continuous operation.
• Correct Data Removal: Unlike MaterializedMySQL, mysql_ch_replicator ensures physical removal of data.
• Comprehensive Data Type Support: Accurately replicates most data types, including JSON, booleans, and more. Easily extensible for additional data types.
• Multi-Database Handling: Replicates the binary log once for all databases, optimizing the process compared to MaterializedMySQL, which replicates the log separately for each database.

Installation

To install mysql_ch_replicator, use the following command:

pip install mysql_ch_replicator

You may need to also compile C++ components if they're not pre-built for your platform.

Usage

Basic Usage

For realtime data sync from MySQL to ClickHouse:

1. Prepare config file. Use example_config.yaml as an example.
2. Configure MySQL and ClickHouse servers:

• MySQL server configuration file my.cnf should include following settings (required to write binary log in raw format, and enable password authentication):

[mysqld]
# ... other settings ...
gtid_mode = on
enforce_gtid_consistency = 1
default_authentication_plugin = mysql_native_password
binlog_format = ROW

For AWS RDS you need to set following settings in Parameter groups:

binlog_format                       ROW
binlog_expire_logs_seconds          86400

• ClickHouse server config override.xml should include following settings (it makes clickhouse apply final keyword automatically to handle updates correctly):

<clickhouse>
    <!-- ... other settings ... -->
    <profiles>
        <default>
            <!-- ... other settings ... -->
            <final>1</final>
        </default>
    </profiles>
</clickhouse>

3. Start the replication:

mysql_ch_replicator --config config.yaml run_all

This will keep data in ClickHouse updating as you update data in MySQL. It will always be in sync.

One Time Data Copy

If you just need to copy data once, and don't need continuous synchronization for all changes, you should do following:

1. Prepare config file. Use example_config.yaml as an example.
2. Run one-time data copy:

mysql_ch_replicator --config config.yaml db_replicator --database mysql_db_name --initial_only=True

Where mysql_db_name is the name of the database you want to copy.

Don't be afraid to interrupt process in the middle. It will save the state and continue copy after restart.

Configuration

mysql_ch_replicator can be configured through a configuration file. Here is the config example:

mysql:
  host: 'localhost'
  port: 8306
  user: 'root'
  password: 'root'

clickhouse:
  host: 'localhost'
  port: 8323
  user: 'default'
  password: 'default'

binlog_replicator:
  data_dir: '/home/user/binlog/'
  records_per_file: 100000

databases: 'database_name_pattern_*'
tables: '*'

• mysql MySQL connection settings
• clickhouse ClickHouse connection settings
• binlog_replicator.data_dir Create a new empty directory, it will be used by script to store it's state
• databases Databases name pattern to replicate, e.g. db_* will match db_1 db_2 db_test, list is also supported
• tables (optional) - tables to filter, list is also supported

Few more tables / dbs examples:

databases: ['my_database_1', 'my_database_2']
tables: ['table_1', 'table_2*']

Advanced Features

Migrations & Schema Changes

mysql_ch_replicator supports the following:

• Adding Tables: Automatically starts replicating data from newly added tables.
• Altering Tables: Adjusts replication strategy based on schema changes.
• Removing Tables: Handles removal of tables without disrupting the replication process.

Recovery Without Downtime

In case of a failure or during the initial replication, mysql_ch_replicator will preserve old data and continue syncing new data seamlessly. You could remove the state and restart replication from scratch.

Development

To contribute to mysql_ch_replicator, clone the repository and install the required dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/your-repo/mysql_ch_replicator.git
cd mysql_ch_replicator
pip install -r requirements.txt

Running Tests

1. Use docker-compose to install all requirements:

sudo docker compose -f docker-compose-tests.yaml up

2. Run tests with:

sudo docker exec -w /app/ -it mysql_ch_replicator-replicator-1 python3 -m pytest -v -s test_mysql_ch_replicator.py

Contribution

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request for any bugs or features you would like to add.

License

mysql_ch_replicator is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to all the contributors who have helped build and improve this tool.