Simple Multi Node Clickhouse Cluster

I hate those single-node clickhouse clusters and manually installation, I mean, why should we:

this is just weird!

So this repo tries to solve these problem.

Note

  • This is a simplified model of Multi Node Clickhouse Cluster, which lacks: LoadBalancer config/Automated Failover/MultiShard Config generation.
  • All clickhouse data is persisted under event-data, if you need to move clickhouse to some other directory, you’ll just need to move the directory(that contains docker-compose.yml) and docker-compose up -d to fire it up again.
  • Host network mode is used to simplify the whole deploy procedure, so you might need to create addition firewall rules if you are running this on a public accessible machine.

Prerequisites

To use this, we need docker and docker-compose installed, recommended OS is ubuntu, and it’s recommended to install clickhouse-client on machine, so on a typical ubuntu server, doing the following should be sufficient.

apt update
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh && sh get-docker.sh && rm -f get-docker.sh
apt install docker-compose clickhouse-client -y

Usage

  1. Clone this repo
  2. Edit the necessary server info in topo.yml
  3. Run python3 generate.py
  4. Your cluster info should be in the cluster directory now
  5. Sync those files to related nodes and run docker-compose up -d on them
  6. Your cluster is ready to go

If you still cannot understand what I’m saying above, see the example below.

Example Usage

Edit information

I’ve Clone the repo and would like to set a 3-master clickhouse cluster and has the following specs

  • 3 replica(one replica on each node)
  • 1 Shard only

So I need to edit the topo.yml as follows:

global:
  clickhouse_image: "yandex/clickhouse-server:21.3.2.5"
  zookeeper_image: "bitnami/zookeeper:3.6.1"

zookeeper_servers:
  - host: 192.168.33.101
  - host: 192.168.33.102
  - host: 192.168.33.103

clickhouse_servers:
  - host: 192.168.33.101
  - host: 192.168.33.102
  - host: 192.168.33.103

clickhouse_topology:
  - clusters:
      - name: "novakwok_cluster"
        shards:
          - name: "novakwok_shard"
            servers:
              - host: 192.168.33.101
              - host: 192.168.33.102
              - host: 192.168.33.103

Generate Config

After python3 generate.py, a structure has been generated under cluster directory, looks like this:

➜  simple-multinode-clickhouse-cluster git:(master) ✗ python3 generate.py 
Write clickhouse-config.xml to cluster/192.168.33.101/clickhouse-config.xml
Write clickhouse-config.xml to cluster/192.168.33.102/clickhouse-config.xml
Write clickhouse-config.xml to cluster/192.168.33.103/clickhouse-config.xml

➜  simple-multinode-clickhouse-cluster git:(master) ✗ tree cluster 
cluster
├── 192.168.33.101
│   ├── clickhouse-config.xml
│   ├── clickhouse-user-config.xml
│   └── docker-compose.yml
├── 192.168.33.102
│   ├── clickhouse-config.xml
│   ├── clickhouse-user-config.xml
│   └── docker-compose.yml
└── 192.168.33.103
    ├── clickhouse-config.xml
    ├── clickhouse-user-config.xml
    └── docker-compose.yml

3 directories, 9 files

Sync Config

Now we need to sync those files to related hosts(of course you can use ansible here):

rsync -aP ./cluster/192.168.33.101/ [email protected]:/root/ch/
rsync -aP ./cluster/192.168.33.102/ [email protected]:/root/ch/
rsync -aP ./cluster/192.168.33.103/ [email protected]:/root/ch/

Start Cluster

Now run docker-compose up -d on every hosts’ /root/ch/ directory.

Validation

On 192.168.33.101, use clickhouse-client to connect to local instance and check if cluster is there.

root@192-168-33-101:~/ch# clickhouse-client 
ClickHouse client version 18.16.1.
Connecting to localhost:9000.
Connected to ClickHouse server version 21.3.2 revision 54447.

192-168-33-101 :) SELECT * FROM system.clusters;

SELECT *
FROM system.clusters 

┌─cluster──────────────────────────────────────┬─shard_num─┬─shard_weight─┬─replica_num─┬─host_name──────┬─host_address───┬─port─┬─is_local─┬─user────┬─default_database─┬─errors_count─┬─estimated_recovery_time─┐
│ novakwok_cluster                             │         1 │            1 │           1 │ 192.168.33.101 │ 192.168.33.101 │ 9000 │        1 │ default │                  │            0 │                       0 │
│ novakwok_cluster                             │         1 │            1 │           2 │ 192.168.33.102 │ 192.168.33.102 │ 9000 │        0 │ default │                  │            0 │                       0 │
│ novakwok_cluster                             │         1 │            1 │           3 │ 192.168.33.103 │ 192.168.33.103 │ 9000 │        0 │ default │                  │            0 │                       0 │
│ test_cluster_two_shards                      │         1 │            1 │           1 │ 127.0.0.1      │ 127.0.0.1      │ 9000 │        1 │ default │                  │            0 │                       0 │
│ test_cluster_two_shards                      │         2 │            1 │           1 │ 127.0.0.2      │ 127.0.0.2      │ 9000 │        0 │ default │                  │            0 │                       0 │
│ test_cluster_two_shards_internal_replication │         1 │            1 │           1 │ 127.0.0.1      │ 127.0.0.1      │ 9000 │        1 │ default │                  │            0 │                       0 │
│ test_cluster_two_shards_internal_replication │         2 │            1 │           1 │ 127.0.0.2      │ 127.0.0.2      │ 9000 │        0 │ default │                  │            0 │                       0 │
│ test_cluster_two_shards_localhost            │         1 │            1 │           1 │ localhost      │ 127.0.0.1      │ 9000 │        1 │ default │                  │            0 │                       0 │
│ test_cluster_two_shards_localhost            │         2 │            1 │           1 │ localhost      │ 127.0.0.1      │ 9000 │        1 │ default │                  │            0 │                       0 │
│ test_shard_localhost                         │         1 │            1 │           1 │ localhost      │ 127.0.0.1      │ 9000 │        1 │ default │                  │            0 │                       0 │
│ test_shard_localhost_secure                  │         1 │            1 │           1 │ localhost      │ 127.0.0.1      │ 9440 │        0 │ default │                  │            0 │                       0 │
│ test_unavailable_shard                       │         1 │            1 │           1 │ localhost      │ 127.0.0.1      │ 9000 │        1 │ default │                  │            0 │                       0 │
│ test_unavailable_shard                       │         2 │            1 │           1 │ localhost      │ 127.0.0.1      │    1 │        0 │ default │                  │            0 │                       0 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┴──────────────┴─────────────┴────────────────┴────────────────┴──────┴──────────┴─────────┴──────────────────┴──────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
↘ Progress: 13.00 rows, 1.58 KB (4.39 thousand rows/s., 532.47 KB/s.) 
13 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.003 sec. 

Let’s create a DB with replica:

192-168-33-101 :) create database novakwok_test on cluster novakwok_cluster;

CREATE DATABASE novakwok_test ON CLUSTER novakwok_cluster

┌─host───────────┬─port─┬─status─┬─error─┬─num_hosts_remaining─┬─num_hosts_active─┐
│ 192.168.33.103 │ 9000 │      0 │       │                   2 │                0 │
│ 192.168.33.101 │ 9000 │      0 │       │                   1 │                0 │
│ 192.168.33.102 │ 9000 │      0 │       │                   0 │                0 │
└────────────────┴──────┴────────┴───────┴─────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
← Progress: 3.00 rows, 174.00 B (16.07 rows/s., 931.99 B/s.)  99%
3 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.187 sec. 

192-168-33-101 :) show databases;

SHOW DATABASES

┌─name──────────┐
│ default       │
│ novakwok_test │
│ system        │
└───────────────┘
↑ Progress: 3.00 rows, 479.00 B (855.61 rows/s., 136.61 KB/s.) 
3 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.004 sec. 

Connect to another host to see if it’s really working.

root@192-168-33-101:~/ch# clickhouse-client -h 192.168.33.102
ClickHouse client version 18.16.1.
Connecting to 192.168.33.102:9000.
Connected to ClickHouse server version 21.3.2 revision 54447.

192-168-33-102 :) show databases;

SHOW DATABASES

┌─name──────────┐
│ default       │
│ novakwok_test │
│ system        │
└───────────────┘
↘ Progress: 3.00 rows, 479.00 B (623.17 rows/s., 99.50 KB/s.) 
3 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.005 sec. 

License

GPL