This short report brings to light some interesting commits to scylladb.git master from the last week. Commits in the 17d5879040a..4307126ef6b range are covered.
There were 100 non-merge commits from 24 authors in that period. Some notable commits:
The FROM clause of CQL SELECT statements is now optional. This simplifies experimenting with the syntax.
The nodetool sstable shard-of command now tolerates tables that were previously dropped.
Tablet metadata updates now generate smaller mutations, to avoid overflowing group0 command limit. This reduces problems on larger clusters.
Full-cluster backup is now available as a nodetool command or via the API.
Replication-factor reduction in tablets mode now triggers a repair.
A new scylla sstable dump command can dump any sstable component..
Materialized views now avoid compacting dead cells in the view-update path, as it can cause incorrect updates in some cases.
The performance benchmark for alternator now includes a test for batched reads.
The topology_requests table now records the target node of node operations.
See you in the next issue of last week in scylladb.git master!