Biweekly Report (Oct.29 - Nov.12) – Impressive Community Involvement - Contributors Boost PRs

Summary ​

Together with our global community of contributors, GreptimeDB continues to evolve and flourish as a growing open-source project. We are grateful to each and every one of you.

In the past two weeks, we have made steady progress. Below are some highlights:

• Fixed the EntityTooSmall issue when performing compaction on AWS S3.
• Implemented adaptive PageSize reduction for the KV PaginationStream.
• Support Configuring PhiAccrualFailureDetector Parameters.
• Development of the brand-new module region migration and inverted index is in progress.

Contributors ​

For the past two weeks, our community has been super active with a total of 56 PRs merged. 10 PRs from 3 external contributors merged successfully and lots pending to be merged.

Congrats on becoming our most active contributors in the past 2 weeks:

• @fbs (promql#76)

• @NiwakaDev (db#2630 db#2679 db#2643)

• @tisonkun (db#2731 db#2719 db#2724 db#2714 db#2709 db#2710)

👏 Welcome contributor @fbs to the community as new contributors, and congratulations on successfully merging their first PR!

The GreptimeDB community sincerely thanks member @tisonkun for contributing multiple PRs over the past two weeks, and even over the past month. In just the time span of this bi-weekly report, @tisonkun has contributed 6 PRs to our project. We highly appreciate his efficient contributions👍. There are more PRs from him waiting to be merged.

A big THANK YOU to all our members and contributors! It is people like you who are making GreptimeDB a great product. Let's build an even greater community together.

Highlights of Recent PR ​

#2712 Fixed an issue with EntityTooSmall occurring during compaction execution based on AWS S3. ​

#2689 KV PaginationStream Adapts to Reduce PageSize ​

When the response from the KV range interface exceeds the gRPC message size limit, the PaginationStream will decrease adaptively the PageSize and retry.

#2709 #2724 Support Configuring PhiAccrualFailureDetector Parameters ​

Previously, PhiAccrualFailureDetector could only use default values, but the above PRs now allow us to customize its settings in the Metasrv configuration file.

#2693 #2703 Region Migration and Inverted Index Development in Progress ​

Recently, engineers at GreptimeDB have been intensely working on region migration and inverted index development. Detailed designs can be referred to in the above RFC documents.

New Things ​

gtctl#175 ​

Incorporate kubectl-style plugin features, allowing gtctl to launch plugins using subcommand syntax.

gtctl#177 ​

Refactored the original command-line internal implementation, making the internal workings of the gtctl command line cleaner.

Recent Events ​

Last week, Greptime participated in KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 in Chicago. As a dynamic startup in the cloud-native open-source community, we seized the opportunity to connect with global professionals. Our founding team presented our latest tech innovations, garnering attention in the niche field of time-series databases.

For more on-site content from KubeCon'23, please check out our Vlog on YouTube👇 https://youtu.be/TSEZfw2NeBs?si=iA_v_6FjdR-m0AxU