Design Docs

Collection of design docs for some sections of Vitess

Query Serving

Query Serving related design docs

• Consistent lookup vindexes
• Locking functions
• Owned Primary Vindexes
• Replica Transactions
• Reserved Connections
• Set Statements

Table Lifecycle

Table lifecycle related documents

• Safe, lazy DROP TABLE

VTTablet

VTTablet related documents

• Componentizing TabletServer
• Fast vttablet state transitions
• Real-time parameter change
• The tabletmanager model
• VTTablet with RBR mode
• VTTablet YAML configuration

VReplication

VReplication related design docs

• File:Position based VReplication
• Life of a stream
• Vstream
• Character set support
• How traffic is switched
• Keys and iteration

Build And Process

Design docs related to the build framework and our development process

• PR Naming Conventions

Benchmark

Design docs related to the benchmarks of Vitess

• arewefastyet

Pages in this section

• Online DDL Scheduler