Replicated Akka Persistence journal and snapshot store backed by Apache Cassandra.

To include the latest release of the Cassandra plugins for Akka 2.4.x into your sbt project, add the following lines to your build.sbt file:

libraryDependencies += "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-persistence-cassandra" % "0.28"

This version of akka-persistence-cassandra depends on Akka 2.4.18. It has been published for Scala 2.11 and 2.12.

To include the latest release of the Cassandra plugins for Akka 2.5.x into your sbt project, add the following lines to your build.sbt file:

libraryDependencies += Seq(
  "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-persistence-cassandra" % "0.53",
  "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-persistence-cassandra-launcher" % "0.53" % Test
)

This version of akka-persistence-cassandra depends on Akka 2.5.1. It has been published for Scala 2.11 and 2.12. The launcher artifact is a utility for starting an embedded Cassandra, useful for running tests. It can be removed if not needed.

Those versions are compatible with Cassandra 3.0.0 or higher, and it is also compatible with Cassandra 2.1.6 or higher (versions < 2.1.6 have a static column bug) if you configure cassandra-journal.cassandra-2x-compat=on in your application.conf. With Cassandra 2.x compatibility some features will not be enabled, e.g. eventsByTag.

• All operations required by the Akka Persistence journal plugin API are fully supported.
• The plugin uses Cassandra in a pure log-oriented way i.e. data are only ever inserted but never updated (deletions are made on user request only).
• Writes of messages are batched to optimize throughput for persistAsync. See batch writes for details how to configure batch sizes. The plugin was tested to work properly under high load.
• Messages written by a single persistent actor are partitioned across the cluster to achieve scalability with data volume by adding nodes.
• Persistence Query support by CassandraReadJournal

To activate the journal plugin, add the following line to your Akka application.conf:

akka.persistence.journal.plugin = "cassandra-journal"

This will run the journal with its default settings. The default settings can be changed with the configuration properties defined in reference.conf:

• Detailed tests under failure conditions are still missing.
• Range deletion performance (i.e. deleteMessages up to a specified sequence number) depends on the extend of previous deletions
  • linearly increases with the number of tombstones generated by previous permanent deletions and drops to a minimum after compaction

These issues are likely to be resolved in future versions of the plugin.

• Implements the Akka Persistence snapshot store plugin API.

To activate the snapshot-store plugin, add the following line to your Akka application.conf:

akka.persistence.snapshot-store.plugin = "cassandra-snapshot-store"

This will run the snapshot store with its default settings. The default settings can be changed with the configuration properties defined in reference.conf:

It implements the following Persistence Queries:

• persistenceIds, currentPersistenceIds
• eventsByPersistenceId, currentEventsByPersistenceId
• eventsByTag, currentEventsByTag (only for Cassandra 3.x)

Persistence Query usage example to obtain a stream with all events tagged with "someTag" with Persistence Query:

val queries = PersistenceQuery(system).readJournalFor[CassandraReadJournal](CassandraReadJournal.Identifier)
queries.eventsByTag("someTag", Offset.noOffset)

CassandraLauncher has been pulled out into its own artifact, and now bundles Cassandra into a single fat jar, which is bundled into the launcher artifact. This has allowed Cassandra to be launched without it being on the classpath, which prevents classpath conflicts, but it also means that Cassandra can't be configured by changing files on the classpath, for example, a custom logback.xml in src/test/resources is no longer sufficient to configure Cassandra's logging. To address this, CassandraLauncher.start now accepts a list of classpath elements that will be added to the classpath, and provides a utility for locating classpath elements based on resource name.

To depend on the new CassandraLauncher artifact, remove any dependency on cassandra-all itself, and add:

"com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-persistence-cassandra-launcher" % "0.52"

to your build. To modify the classpath that Cassandra uses, for example, if you have a logback.xml file in your src/test/resources directory that you want Cassandra to use, you can do this:

CassandraLauncher.start(
   cassandraDirectory,
   CassandraLauncher.DefaultTestConfigResource,
   clean = true,
   port = 0,
   CassandraLauncher.classpathForResources("logback.xml")
)

The Persistence Query API changed slightly, see migration guide for Akka 2.5.

Dispatcher configuration was changed, see reference.conf:

The event data, snapshot data and meta data are stored in a separate columns instead of being wrapped in blob. Run the following statements in cqlsh:

drop materialized view akka.eventsbytag;
alter table akka.messages add writer_uuid text;
alter table akka.messages add ser_id int;
alter table akka.messages add ser_manifest text;
alter table akka.messages add event_manifest text;
alter table akka.messages add event blob;
alter table akka_snapshot.snapshots add ser_id int;
alter table akka_snapshot.snapshots add ser_manifest text;
alter table akka_snapshot.snapshots add snapshot_data blob;

Schema changes mean that you can't upgrade from version 0.6 for Cassandra 2.x of the plugin to the 0.7 version and use existing data without schema migration. You should be able to export the data and load it to the new table definition.

Schema and property changes mean that you can't currently upgrade from 0.3 to 0.4 SNAPSHOT and use existing data without schema migration. You should be able to export the data and load it to the new table definition.