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Mixed indexes risk permanent inconsistency when index writes fail but graph mutations succeed. This implements CDC (Change Data Capture) to ensure eventual consistency by publishing index mutations to Kafka for asynchronous processing.

Architecture

New janusgraph-cdc module provides:

  • Event Model - CdcMutationEvent serializes index mutations (additions/deletions/metadata) as JSON
  • Producer - KafkaCdcProducer publishes events to Kafka with configurable reliability
  • Worker - CdcWorker consumes events and applies mutations to IndexProvider
  • Transaction Wrapper - CdcIndexTransaction intercepts mutations before commit
  • Configuration - New config namespace index.<name>.cdc.*

CDC Modes

  • dual (default) - Write to index AND publish to Kafka for redundancy
  • skip - Only publish to Kafka, skip direct index writes
  • cdc-only - Alias for skip

Configuration

index.search.cdc.enabled=true
index.search.cdc.mode=dual
index.search.cdc.kafka-bootstrap-servers=localhost:9092
index.search.cdc.kafka-topic=janusgraph-index-cdc

Usage

CDC workers run as separate processes:

CdcWorker worker = new CdcWorker(
    kafkaServers,
    topicName,
    consumerGroupId,
    indexProvider,
    indexRetriever
);
worker.start();

Index transactions can be wrapped programmatically:

CdcIndexTransactionFactory factory = new CdcIndexTransactionFactory(config);
CdcIndexTransaction tx = factory.wrapIfEnabled(baseIndexTx);
// Mutations are captured and published to Kafka

Future Work

  • Integration with Backend (requires core changes to wrap IndexTransaction creation)
  • End-to-end test with Cassandra + Kafka + ElasticSearch (complex test infrastructure)
  • Metrics/monitoring integration

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<issue_title>Support CDC mode for Mixed Index mutations</issue_title>
<issue_description>Mixed Indexes are part of an external system and that's why stale indexes may appear in the system during failures. This can sometimes lead to permanent stale indexes and requires either in-flight index fixing when the index is found or proper transaction recoveries to align data between different storage systems (for example Cassandra and ElasticSearch).
This proposal it to allow using built-in change data capture (CDC) when it's available for mixed index mutations.
In such case, this will guarantee eventual consistency between mixed indexes and actual graph data.

Cassandra natively supports CDC (doc) and there is also available Debezium Connector for Cassandra.

To support this we should change JanusGraph Mixed index mutation mode to skip any mutations during original transaction and instead relay on the Debezium Connector to process Mixed Index mutations later. Alternatively, we could do both (mutate mixed index during original transaction and then trigger mutations again during CDC processing - just to ensure consistency in case of failures).

Related work on transaction recovery process #4872 </issue_description>

<agent_instructions>Add an ability to re-use Cassandra CDC via Debezium Connector to apply mixed index mutation updates following eventual consistency.
Broad idea:

  1. We store data in the storage system (Cassandra in this case).
  2. When Cassandra stores data in the edgestore table it triggers CDC to some Kafka topic. Should use Debezium Connector.
  3. We should run separate "JanusGraph CDC Workers" that read some CDC Kakfa topic and apply mutations to relevant mixed indexes.

We shouldn't push the whole partition to the Kafka Topic, but only the changes in that partition (i.e. separate columns that were affected: ADDED / UPDATED / DELETED).

Implement this solution and add relevant integration tests that check mixed index mutations via CDC (Cassandra + Kafka + ElasticSearch)</agent_instructions>

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Copilot AI and others added 4 commits October 29, 2025 15:30
Implemented CDC support infrastructure including:
- CDC event model and Kafka producer/consumer
- CDC-aware index transaction wrapper
- Configuration options for CDC modes
- Basic unit tests

Co-authored-by: porunov <17673243+porunov@users.noreply.github.com>
- Created CdcIndexTransactionFactory for managing CDC lifecycle
- Added comprehensive README with usage examples
- Implemented integration test with Kafka testcontainer
- Added testcontainers junit-jupiter dependency

Co-authored-by: porunov <17673243+porunov@users.noreply.github.com>
- Added comprehensive configuration tests
- Fixed CdcConfiguration to lazily load config values when enabled
- All tests passing successfully

Co-authored-by: porunov <17673243+porunov@users.noreply.github.com>
- Remove support for 'cdc_only' format, use only 'cdc-only'
- Set mode to null when CDC is disabled for clarity
- Update README to clarify supported mode values
- All non-Docker tests passing

Co-authored-by: porunov <17673243+porunov@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Support CDC mode for mixed index mutations Add CDC support for mixed index mutations via Kafka Oct 29, 2025
Copilot AI requested a review from porunov October 29, 2025 15:51
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Suppressed by #4906

@porunov porunov closed this Jun 28, 2026
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jun 30, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph,
  and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder, CdcWorkerConfiguration, CdcIndexUpdateWorker, and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner.

Testing: 39 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes, reindex
engine over vertex/edge/property-element indexes, worker loop via Kafka MockConsumer, full-chain
convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two
real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium ->
Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline. The full Debezium E2E is gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e Maven
profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the default
Java 8/11 build excludes it and stays green.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jun 30, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph,
  and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder, CdcWorkerConfiguration, CdcIndexUpdateWorker, and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner.

Testing: 39 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes, reindex
engine over vertex/edge/property-element indexes, worker loop via Kafka MockConsumer, full-chain
convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two
real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium ->
Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jun 30, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph,
  and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder, CdcWorkerConfiguration, CdcIndexUpdateWorker, and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner.

Testing: 39 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes, reindex
engine over vertex/edge/property-element indexes, worker loop via Kafka MockConsumer, full-chain
convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two
real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium ->
Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jun 30, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph,
  and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder, CdcWorkerConfiguration, CdcIndexUpdateWorker, and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner.

Testing: 39 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes, reindex
engine over vertex/edge/property-element indexes, worker loop via Kafka MockConsumer, full-chain
convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two
real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium ->
Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph,
  and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder, CdcWorkerConfiguration, CdcIndexUpdateWorker, and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner.

Testing: 41 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill/invalid-Base64 skip, reindex engine over vertex/edge/property-element indexes, worker
loop via Kafka MockConsumer incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure, full-chain
convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two
real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium ->
Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph,
  and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder, CdcWorkerConfiguration, CdcIndexUpdateWorker, and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner.

Testing: 41 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill/invalid-Base64 skip, reindex engine over vertex/edge/property-element indexes, worker
loop via Kafka MockConsumer incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure, full-chain
convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two
real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium ->
Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph,
  and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder, CdcWorkerConfiguration, CdcIndexUpdateWorker, and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner.

Testing: 43 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill/invalid-Base64 skip, reindex engine over vertex/edge/property-element indexes, worker
loop via Kafka MockConsumer incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure, fail-fast config
and CDC-enablement validation, full-chain
convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two
real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium ->
Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph,
  and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder, CdcWorkerConfiguration, CdcIndexUpdateWorker, and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner.

Testing: 43 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill/invalid-Base64 skip, reindex engine over vertex/edge/property-element indexes, worker
loop via Kafka MockConsumer incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure, fail-fast config
and CDC-enablement validation, full-chain
convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two
real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium ->
Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph,
  and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder, CdcWorkerConfiguration, CdcIndexUpdateWorker, and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner.

Testing: 44 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill/invalid-Base64 skip, reindex engine over vertex/edge/property-element indexes, worker
loop via Kafka MockConsumer incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure, fail-fast config
and CDC-enablement validation, full-chain
convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two
real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium ->
Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph,
  and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder, CdcWorkerConfiguration, CdcIndexUpdateWorker, and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner.

Testing: 45 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill/invalid-Base64 skip and delete-envelope after=null/before fallback, reindex engine over vertex/edge/property-element indexes, worker
loop via Kafka MockConsumer incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure, fail-fast config
and CDC-enablement validation, full-chain
convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two
real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium ->
Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph,
  and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder, CdcWorkerConfiguration, CdcIndexUpdateWorker, and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner.

Testing: 45 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill/invalid-Base64 skip and delete-envelope after=null/before fallback, reindex engine over vertex/edge/property-element indexes, worker
loop via Kafka MockConsumer incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure, fail-fast config
and CDC-enablement validation, full-chain
convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two
real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium ->
Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph,
  and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder, CdcWorkerConfiguration, CdcIndexUpdateWorker, and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner.

Testing: 45 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill/invalid-Base64 skip and delete-envelope after=null/before fallback, reindex engine over vertex/edge/property-element indexes, worker
loop via Kafka MockConsumer incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure, fail-fast config
and CDC-enablement validation, full-chain
convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two
real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium ->
Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph,
  and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder, CdcWorkerConfiguration, CdcIndexUpdateWorker, and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner.

Testing: 45 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill/invalid-Base64 skip and delete-envelope after=null/before fallback, reindex engine over vertex/edge/property-element indexes, worker
loop via Kafka MockConsumer incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure, fail-fast config
and CDC-enablement validation, full-chain
convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two
real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium ->
Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph,
  and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder, CdcWorkerConfiguration, CdcIndexUpdateWorker, and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner.

Testing: 46 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill skips for invalid-Base64/malformed-key and delete-envelope after=null/before fallback, reindex engine over vertex/edge/property-element indexes, worker
loop via Kafka MockConsumer incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure, fail-fast config
and CDC-enablement validation, full-chain
convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two
real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium ->
Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph,
  and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder, CdcWorkerConfiguration, CdcIndexUpdateWorker, and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner.

Testing: 47 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill skips for invalid-Base64/malformed-key and delete-envelope after=null/before fallback, reindex engine over vertex/edge/property-element indexes incl. document removal when an element loses all indexed fields, worker
loop via Kafka MockConsumer incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure, fail-fast config
and CDC-enablement validation, full-chain
convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two
real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium ->
Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph,
  and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder, CdcWorkerConfiguration, CdcIndexUpdateWorker, and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner.

Testing: 47 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill skips for invalid-Base64/malformed-key and delete-envelope after=null/before fallback, reindex engine over vertex/edge/property-element indexes incl. document removal when an element loses all indexed fields, worker
loop via Kafka MockConsumer incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure, fail-fast config
and CDC-enablement validation, full-chain
convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two
real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium ->
Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph
  (with a startup warning when cdc-only mode is configured), and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the
  backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering vertex, edge and property-element
  mixed indexes). The restore paths (ElementCategory.retrieve, IndexSerializer.removeElement) now
  accept custom String vertex ids in addition to Long, and RelationIdentifierUtils.findRelation no
  longer NPEs when a relation's adjacent vertex has been removed.
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder (parses the relation header directly, so IN-direction edge columns
  and value-less delete tombstones of MULTI edges resolve to the correct edge identity), the
  CdcWorkerConfiguration, the CdcIndexUpdateWorker (two-phase shutdown, interrupt-aware retries, no
  consumer leaks), and the standalone CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner. The deletion limits of
  cdc-only mode for constrained-multiplicity edge indexes and meta-property indexes are documented.

Testing: 54 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill skips for invalid-Base64/malformed-key, delete-envelope after=null/before fallback,
IN-direction columns and value-less edge-delete tombstones; reindex engine over
vertex/edge/property-element indexes incl. document removal when an element loses all indexed
fields, removed-endpoint edges, and custom String vertex ids; worker loop via Kafka MockConsumer
incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure and leak-free lifecycle; fail-fast config and
CDC-enablement validation; full-chain convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove
and out-of-order delivery) and two real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the
full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline covering the vertex AND edge
lifecycle (add/update/property-removal/delete) against real Debezium delete envelopes. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph
  (with a startup warning when cdc-only mode is configured), and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the
  backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering vertex, edge and property-element
  mixed indexes). The restore paths (ElementCategory.retrieve, IndexSerializer.removeElement) now
  accept custom String vertex ids in addition to Long, and RelationIdentifierUtils.findRelation no
  longer NPEs when a relation's adjacent vertex has been removed.
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder (parses the relation header directly, so IN-direction edge columns
  and value-less delete tombstones of MULTI edges resolve to the correct edge identity), the
  CdcWorkerConfiguration, the CdcIndexUpdateWorker (two-phase shutdown, interrupt-aware retries, no
  consumer leaks), and the standalone CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner. The deletion limits of
  cdc-only mode for constrained-multiplicity edge indexes and meta-property indexes are documented.

Testing: 54 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill skips for invalid-Base64/malformed-key, delete-envelope after=null/before fallback,
IN-direction columns and value-less edge-delete tombstones; reindex engine over
vertex/edge/property-element indexes incl. document removal when an element loses all indexed
fields, removed-endpoint edges, and custom String vertex ids; worker loop via Kafka MockConsumer
incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure and leak-free lifecycle; fail-fast config and
CDC-enablement validation; full-chain convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove
and out-of-order delivery) and two real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the
full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline covering the vertex AND edge
lifecycle (add/update/property-removal/delete) against real Debezium delete envelopes. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph
  (with a startup warning when cdc-only mode is configured), and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the
  backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering vertex, edge and property-element
  mixed indexes). The restore paths (ElementCategory.retrieve, IndexSerializer.removeElement) now
  accept custom String vertex ids in addition to Long, and RelationIdentifierUtils.findRelation no
  longer NPEs when a relation's adjacent vertex has been removed.
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder (parses the relation header directly, so IN-direction edge columns
  and value-less delete tombstones of MULTI edges resolve to the correct edge identity), the
  CdcWorkerConfiguration, the CdcIndexUpdateWorker (two-phase shutdown, interrupt-aware retries, no
  consumer leaks), and the standalone CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner. The deletion limits of
  cdc-only mode for constrained-multiplicity edge indexes and meta-property indexes are documented.

Testing: 54 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill skips for invalid-Base64/malformed-key, delete-envelope after=null/before fallback,
IN-direction columns and value-less edge-delete tombstones; reindex engine over
vertex/edge/property-element indexes incl. document removal when an element loses all indexed
fields, removed-endpoint edges, and custom String vertex ids; worker loop via Kafka MockConsumer
incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure and leak-free lifecycle; fail-fast config and
CDC-enablement validation; full-chain convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove
and out-of-order delivery) and two real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the
full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline covering the vertex AND edge
lifecycle (add/update/property-removal/delete) against real Debezium delete envelopes. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph
  (with a startup warning when cdc-only mode is configured), and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the
  backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering vertex, edge and property-element
  mixed indexes). The restore paths (ElementCategory.retrieve, IndexSerializer.removeElement) now
  accept custom String vertex ids in addition to Long, and RelationIdentifierUtils.findRelation no
  longer NPEs when a relation's adjacent vertex has been removed.
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder (parses the relation header directly, so IN-direction edge columns
  and value-less delete tombstones of MULTI edges resolve to the correct edge identity), the
  CdcWorkerConfiguration, the CdcIndexUpdateWorker (two-phase shutdown, interrupt-aware retries, no
  consumer leaks), and the standalone CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner. The deletion limits of
  cdc-only mode for constrained-multiplicity edge indexes and meta-property indexes are documented.

Testing: 54 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill skips for invalid-Base64/malformed-key, delete-envelope after=null/before fallback,
IN-direction columns and value-less edge-delete tombstones; reindex engine over
vertex/edge/property-element indexes incl. document removal when an element loses all indexed
fields, removed-endpoint edges, and custom String vertex ids; worker loop via Kafka MockConsumer
incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure and leak-free lifecycle; fail-fast config and
CDC-enablement validation; full-chain convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove
and out-of-order delivery) and two real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the
full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline covering the vertex AND edge
lifecycle (add/update/property-removal/delete) against real Debezium delete envelopes. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 2, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph
  (with a startup warning when cdc-only mode is configured), and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the
  backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering vertex, edge and property-element
  mixed indexes). The restore paths (ElementCategory.retrieve, IndexSerializer.removeElement) now
  accept custom String vertex ids in addition to Long, and RelationIdentifierUtils.findRelation no
  longer NPEs when a relation's adjacent vertex has been removed.
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder (parses the relation header directly, so IN-direction edge columns
  and value-less delete tombstones of MULTI edges resolve to the correct edge identity), the
  CdcWorkerConfiguration, the CdcIndexUpdateWorker (two-phase shutdown, interrupt-aware retries, no
  consumer leaks), and the standalone CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner. The deletion limits of
  cdc-only mode for constrained-multiplicity edge indexes and meta-property indexes are documented.

Testing: 54 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill skips for invalid-Base64/malformed-key, delete-envelope after=null/before fallback,
IN-direction columns and value-less edge-delete tombstones; reindex engine over
vertex/edge/property-element indexes incl. document removal when an element loses all indexed
fields, removed-endpoint edges, and custom String vertex ids; worker loop via Kafka MockConsumer
incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure and leak-free lifecycle; fail-fast config and
CDC-enablement validation; full-chain convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove
and out-of-order delivery) and two real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the
full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline covering the vertex AND edge
lifecycle (add/update/property-removal/delete) against real Debezium delete envelopes. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 2, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph
  (with a startup warning when cdc-only mode is configured), and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the
  backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering vertex, edge and property-element
  mixed indexes). The restore paths (ElementCategory.retrieve, IndexSerializer.removeElement) now
  accept custom String vertex ids in addition to Long, and RelationIdentifierUtils.findRelation no
  longer NPEs when a relation's adjacent vertex has been removed.
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder (parses the relation header directly, so IN-direction edge columns
  and value-less delete tombstones of MULTI edges resolve to the correct edge identity), the
  CdcWorkerConfiguration, the CdcIndexUpdateWorker (two-phase shutdown, interrupt-aware retries, no
  consumer leaks), and the standalone CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner. The deletion limits of
  cdc-only mode for constrained-multiplicity edge indexes and meta-property indexes are documented.

Testing: 54 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill skips for invalid-Base64/malformed-key, delete-envelope after=null/before fallback,
IN-direction columns and value-less edge-delete tombstones; reindex engine over
vertex/edge/property-element indexes incl. document removal when an element loses all indexed
fields, removed-endpoint edges, and custom String vertex ids; worker loop via Kafka MockConsumer
incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure and leak-free lifecycle; fail-fast config and
CDC-enablement validation; full-chain convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove
and out-of-order delivery) and two real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the
full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline covering the vertex AND edge
lifecycle (add/update/property-removal/delete) against real Debezium delete envelopes. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 2, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph
  (with a startup warning when cdc-only mode is configured), and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the
  backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering vertex, edge and property-element
  mixed indexes). The restore paths (ElementCategory.retrieve, IndexSerializer.removeElement) now
  accept custom String vertex ids in addition to Long, and RelationIdentifierUtils.findRelation no
  longer NPEs when a relation's adjacent vertex has been removed.
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder (parses the relation header directly, so IN-direction edge columns
  and value-less delete tombstones of MULTI edges resolve to the correct edge identity), the
  CdcWorkerConfiguration, the CdcIndexUpdateWorker (two-phase shutdown, interrupt-aware retries, no
  consumer leaks), and the standalone CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner. The deletion limits of
  cdc-only mode for constrained-multiplicity edge indexes and meta-property indexes are documented.

Testing: 54 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill skips for invalid-Base64/malformed-key, delete-envelope after=null/before fallback,
IN-direction columns and value-less edge-delete tombstones; reindex engine over
vertex/edge/property-element indexes incl. document removal when an element loses all indexed
fields, removed-endpoint edges, and custom String vertex ids; worker loop via Kafka MockConsumer
incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure and leak-free lifecycle; fail-fast config and
CDC-enablement validation; full-chain convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove
and out-of-order delivery) and two real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the
full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline covering the vertex AND edge
lifecycle (add/update/property-removal/delete) against real Debezium delete envelopes. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Jul 23, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh value.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied as one ElasticSearch _bulk per index.
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC).

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph
  (with a startup warning when cdc-only mode is configured), and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the
  backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering vertex, edge and property-element
  mixed indexes). The restore paths (ElementCategory.retrieve, IndexSerializer.removeElement) now
  accept custom String vertex ids in addition to Long, and RelationIdentifierUtils.findRelation no
  longer NPEs when a relation's adjacent vertex has been removed.
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder (parses the relation header directly, so IN-direction edge columns
  and value-less delete tombstones of MULTI edges resolve to the correct edge identity), the
  CdcWorkerConfiguration, the CdcIndexUpdateWorker (two-phase shutdown, interrupt-aware retries, no
  consumer leaks), and the standalone CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner. The deletion limits of
  cdc-only mode for constrained-multiplicity edge indexes and meta-property indexes are documented.

Testing: 54 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill skips for invalid-Base64/malformed-key, delete-envelope after=null/before fallback,
IN-direction columns and value-less edge-delete tombstones; reindex engine over
vertex/edge/property-element indexes incl. document removal when an element loses all indexed
fields, removed-endpoint edges, and custom String vertex ids; worker loop via Kafka MockConsumer
incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure and leak-free lifecycle; fail-fast config and
CDC-enablement validation; full-chain convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove
and out-of-order delivery) and two real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch, and the
full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline covering the vertex AND edge
lifecycle (add/update/property-removal/delete) against real Debezium delete envelopes. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e
Maven profile (auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the
default Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11 and
the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch
pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards
against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide, a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the
regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Aug 5, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh
  value. Worker transactions use skipDBCacheRead(): the worker JVM's database-level cache is
  never invalidated by remote writers, so reads must hit the live graph.
- No dual write: the only synchronous write is to storage; the index is updated downstream from
  the committed change stream, so it cannot diverge.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied in one transaction spanning all backing
  indexes (one ElasticSearch _bulk per index), with VERTEX changes batch-preloaded via
  getVertices(...) + multiQuery().properties().
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip the synchronous write; ES updated solely via CDC). Both are
  GLOBAL_OFFLINE: the commit-side skip and the worker's index discovery are one cluster-wide
  contract that per-instance values could split. cdc.synchronous=false without cdc.enabled=true
  logs a warning instead of being silently inert.

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side skip hook in StandardJanusGraph
  (cdc-only mixed-index updates are filtered out at generation time via an IndexAppliesToFunction
  passed to getIndexUpdates -- composite indexes are never filtered; has2iMods/WAL/lock semantics
  are unchanged -- with a startup warning when cdc-only mode is configured), and
  MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic reindex-from-current-state engine, covering
  vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes). The restore paths (ElementCategory.retrieve,
  IndexSerializer.removeElement) now accept custom String vertex ids in addition to Long,
  RelationIdentifierUtils.findRelation no longer NPEs when a relation's adjacent vertex has been
  removed, and findEdgeRelations returns an empty Iterable instead of null.
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option (no Kafka dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients): the CdcEventDecoder SPI,
  DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder (parses the relation header directly, so IN-direction edge columns
  and value-less delete tombstones of MULTI edges resolve to the correct edge identity), the
  CdcWorkerConfiguration (fail-fast validation; cdc.poll-timeout-ms must be positive;
  cdc.consumer.auto.offset.reset defaults to "earliest" but honors an explicit override), the
  CdcIndexUpdateWorker (two-phase shutdown, interrupt-aware retries, no consumer leaks), and the
  standalone CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner. The deletion limits of cdc-only mode for
  constrained-multiplicity edge indexes and meta-property indexes are documented.

Testing: 62 tests, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real serialized bytes incl.
poison-pill skips for invalid-Base64/malformed-key, delete-envelope after=null/before fallback,
IN-direction columns and value-less edge-delete tombstones, with assertions comparing full
RelationIdentifier identity incl. endpoint ids; reindex engine over vertex/edge/property-element
indexes incl. document removal when an element loses all indexed fields, removed-endpoint edges,
custom String vertex ids, multi-backing apply, unknown-id-in-batch, and a partitioned-vertex test
pinning both id contracts -- VERTEX changes canonicalize the partition-copy row id while
RelationIdentifier endpoints keep the raw partition-representative id; worker loop via Kafka
MockConsumer incl. at-least-once rewind on decode/apply failure and leak-free lifecycle;
fail-fast config, auto.offset.reset default/override and CDC-enablement validation; composite
indexes under cdc-only mode; full-chain convergence over Lucene incl. vertex/edge
add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two real-container E2Es -- worker -> Kafka ->
ElasticSearch, and the full Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline covering
the vertex AND edge lifecycle (add/update/property-removal/delete) against real Debezium delete
envelopes. The real-container tests are gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e Maven profile
(auto-activated on Java 17+, required by Debezium 3.x and Testcontainers 2.x); the default
Java 8/11 build excludes them and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests on Java 8 and 11
and the full real-container suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka ->
ElasticSearch pipeline -- on Java 17 with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change
and guards against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide (incl. tuning guidance for the retry
budget vs Kafka's max.poll.interval.ms during long index outages, and the auto.offset.reset
default), a 1.2.0 changelog upgrade note, and the regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh
  value. Worker transactions use skipDBCacheRead(): the worker JVM's database-level cache is
  never invalidated by remote writers, so reads must hit the live graph.
- Additions are never dual-written: the only synchronous write is to storage; documents are
  created and refreshed downstream from the committed change stream, so they cannot diverge.
- Deletions are routed by event identifiability, decided per deleted relation at commit:
  * A removed vertex document is keyed by the vertex id -- the partition key every event carries,
    including a whole-row partition delete -- so it is always removed by the worker.
  * A removed MULTI-multiplicity edge with a surviving endpoint leaves an ordinary column
    tombstone on that endpoint's row (its mirror copy) whose column carries the full edge
    identity: the worker removes the document. In particular, removing a super node with
    storage.drop-whole-row-on-vertex-removal while its neighbors survive costs one partition
    delete and ZERO synchronous index operations -- the per-edge work happens asynchronously in
    the CDC pipeline, where eventual consistency is the contract.
  * Deletions no event can identify are written synchronously by the deleting transaction, the
    only place their identities exist: constrained-multiplicity edges and meta-properties keep
    their relation id in the storage value region (absent from tombstones), and unidirected
    edges on removed vertices, self-loops, and edges whose both endpoints die in one transaction
    have no surviving mirror. These carry dual-mode-grade durability; the docs recommend
    tx.log-tx (whose PRECOMMIT entry durably records the deleted identities) plus transaction
    recovery to close the crash window, and note that a graph-scanning REINDEX cannot remove
    documents of already-deleted elements.
  * Updates (a deleted relation whose id the same transaction re-adds) never delete
    synchronously: the worker rewrites the still-live document id from current state, and a
    delayed synchronous whole-document delete could otherwise erase that rewrite with no later
    event to restore it.
  * The reverse race -- the worker reads a relation as live, a concurrent transaction deletes it
    and issues its synchronous document removal, then the worker's write lands last and would
    resurrect the document permanently -- is closed by post-write verification: the applier
    re-reads every relation document it wrote on a fresh snapshot and removes those whose
    element vanished, which decides every interleaving correctly.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied in one transaction spanning all backing
  indexes (one ElasticSearch _bulk per index), with VERTEX changes batch-preloaded via
  getVertices(...) + multiQuery().properties().
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up. The
  standalone runner supervises worker liveness and exits when every worker died unexpectedly, so
  a process supervisor can restart it instead of leaving a healthy-looking zombie.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table. Opening a
  store logs a warning when the option is enabled but the live table lacks cdc=true (the option
  only applies at table creation; an existing table must be ALTERed) -- otherwise that
  misconfiguration is a silent no-capture drift.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip synchronous additions; deletions no event can identify remain
  synchronous). Both are GLOBAL_OFFLINE: the commit-side filter and the worker's index discovery
  are one cluster-wide contract that per-instance values could split. cdc.synchronous=false
  without cdc.enabled=true logs a warning instead of being silently inert.

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side filters in StandardJanusGraph
  (cdc-only mixed-index additions are filtered out at generation time; deletions choose their
  filter per relation via the event-identifiability rule above; composite indexes are never
  filtered; has2iMods/WAL/lock semantics are unchanged -- with a startup warning when cdc-only
  mode is configured), and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic
  reindex-from-current-state engine, covering vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes,
  and issuing removals for constraint-mismatched live vertices on graphs with user-settable ids,
  where id reuse could leave a stale document from a previous incarnation). The restore paths
  (ElementCategory.retrieve, IndexSerializer.removeElement) now accept custom String vertex ids
  in addition to Long, RelationIdentifierUtils.findRelation no longer NPEs when a relation's
  adjacent vertex has been removed, and findEdgeRelations returns an empty Iterable instead of
  null. CdcElementChange documents the id contract for alternative capture sources (canonical
  vertex ids; raw partition-representative RelationIdentifier endpoints).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option and the live-table drift warning (no Kafka
  dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients 3.9.1, which carries the fixes for
  CVE-2025-27817/27818): the CdcEventDecoder SPI, DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder (parses the
  relation header directly, so IN-direction edge columns and value-less delete tombstones of
  MULTI edges resolve to the correct edge identity; canonicalizes partitioned-vertex ids for
  VERTEX changes; skips corrupt records -- invalid JSON/Base64, malformed keys, and string-id
  keys on graphs whose id regime forbids them -- while rethrowing transient backend failures so
  the batch is redelivered), the CdcWorkerConfiguration (fail-fast validation incl. rejecting a
  shared group.instance.id across multiple worker threads, which would fence itself forever;
  cdc.consumer.* passthrough; auto.offset.reset defaults to "earliest" and the docs explain why
  "latest" risks skipping events on a rebalance before a partition's first commit; pass-through
  settings colliding with managed consumer keys are warned about instead of silently ignored),
  the CdcIndexUpdateWorker (two-phase shutdown, interrupt-aware retries that stop when a
  shutdown arrives mid-backoff, jittered exponential backoff so multiple workers do not retry
  in lockstep, per-partition batch rewind on failure that tolerates partitions revoked
  mid-rewind, a paced error loop, no consumer leaks), and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner with worker-liveness supervision.

Testing: 80 tests across the touched modules, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real
serialized bytes incl. poison-pill skips for invalid-Base64/malformed-key/string-id-keys,
delete-envelope after=null/before fallback, payload-wrapped envelopes, IN-direction columns and
value-less edge-delete tombstones, with assertions comparing full RelationIdentifier identity
incl. endpoint ids and the real meta-property id; reindex engine over vertex/edge/property-element
indexes incl. document removal when an element loses all indexed fields, removed-endpoint edges,
custom String vertex ids, stale-document removal after id reuse under a different label, the
partitioned-vertex id contract driven through the applier to real documents, multi-backing apply
and unknown-id-in-batch; worker loop via Kafka MockConsumer incl. multi-partition rewind,
no-op-batch offset commits, run()-loop recovery after a failed batch and Error-death
observability; commit-side deletion routing: synchronous removal for both-endpoints-removed,
constrained-multiplicity and meta-property deletions, no synchronous removal for mirror-identified
deletions and same-id replacements; composite indexes under cdc-only mode; full-chain convergence
over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two real-container
E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch (runs on Java 8, 11 and 17), and the full Cassandra-CDC
-> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline covering the vertex AND edge lifecycle
(add/update/property-removal/delete) against real Debezium delete envelopes, including a
whole-row both-endpoints vertex drop whose edge document converges with no per-edge event. The
Debezium pipeline test is gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e Maven profile (auto-activated on
JDK 17-23; Debezium 3.x requires 17+ and cassandra-all 4.1.7 does not run on 24+); the default
Java 8/11 build excludes only the two Debezium-dependent sources and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests plus the real
Kafka+ElasticSearch worker test on Java 8 and 11 (Testcontainers' optional jna dependency is
re-added at test scope, matching janusgraph-cql/janusgraph-es), and the full real-container
suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline -- on Java 17
with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide (incl. the deletion-routing design and
its tx.log-tx recommendation, cdc_raw backpressure and the CDC disable/teardown path, systematic
RF>1 event duplication, tuning guidance for the retry budget vs Kafka's max.poll.interval.ms
during long index outages, the auto.offset.reset caveat, and document-TTL limits), a 1.2.0
changelog upgrade note, and the regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011rNFck9BY9s58qW3XQ1YTK
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit to porunov/janusgraph that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh
  value. Worker transactions use skipDBCacheRead(): the worker JVM's database-level cache is
  never invalidated by remote writers, so reads must hit the live graph.
- Additions are never dual-written: the only synchronous write is to storage; documents are
  created and refreshed downstream from the committed change stream, so they cannot diverge.
- Deletions are routed by event identifiability, decided per deleted relation at commit:
  * A removed vertex document is keyed by the vertex id -- the partition key every event carries,
    including a whole-row partition delete -- so it is always removed by the worker.
  * A removed MULTI-multiplicity edge with a surviving endpoint leaves an ordinary column
    tombstone on that endpoint's row (its mirror copy) whose column carries the full edge
    identity: the worker removes the document. In particular, removing a super node with
    storage.drop-whole-row-on-vertex-removal while its neighbors survive costs one partition
    delete and ZERO synchronous index operations -- the per-edge work happens asynchronously in
    the CDC pipeline, where eventual consistency is the contract.
  * Deletions no event can identify are written synchronously by the deleting transaction, the
    only place their identities exist: constrained-multiplicity edges and meta-properties keep
    their relation id in the storage value region (absent from tombstones), and unidirected
    edges on removed vertices, self-loops, and edges whose both endpoints die in one transaction
    have no surviving mirror. These carry dual-mode-grade durability; the docs recommend
    tx.log-tx (whose PRECOMMIT entry durably records the deleted identities) plus transaction
    recovery to close the crash window, and note that a graph-scanning REINDEX cannot remove
    documents of already-deleted elements.
  * Updates (a deleted relation whose id the same transaction re-adds) never delete
    synchronously: the worker rewrites the still-live document id from current state, and a
    delayed synchronous whole-document delete could otherwise erase that rewrite with no later
    event to restore it.
  * The reverse race -- the worker reads a relation as live, a concurrent transaction deletes it
    and issues its synchronous document removal, then the worker's write lands last and would
    resurrect the document permanently -- is closed by post-write verification: the applier
    re-reads every relation document it wrote on a fresh snapshot and removes those whose
    element vanished, which decides every interleaving correctly.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied in one transaction spanning all backing
  indexes (one ElasticSearch _bulk per index), with VERTEX changes batch-preloaded via
  getVertices(...) + multiQuery().properties().
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up. The
  standalone runner supervises worker liveness and exits when every worker died unexpectedly, so
  a process supervisor can restart it instead of leaving a healthy-looking zombie.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table. Opening a
  store logs a warning when the option is enabled but the live table lacks cdc=true (the option
  only applies at table creation; an existing table must be ALTERed) -- otherwise that
  misconfiguration is a silent no-capture drift.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip synchronous additions; deletions no event can identify remain
  synchronous). Both are GLOBAL_OFFLINE: the commit-side filter and the worker's index discovery
  are one cluster-wide contract that per-instance values could split. cdc.synchronous=false
  without cdc.enabled=true logs a warning instead of being silently inert.

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side filters in StandardJanusGraph
  (cdc-only mixed-index additions are filtered out at generation time; deletions choose their
  filter per relation via the event-identifiability rule above; composite indexes are never
  filtered; has2iMods/WAL/lock semantics are unchanged -- with a startup warning when cdc-only
  mode is configured), and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic
  reindex-from-current-state engine, covering vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes,
  and issuing removals for constraint-mismatched live vertices on graphs with user-settable ids,
  where id reuse could leave a stale document from a previous incarnation). The restore paths
  (ElementCategory.retrieve, IndexSerializer.removeElement) now accept custom String vertex ids
  in addition to Long, RelationIdentifierUtils.findRelation no longer NPEs when a relation's
  adjacent vertex has been removed, and findEdgeRelations returns an empty Iterable instead of
  null. CdcElementChange documents the id contract for alternative capture sources (canonical
  vertex ids; raw partition-representative RelationIdentifier endpoints).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option and the live-table drift warning (no Kafka
  dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients 3.9.1, which carries the fixes for
  CVE-2025-27817/27818): the CdcEventDecoder SPI, DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder (parses the
  relation header directly, so IN-direction edge columns and value-less delete tombstones of
  MULTI edges resolve to the correct edge identity; canonicalizes partitioned-vertex ids for
  VERTEX changes; skips corrupt records -- invalid JSON/Base64, malformed keys, and string-id
  keys on graphs whose id regime forbids them -- while rethrowing transient backend failures so
  the batch is redelivered), the CdcWorkerConfiguration (fail-fast validation incl. rejecting a
  shared group.instance.id across multiple worker threads, which would fence itself forever;
  cdc.consumer.* passthrough; auto.offset.reset defaults to "earliest" and the docs explain why
  "latest" risks skipping events on a rebalance before a partition's first commit; pass-through
  settings colliding with managed consumer keys are warned about instead of silently ignored),
  the CdcIndexUpdateWorker (two-phase shutdown, interrupt-aware retries that stop when a
  shutdown arrives mid-backoff, jittered exponential backoff so multiple workers do not retry
  in lockstep, per-partition batch rewind on failure that tolerates partitions revoked
  mid-rewind, a paced error loop, no consumer leaks), and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner with worker-liveness supervision.

Testing: 80 tests across the touched modules, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real
serialized bytes incl. poison-pill skips for invalid-Base64/malformed-key/string-id-keys,
delete-envelope after=null/before fallback, payload-wrapped envelopes, IN-direction columns and
value-less edge-delete tombstones, with assertions comparing full RelationIdentifier identity
incl. endpoint ids and the real meta-property id; reindex engine over vertex/edge/property-element
indexes incl. document removal when an element loses all indexed fields, removed-endpoint edges,
custom String vertex ids, stale-document removal after id reuse under a different label, the
partitioned-vertex id contract driven through the applier to real documents, multi-backing apply
and unknown-id-in-batch; worker loop via Kafka MockConsumer incl. multi-partition rewind,
no-op-batch offset commits, run()-loop recovery after a failed batch and Error-death
observability; commit-side deletion routing: synchronous removal for both-endpoints-removed,
constrained-multiplicity and meta-property deletions, no synchronous removal for mirror-identified
deletions and same-id replacements; composite indexes under cdc-only mode; full-chain convergence
over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two real-container
E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch (runs on Java 8, 11 and 17), and the full Cassandra-CDC
-> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline covering the vertex AND edge lifecycle
(add/update/property-removal/delete) against real Debezium delete envelopes, including a
whole-row both-endpoints vertex drop whose edge document converges with no per-edge event. The
Debezium pipeline test is gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e Maven profile (auto-activated on
JDK 17-23; Debezium 3.x requires 17+ and cassandra-all 4.1.7 does not run on 24+); the default
Java 8/11 build excludes only the two Debezium-dependent sources and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests plus the real
Kafka+ElasticSearch worker test on Java 8 and 11 (Testcontainers' optional jna dependency is
re-added at test scope, matching janusgraph-cql/janusgraph-es), and the full real-container
suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline -- on Java 17
with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide (incl. the deletion-routing design and
its tx.log-tx recommendation, cdc_raw backpressure and the CDC disable/teardown path, systematic
RF>1 event duplication, tuning guidance for the retry budget vs Kafka's max.poll.interval.ms
during long index outages, the auto.offset.reset caveat, and document-TTL limits), a 1.2.0
changelog upgrade note, and the regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes JanusGraph#4873
Replaces JanusGraph#4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011rNFck9BY9s58qW3XQ1YTK
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
porunov added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
Keep mixed indexes (ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene) eventually consistent with the graph by deriving
their updates from a Change-Data-Capture stream of the committed graph data, instead of a
synchronous second write during the transaction that can diverge on failure and leave a
permanently stale index.

Pipeline (Apache Cassandra): commit (graph data only) -> Cassandra edgestore(cdc=true) ->
Debezium -> Kafka -> CdcIndexUpdateWorker consumer group -> reindex-from-current-state -> ES bulk.

Key design points:
- Reindex-from-current-state: the worker reads each changed element's current graph state and
  fully replaces its index document (reusing IndexSerializer, like transaction recovery). This is
  idempotent and order-independent, so out-of-order or duplicate events still converge to the
  current state -- no strict ordering required, and a stale event can never overwrite a fresh
  value. Worker transactions use skipDBCacheRead(): the worker JVM's database-level cache is
  never invalidated by remote writers, so reads must hit the live graph.
- Additions are never dual-written: the only synchronous write is to storage; documents are
  created and refreshed downstream from the committed change stream, so they cannot diverge.
- Deletions are routed by event identifiability, decided per deleted relation at commit:
  * A removed vertex document is keyed by the vertex id -- the partition key every event carries,
    including a whole-row partition delete -- so it is always removed by the worker.
  * A removed MULTI-multiplicity edge with a surviving endpoint leaves an ordinary column
    tombstone on that endpoint's row (its mirror copy) whose column carries the full edge
    identity: the worker removes the document. In particular, removing a super node with
    storage.drop-whole-row-on-vertex-removal while its neighbors survive costs one partition
    delete and ZERO synchronous index operations -- the per-edge work happens asynchronously in
    the CDC pipeline, where eventual consistency is the contract.
  * Deletions no event can identify are written synchronously by the deleting transaction, the
    only place their identities exist: constrained-multiplicity edges and meta-properties keep
    their relation id in the storage value region (absent from tombstones), and unidirected
    edges on removed vertices, self-loops, and edges whose both endpoints die in one transaction
    have no surviving mirror. These carry dual-mode-grade durability; the docs recommend
    tx.log-tx (whose PRECOMMIT entry durably records the deleted identities) plus transaction
    recovery to close the crash window, and note that a graph-scanning REINDEX cannot remove
    documents of already-deleted elements.
  * Updates (a deleted relation whose id the same transaction re-adds) never delete
    synchronously: the worker rewrites the still-live document id from current state, and a
    delayed synchronous whole-document delete could otherwise erase that rewrite with no later
    event to restore it.
  * The reverse race -- the worker reads a relation as live, a concurrent transaction deletes it
    and issues its synchronous document removal, then the worker's write lands last and would
    resurrect the document permanently -- is closed by post-write verification: the applier
    re-reads every relation document it wrote on a fresh snapshot and removes those whose
    element vanished, which decides every interleaving correctly.
- Element-keyed Kafka partitioning gives per-element ordering and horizontal scaling via a
  consumer group; batches are de-duplicated and applied in one transaction spanning all backing
  indexes (one ElasticSearch _bulk per index), with VERTEX changes batch-preloaded via
  getVertices(...) + multiQuery().properties().
- At-least-once: offsets are committed only after a batch is durably applied; on failure the
  batch is reprocessed (rewind) rather than skipped, so the index eventually catches up. The
  standalone runner supervises worker liveness and exits when every worker died unexpectedly, so
  a process supervisor can restart it instead of leaving a healthy-looking zombie.

Configuration (opt-in, disabled by default):
- storage.cql.cdc: emit the Cassandra cdc=true table option on the edgestore table. Opening a
  store logs a warning when the option is enabled but the live table lacks cdc=true (the option
  only applies at table creation; an existing table must be ALTERed) -- otherwise that
  misconfiguration is a silent no-capture drift.
- index.[X].cdc.enabled / index.[X].cdc.synchronous: per-index dual mode (write synchronously AND
  via CDC) or cdc-only mode (skip synchronous additions; deletions no event can identify remain
  synchronous). Both are GLOBAL_OFFLINE: the commit-side filter and the worker's index discovery
  are one cluster-wide contract that per-instance values could split. cdc.synchronous=false
  without cdc.enabled=true logs a warning instead of being silently inert.

Components:
- janusgraph-core: per-index CDC config options, the commit-side filters in StandardJanusGraph
  (cdc-only mixed-index additions are filtered out at generation time; deletions choose their
  filter per relation via the event-identifiability rule above; composite indexes are never
  filtered; has2iMods/WAL/lock semantics are unchanged -- with a startup warning when cdc-only
  mode is configured), and MixedIndexUpdateApplier (the backend-agnostic
  reindex-from-current-state engine, covering vertex, edge and property-element mixed indexes,
  and issuing removals for constraint-mismatched live vertices on graphs with user-settable ids,
  where id reuse could leave a stale document from a previous incarnation). The restore paths
  (ElementCategory.retrieve, IndexSerializer.removeElement) now accept custom String vertex ids
  in addition to Long, RelationIdentifierUtils.findRelation no longer NPEs when a relation's
  adjacent vertex has been removed, and findEdgeRelations returns an empty Iterable instead of
  null. CdcElementChange documents the id contract for alternative capture sources (canonical
  vertex ids; raw partition-representative RelationIdentifier endpoints).
- janusgraph-cql: the storage.cql.cdc table option and the live-table drift warning (no Kafka
  dependency in production code).
- janusgraph-cdc (new module; core + kafka-clients 3.9.1, which carries the fixes for
  CVE-2025-27817/27818): the CdcEventDecoder SPI, DebeziumCassandraJsonDecoder (parses the
  relation header directly, so IN-direction edge columns and value-less delete tombstones of
  MULTI edges resolve to the correct edge identity; canonicalizes partitioned-vertex ids for
  VERTEX changes; skips corrupt records -- invalid JSON/Base64, malformed keys, and string-id
  keys on graphs whose id regime forbids them -- while rethrowing transient backend failures so
  the batch is redelivered), the CdcWorkerConfiguration (fail-fast validation incl. rejecting a
  shared group.instance.id across multiple worker threads, which would fence itself forever;
  cdc.consumer.* passthrough; auto.offset.reset defaults to "earliest" and the docs explain why
  "latest" risks skipping events on a rebalance before a partition's first commit; pass-through
  settings colliding with managed consumer keys are warned about instead of silently ignored),
  the CdcIndexUpdateWorker (two-phase shutdown, interrupt-aware retries that stop when a
  shutdown arrives mid-backoff, jittered exponential backoff so multiple workers do not retry
  in lockstep, per-partition batch rewind on failure that tolerates partitions revoked
  mid-rewind, a paced error loop, no consumer leaks), and the standalone
  CdcIndexUpdateWorkerMain runner with worker-liveness supervision.

Testing: 80 tests across the touched modules, including unit/component coverage (decoder vs real
serialized bytes incl. poison-pill skips for invalid-Base64/malformed-key/string-id-keys,
delete-envelope after=null/before fallback, payload-wrapped envelopes, IN-direction columns and
value-less edge-delete tombstones, with assertions comparing full RelationIdentifier identity
incl. endpoint ids and the real meta-property id; reindex engine over vertex/edge/property-element
indexes incl. document removal when an element loses all indexed fields, removed-endpoint edges,
custom String vertex ids, stale-document removal after id reuse under a different label, the
partitioned-vertex id contract driven through the applier to real documents, multi-backing apply
and unknown-id-in-batch; worker loop via Kafka MockConsumer incl. multi-partition rewind,
no-op-batch offset commits, run()-loop recovery after a failed batch and Error-death
observability; commit-side deletion routing: synchronous removal for both-endpoints-removed,
constrained-multiplicity and meta-property deletions, no synchronous removal for mirror-identified
deletions and same-id replacements; composite indexes under cdc-only mode; full-chain convergence
over Lucene incl. vertex/edge add/update/remove and out-of-order delivery) and two real-container
E2Es -- worker -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch (runs on Java 8, 11 and 17), and the full Cassandra-CDC
-> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline covering the vertex AND edge lifecycle
(add/update/property-removal/delete) against real Debezium delete envelopes, including a
whole-row both-endpoints vertex drop whose edge document converges with no per-edge event. The
Debezium pipeline test is gated behind the cassandra-cdc-e2e Maven profile (auto-activated on
JDK 17-23; Debezium 3.x requires 17+ and cassandra-all 4.1.7 does not run on 24+); the default
Java 8/11 build excludes only the two Debezium-dependent sources and stays green.

CI: a dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/ci-cdc.yml) runs the cdc unit tests plus the real
Kafka+ElasticSearch worker test on Java 8 and 11 (Testcontainers' optional jna dependency is
re-added at test scope, matching janusgraph-cql/janusgraph-es), and the full real-container
suite -- including the Cassandra-CDC -> Debezium -> Kafka -> ElasticSearch pipeline -- on Java 17
with Docker, so the integration is exercised on every change and guards against regression.

Docs: advanced-topics/cdc-mixed-index.md operator guide (incl. the deletion-routing design and
its tx.log-tx recommendation, cdc_raw backpressure and the CDC disable/teardown path, systematic
RF>1 event duplication, tuning guidance for the retry budget vs Kafka's max.poll.interval.ms
during long index outages, the auto.offset.reset caveat, and document-TTL limits), a 1.2.0
changelog upgrade note, and the regenerated configuration reference.

Fixes #4873
Replaces #4874

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011rNFck9BY9s58qW3XQ1YTK
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Porunov <alexandr.porunov@gmail.com>
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