Step 3: Start and Configure Enterprise ColumnStore

Overview

This page details step 3 of a 5-step procedure for deploying Single-Node Enterprise ColumnStore with Object storage.

This step starts and configures MariaDB Enterprise Server and MariaDB Enterprise ColumnStore 23.10.

Interactive commands are detailed. Alternatively, the described operations can be performed using automation.

Configure Enterprise ColumnStore

Mandatory system variables and options for Single-Node Enterprise ColumnStore include:

Connector	MariaDB Connector/R2DBC
character_set_server	Set this system variable to utf8
collation_server	Set this system variable to utf8_general_ci
columnstore_use_import_for_batchinsert	Set this system variable to ALWAYS to always use cpimport for LOAD DATA INFILE and INSERT...SELECT statements.

Example Configuration

[mariadb]
log_error                              = mariadbd.err
character_set_server                   = utf8
collation_server                       = utf8_general_ci

Configure the S3 Storage Manager

Configure Enterprise ColumnStore S3 Storage Manager to use S3-compatible storage by editing the /etc/columnstore/storagemanager.cnf configuration file:

[ObjectStorage]
…
service = S3
…
[S3]
bucket                = your_columnstore_bucket_name
endpoint              = your_s3_endpoint
aws_access_key_id     = your_s3_access_key_id
aws_secret_access_key = your_s3_secret_key
# iam_role_name       = your_iam_role
# sts_region          = your_sts_region
# sts_endpoint        = your_sts_endpoint
# ec2_iam_mode        = enabled

[Cache]
cache_size = your_local_cache_size
path       = your_local_cache_path

The S3-compatible object storage options are configured under [S3]:

• The bucket option must be set to the name of the bucket that you created in "Create an S3 Bucket".

• The endpoint option must be set to the endpoint for the S3-compatible object storage.

• The aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key options must be set to the access key ID and secret access key for the S3-compatible object storage.

• To use a specific IAM role, you must uncomment and set iam_role_name, sts_region, and sts_endpoint.

• To use the IAM role assigned to an EC2 instance, you must uncomment ec2_iam_mode=enabled.

The local cache options are configured under [Cache]:

• The cache_size option is set to 2 GB by default.

• The path option is set to /var/lib/columnstore/storagemanager/cache by default.

Ensure that the specified path has sufficient storage space for the specified cache size.

Start the Enterprise ColumnStore Services

Start and enable the MariaDB Enterprise Server service, so that it starts automatically upon reboot:

$ sudo systemctl start mariadb

$ sudo systemctl enable mariadb

Start and enable the MariaDB Enterprise ColumnStore service, so that it starts automatically upon reboot:

$ sudo systemctl start mariadb-columnstore

$ sudo systemctl enable mariadb-columnstore

Create the Utility User

Enterprise ColumnStore requires a mandatory utility user account to perform cross-engine joins and similar operations.

1. Create the user account with the CREATE USER statement:

CREATE USER 'util_user'@'127.0.0.1'
IDENTIFIED BY 'util_user_passwd';

1. Grant the user account SELECT privileges on all databases with the GRANT statement:

GRANT SELECT, PROCESS ON *.*
TO 'util_user'@'127.0.0.1';

1. Configure Enterprise ColumnStore to use the utility user:

$ sudo mcsSetConfig CrossEngineSupport Host 127.0.0.1

$ sudo mcsSetConfig CrossEngineSupport Port 3306

$ sudo mcsSetConfig CrossEngineSupport User util_user

1. Set the password:

$ sudo mcsSetConfig CrossEngineSupport Password util_user_passwd

For details about how to encrypt the password, see "Credentials Management for MariaDB Enterprise ColumnStore".

Passwords should meet your organization's password policies. If your MariaDB Enterprise Server instance has a password validation plugin installed, then the password should also meet the configured requirements.

Configure Linux Security Modules (LSM)

The specific steps to configure the security module depend on the operating system.

Configure SELinux (CentOS, RHEL)

Configure SELinux for Enterprise ColumnStore:

1. To configure SELinux, you have to install the packages required for audit2allow. On CentOS 7 and RHEL 7, install the following:

$ sudo yum install policycoreutils policycoreutils-python

On RHEL 8, install the following:

$ sudo yum install policycoreutils python3-policycoreutils policycoreutils-python-utils

1. Allow the system to run under load for a while to generate SELinux audit events.

2. After the system has taken some load, generate an SELinux policy from the audit events using audit2allow:

$ sudo grep mysqld /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mariadb_local

If no audit events were found, this will print the following:

$ sudo grep mysqld /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mariadb_local

Nothing to do

1. If audit events were found, the new SELinux policy can be loaded using semodule:

$ sudo semodule -i mariadb_local.pp

1. Set SELinux to enforcing mode by setting SELINUX=enforcing in /etc/selinux/config.

For example, the file will usually look like this after the change:

# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
#     enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
#     permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
#     disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded.
SELINUX=enforcing
# SELINUXTYPE= can take one of three values:
#     targeted - Targeted processes are protected,
#     minimum - Modification of targeted policy. Only selected processes are protected.
#     mls - Multi Level Security protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted

1. Set SELinux to enforcing mode:

$ sudo setenforce enforcing

Configure AppArmor (Ubuntu)

For information on how to create a profile, see How to create an AppArmor Profile on ubuntu.com.

Next Step

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