# OxiRS Cluster
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**Status**: v0.4.1 - Released 2026-07-26 (1875 tests passing)
✨ **Production Release**: Production-ready with API stability guarantees and comprehensive testing.
A high-performance, distributed RDF storage system using Raft consensus for horizontal scaling and fault tolerance. Part of the OxiRS ecosystem providing a JVM-free alternative to Apache Jena + Fuseki with enhanced clustering capabilities.
## Features
- **Raft Consensus**: Strong consistency with automated leader election and log replication
- **Byzantine Fault Tolerance (opt-in)**: a closed-loop PBFT path behind the `bft` feature and `NodeConfig.use_bft` (v0.4.1) — commits are idempotent (extra commits past quorum never re-execute), a committed `RdfCommand` is applied to the real storage backend and returns a real `RdfResponse`, and `process_request` completes on a genuine 2f+1 quorum via a `(client_id, timestamp)`-keyed commit callback (configurable timeout). Requesting `use_bft` on a build compiled without the `bft` feature fails loud rather than silently downgrading
- **Horizontal Scaling**: Linear performance scaling to 1000+ nodes
- **High Availability**: 99.9% uptime with automatic failover
- **Distributed RDF Storage**: Efficient partitioning and indexing of RDF triples
- **SPARQL 1.2 Support**: Distributed query processing with federated queries
- **Enterprise Security**: TLS encryption, authentication, and access control
- **Operational Excellence**: Comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and management tools
- **Certification Suite**: `certification::CertificationSuite` runs deterministic, in-memory
simulations (no real sockets) validating consistency (read-your-writes, linearizability
probes, convergence), partition handling (island formation, quorum loss/recovery, split-brain
prevention), Raft safety invariants (leader uniqueness, log monotonicity), and SLA bounds
(read/write p99 latency, throughput floor)
## Architecture
```
┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐
│ Node A │ │ Node B │ │ Node C │
│ (Leader) │ │ (Follower) │ │ (Follower) │
├─────────────────┤ ├─────────────────┤ ├─────────────────┤
│ Raft Consensus │◄─┤ Raft Consensus │◄─┤ Raft Consensus │
│ RDF Storage │ │ RDF Storage │ │ RDF Storage │
│ Query Engine │ │ Query Engine │ │ Query Engine │
│ Network Layer │ │ Network Layer │ │ Network Layer │
└─────────────────┘ └─────────────────┘ └─────────────────┘
```
### Core Components
- **Consensus Layer**: Raft-based distributed consensus for strong consistency
- **Storage Layer**: Distributed RDF triple storage with efficient indexing
- **Network Layer**: High-performance inter-node communication
- **Discovery Service**: Automatic node registration and cluster membership
- **Query Engine**: Distributed SPARQL query processing
- **Replication**: Multi-master replication with conflict resolution
## Quick Start
### Prerequisites
- Rust 1.70+ (MSRV)
- Memory: 4GB+ recommended
- Network: Low-latency connection between nodes
### Installation
Add to your `Cargo.toml`:
```toml
# Experimental feature
[dependencies]
oxirs-cluster = "0.4.1"
```
### Basic Usage
```rust
use oxirs_cluster::{DistributedStore, NodeConfig};
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
// Initialize node configuration
let mut config = NodeConfig::new(1, "127.0.0.1:8080".parse()?);
config.data_dir = "./data".to_string();
config.add_peer(2);
config.add_peer(3);
// Start the distributed store (wraps a ClusterNode running Raft consensus)
let mut store = DistributedStore::new(config).await?;
store.start().await?;
// Insert RDF data (accepted on the leader; forwarded internally otherwise)
store
.insert_triple(
"http://example.org/alice",
"http://example.org/knows",
"http://example.org/bob",
)
.await?;
// Execute SPARQL query
let results = store.query_sparql("SELECT ?s ?p ?o WHERE { ?s ?p ?o }").await?;
println!("Results: {:?}", results);
Ok(())
}
```
### Multi-Node Cluster Setup
`oxirs-cluster` is a library crate — it does not bundle a multi-node launcher
binary. Wire `NodeConfig`/`DistributedStore` into your own binary (or a test
harness), giving each node a distinct `node_id` and the full peer set:
```rust
// Node 1 (peers 2 and 3)
let mut n1 = NodeConfig::new(1, "127.0.0.1:8080".parse()?);
n1.data_dir = "./data/node1".to_string();
n1.add_peer(2);
n1.add_peer(3);
// Node 2 (peers 1 and 3)
let mut n2 = NodeConfig::new(2, "127.0.0.1:8081".parse()?);
n2.data_dir = "./data/node2".to_string();
n2.add_peer(1);
n2.add_peer(3);
// Node 3 (peers 1 and 2)
let mut n3 = NodeConfig::new(3, "127.0.0.1:8082".parse()?);
n3.data_dir = "./data/node3".to_string();
n3.add_peer(1);
n3.add_peer(2);
// Start each `DistributedStore::new(n).await?.start().await?` in its own
// process/task; Raft handles leader election among the three automatically.
```
## Configuration
### Environment Variables
```bash
OXIRS_CLUSTER_NODE_ID=node-1
OXIRS_CLUSTER_BIND_ADDR=0.0.0.0:8080
OXIRS_CLUSTER_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/oxirs
OXIRS_CLUSTER_LOG_LEVEL=info
OXIRS_CLUSTER_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL=150ms
OXIRS_CLUSTER_ELECTION_TIMEOUT=1500ms
```
### Configuration File (oxirs-cluster.toml)
```toml
[cluster]
node_id = "node-1"
bind_address = "0.0.0.0:8080"
data_dir = "/var/lib/oxirs"
[raft]
heartbeat_interval = "150ms"
election_timeout = "1500ms"
max_log_entries = 10000
snapshot_threshold = 5000
[storage]
partition_count = 16
replication_factor = 3
compression = "lz4"
[network]
max_connections = 1000
connection_timeout = "30s"
message_timeout = "5s"
```
## Performance
### Benchmarks
- **Throughput**: 10,000+ operations/second per cluster
- **Latency**: <100ms for read queries, <200ms for writes
- **Scalability**: Linear performance to 1000+ nodes
- **Recovery**: <30 seconds for automatic failover
### Tuning
```rust
let mut config = NodeConfig::new(1, "127.0.0.1:8080".parse()?);
config
.add_peer(2)
.add_peer(3);
let config = config
.with_discovery(DiscoveryConfig::default())
.with_replication_strategy(ReplicationStrategy::default());
```
Raft election/heartbeat timing (`election_timeout_min`/`_max`, `heartbeat_interval`,
`max_batch_size`) defaults live in the crate-internal `raft_state::RaftConfig` and are not yet
exposed as `NodeConfig` builder methods.
## Monitoring
### Metrics
The cluster exposes Prometheus-compatible metrics:
- `oxirs_cluster_nodes_total`: Total number of cluster nodes
- `oxirs_cluster_leader_changes_total`: Number of leader changes
- `oxirs_cluster_queries_total`: Total queries processed
- `oxirs_cluster_query_duration_seconds`: Query latency histogram
- `oxirs_cluster_replication_lag_seconds`: Replication lag
### Health Checks
```bash
# Check cluster health
curl http://localhost:8080/health
# Check node status
curl http://localhost:8080/status
# Get cluster metrics
curl http://localhost:8080/metrics
```
## Development
### Building
```bash
# Build with all features
cargo build --all-features
# Run tests
cargo nextest run --no-fail-fast
# Run benchmarks
cargo bench
```
### Testing
```bash
# Unit tests
cargo test
# Integration tests
cargo test --test integration_tests
# Chaos engineering tests
cargo test --test chaos_engineering_tests
```
## Contributing
1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (`git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature`)
3. Make your changes
4. Add tests for your changes
5. Ensure all tests pass (`cargo nextest run --no-fail-fast`)
6. Run clippy (`cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings`)
7. Format your code (`cargo fmt --all`)
8. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add amazing feature'`)
9. Push to the branch (`git push origin feature/amazing-feature`)
10. Open a Pull Request
## License
This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.
## Acknowledgments
- [Raft Consensus Algorithm](https://raft.github.io/) by Diego Ongaro and John Ousterhout
- [OpenRaft](https://github.com/datafuselabs/openraft) for Rust Raft implementation
- [Apache Jena](https://jena.apache.org/) for RDF/SPARQL inspiration
- [OxiGraph](https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph) for RDF storage patterns
## Roadmap
### Post-1.0 Enhancements
- [x] Multi-region deployment support — `region_manager`, `cross_dc`, `cross_dc_consistency` modules
- [x] Advanced conflict resolution — `conflict_resolution` module (CRDTs, vector clocks)
- [x] Improved monitoring dashboard — `visualization_dashboard` module with REST API
- [x] Performance optimizations — `raft_optimization`, `performance_monitor`, SIMD Merkle hashing
- [x] Machine learning-based query optimization — `ml_optimization` module (Q-learning, cost optimization)
- [x] Edge computing integration — `edge_computing` module
- [x] Advanced security features — `security`, `encryption`, `tls`, `bft` (Byzantine fault tolerance) modules
- [ ] GraphQL federation support — cross-cluster query federation exists (`federation` module);
GraphQL-schema-level federation is a separate concern handled by `oxirs-gql`, not this crate
---
For more information, see the [OxiRS documentation](https://github.com/cool-japan/oxirs) and [TODO.md](TODO.md) for detailed implementation progress.