Migrate data from a MySQL database to OceanBase Database Community Edition

This topic describes how to use OceanBase Migration Service (OMS) Community Edition to migrate data from a MySQL database to OceanBase Database Community Edition.

Background information

You can create a data migration task in the console of OMS Community Edition to seamlessly migrate the existing business data and incremental data from a self-managed MySQL database to OceanBase Database Community Edition through schema migration, full migration, and incremental synchronization.

MySQL databases in the following modes are supported as the sources: primary database only, standby database only, and primary/standby databases. The following table describes the data migration operations supported by each mode.

Prerequisites

• You have enabled binlogs for the self-managed MySQL database. For more information, see Enable binlogs for a MySQL database.

• You have created dedicated database users for data migration in the self-managed MySQL database that serves as the source and OceanBase Database Community Edition that serves as the target, and granted the required privileges to the users. For more information, see Create a database user.

Limitations

• Limitations on operations in the source database

  Do not perform DDL operations that modify database or table schemas during schema migration or full migration. Otherwise, the data migration task may be interrupted.

• At present, OMS Community Edition supports MySQL 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, and 8.0. It supports the MySQL InnoDB, TokuDB, and X-Engine storage engines, and is unavailable for other engines.

• Direct load does not support writing data in the Latin1 character set. Otherwise, an exception will be thrown.

• The precheck fails if the primary key is of the FLOAT or DOUBLE data type. We recommend that you do not specify a column of such a data type as the primary key.

• If the target is a database, OMS Community Edition does not support triggers in the target database. If triggers exist in the target database, the data migration may fail.

• OMS Community Edition does not support an index column greater than 767 bytes (or 191 characters) in length in MySQL databases.

• The data source identifiers and user accounts must be globally unique in OMS Community Edition.

• OMS Community Edition supports the migration of only objects whose database name, table name, and column name are ASCII-encoded without special characters. The special characters are line breaks and | " ' ` ( ) = ; / &.

• If the lower_case_table_names settings of the source and target are different, the task cannot be created. If lower_case_table_names is set to 0 in the source and target databases, the source and target databases are case-sensitive. In this case, the task cannot be created either.

  By default, lower_table_case_names is set to 1 in the target database, and the target database objects are created with lowercase names.

• OMS Community Edition does not support the migration of cascading foreign keys from the source MySQL database.

• The clock of the source database must be synchronized with that of the target database.

Considerations

• To ensure the performance of a data migration task, we recommend that you migrate no more than 1,000 tables at a time.

• The host of the MySQL database must have sufficient outbound bandwidth. Insufficient outbound bandwidth on the host will slow down log parsing and data migration, which may increase the latency of data synchronization.

• Take note of the following considerations if the source and target databases use different collations:

  • The data in the target database may be inconsistent with that in the source database after data synchronization. For example, if the collation for the source database is utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci and that for the target database is utf8mb4_general_ci, two data records 'A' and 'A ' cannot be both written to the target database, causing data loss.

  • Data inconsistency will be detected during verification for a table that uses a column of the VARCHAR type as the primary key.

• If the source character set is Latin1, for more information about garbled characters, see Garbled characters in the Latin1 character set.

• If the clocks between nodes or between the client and the server are out of synchronization, the latency may be inaccurate during incremental synchronization or reverse increment.

  For example, if the clock is earlier than the standard time, the latency can be negative. If the clock is later than the standard time, the latency can be positive.

• If incremental parsing is required for the MySQL database, you must specify the ID of the MySQL server (server_id).

• When DDL synchronization is disabled, if you change the unique index in the target database, you must restart the Incr-Sync component. Otherwise, the data in the source and target databases may be inconsistent.

• In reverse increment from a MySQL database to OceanBase Database Community Edition of a version earlier than V3.2.x, if a source table is a multi-partition table with a global unique index and the values of the partitioning key of the table are updated, data can be lost during the migration.

• Check whether the migration precision of OMS Community Edition for columns of data types such as DECIMAL, FLOAT, and DOUBLE is as expected. If the precision of the target column type is lower than that of the source column type, the value with a higher precision may be truncated. This may result in data inconsistency between the source and target columns.

• In multi-table aggregation scenarios:

  • We recommend that you configure the mappings between the source and target databases by importing objects or specifying matching rules.

  • We recommend that you manually create schemas in the target database. If you use OMS Community Edition to create schemas, skip failed objects in the schema migration step.

• OMS Community Edition supports data migration between tables that have different numbers of columns. If an error is reported because a column of the source table does not exist in the target table during full migration or incremental synchronization, you can set the ignoreRedunantColumnsReplicate parameter of the Full-Import or Incr-Sync component to true and then resume the data migration task.

• A difference between the source and target table schemas may result in data consistency. Some known scenarios are described as follows:

  • When you manually create a table schema, if the data type of a column in the source is not supported by OMS Community Edition, implicit data type conversion may occur, which causes inconsistent column types between the source and target databases.

  • If the length of a column in the target database is shorter than that in the source database, the data of this column may be automatically truncated, which causes data inconsistency between the source and target databases.

• If the source MySQL database is in dual-primary or multi-primary architecture, set the log_slave_updates parameter to true. Otherwise, the data source may not receive all binlogs, causing data loss.

• If you select only Incremental Synchronization when you create the data migration task, OMS Community Edition requires that the local incremental logs in the source database be retained for more than 48 hours.

  ​​​If you select Full Migration and Incremental Synchronization when you create the data migration task, OMS Community Edition requires that the local incremental logs of the source database be retained for at least 7 days. Otherwise, the data migration task may fail or the data in the source and target databases may be inconsistent because OMS Community Edition cannot obtain incremental logs.

• If the source MySQL database is in the dual-primary or multi-primary architecture, set the log_slave_updates parameter to true. Otherwise, the data source may not receive all binlogs, causing data loss.

Data type mappings

Procedure

1. Create a data migration task.

   1. Log in to the console of OMS Community Edition.

   2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Data Migration.

   3. On the Migration Tasks page, click New Task in the upper-right corner.

2. On the Select Source and Target page, configure the parameters.

   Parameter	Description
   Migration Task Name	We recommend that you set it to a combination of digits and letters. It must not contain any spaces and cannot exceed 64 characters in length.
   Tag	Click the field and select a tag from the drop-down list. You can also click Manage Tags to create, modify, and delete tags. For more information, see Use tags to manage data migration tasks.
   Source	If you have created a MySQL data source, select it from the drop-down list. If not, click New Data Source in the drop-down list and create one in the dialog box that appears on the right. For more information about the parameters, see Create a MySQL data source. Note If you select Allow OMS to automatically write heartbeat data into this instance during incremental synchronization. This resolves the problem of high latency when no business data is written in the source database. when you add a MySQL data source, OMS Community Edition will create and update the drc.heartbeat table in the corresponding MySQL database. In that case, the MySQL database user must have the privileges to create and write the table. For more information, see Create and update a heartbeat table. You can select a MySQL data source in primary database only mode or primary/standby databases mode. This topic describes how to create a data migration task with a MySQL data source in primary/standby databases mode.
   Target	If you have created an OceanBase-CE data source, select it from the drop-down list. If not, click New Data Source in the drop-down list and create one in the dialog box that appears on the right. For more information about the parameters, see Create an OceanBase-CE data source.
   Scenarios	Two scenarios are available: Data Migration and Active-Active Disaster Recovery. In this example, select Data Migration. For more information about active-active disaster recovery scenarios, see Migrate data in active-active disaster recovery scenarios. This parameter is not displayed if the source is a standby database.
   Scenario Type	Valid values: Tables with Unique Key and All Tables. ​If a table has a primary key or non-null unique key, this table is a table with a unique key. If you select All Tables, tables with a primary key or a unique key and those without a unique key, except for temporary tables, are included. If you select Active-Active Disaster Recovery for Scenarios, you can migrate only tables with a unique key.

3. Click Next.

   If you have selected Tables with Unique Key for Scenario Type, click OK in the dialog box that appears.

4. On the Select Migration Type page, configure the parameters.

   Options for Migration Type are Schema Migration, Full Migration, Incremental Synchronization, Full Verification, and Reverse Increment.

   Migration type	Description
   Schema migration	The definitions of data objects, such as tables, indexes, constraints, comments, and views, are migrated from the source database to the target database. Temporary tables are automatically filtered out. In a task that migrates schemas from a MySQL database to OceanBase Database Community Edition, the database that does not exist in the target can be automatically created.
   Full migration	After a full migration task is started, OMS Community Edition migrates existing data of tables in the source database to corresponding tables in the target database. If you select Full Migration, we recommend that you use the ANALYZE statement to collect the statistics of the MySQL database before data migration.
   Incremental synchronization	Changed data in the source database is synchronized to the corresponding tables in the target database after an incremental synchronization task starts. Data changes are data addition, modification, and deletion. Options for Incremental Synchronization are DML Synchronization and DDL Synchronization. You can select the options as needed. For more information about DDL synchronization, see Supported DDL operations in incremental migration from a MySQL database to OceanBase Database Community Edition and limitations. Incremental Synchronization has the following limitations: If you select Incremental Synchronization, you need to enable binlogs for the source MySQL database, and set binlog_row_image to full and binlog_format to row. If you select Incremental Synchronization, the binlogs of the MySQL database must be retained for at least 24 hours. Otherwise, the migration task may be interrupted and cannot be resumed because of the absence of binlogs. If you select DDL Synchronization, when you perform a DDL operation that cannot be synchronized by OMS Community Edition in the source database, data migration may be interrupted. If the DDL operation creates a new column, we recommend that you set the column to NULL. Otherwise, data migration may be interrupted.
   Full verification	After the full migration and incremental synchronization are completed, OMS Community Edition automatically initiates a full verification task to verify the data tables in the source and target databases. If you select Full Verification, we recommend that you collect the statistics of both the source and target databases before full verification. For more information about how to collect statistics of OceanBase Database Community Edition, see Manual statistics collection. If you select Incremental Synchronization but do not select all DML operations in the DML Synchronization section, you cannot select Full Verification. OMS Community Edition supports full verification only for tables with a primary key or a non-null unique key. The index name cannot be PRIMARY or PRI during full verification.
   Reverse increment	When a reverse increment task starts, OMS migrates the data changed in the target database after the business switchover back to the source database in real time. If you select Reverse Increment, we recommend that you manually create the omstxndb database in MySQL. You cannot select Reverse Increment in the following cases: The Active-Active Disaster Recovery scenario is selected. When you create an active-active disaster recovery task to migrate data from a MySQL database to a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database, you do not need to specify reverse increment. OMS Community Edition automatically starts reverse increment after the task starts based on the settings of incremental synchronization. Multi-table aggregation is involved. Mutiple source schemas is mapped to one target schema. The source is a standby MySQL database.

5. (Optional) Click Next. If you have selected Reverse Increment but the ConfigUrl, RootService, or the username or password of the Data Replication Center (DRC) user is not configured for the target OceanBase-CE data source, the More about Data Sources dialog box appears, prompting you to configure related parameters. For more information about the parameters, see Create an OceanBase-CE data source.

   After you configure the parameters, click Test Connectivity. After the test succeeds, click Save.

6. Click Next. On the Select Migration Objects page, select the migration objects and migration scope.

   You can select Specify Objects or Match Rules to specify the migration objects. The following procedure describes how to specify migration objects by using the Specify Objects option. For information about the procedure for specifying migration objects by using the Match Rules option, see Configure matching rules for migration objects.

   Notice

   • If you select the Specify Objects option, do not select tables named in the "*_ghc" format.

     If you select the Match Rules option, set Object Exclusion Rule to {database_name}.*_ghc.

   • If a database or table name contains double dollar signs ("$$"), you cannot create the migration task.

   • If you have selected DDL Synchronization in the Select Migration Type step, we recommend that you select Match Rules to specify migration objects. This way, all new objects that meet the specified rules will be synchronized. If you select Specify Objects to specify migration objects, new or renamed objects will not be synchronized.

   

   1. In the Select Migration Objects section, select Specify Objects.

   2. In the Specify Migration Scope section, select the objects to be migrated from the Source Object(s) list. You can select tables and views of one or more databases as the migration objects.

   3. Click > to add the selected objects to the Target Object(s) list.

   OMS Community Edition also allows you to import objects from text, rename objects, set row filters, view column information, and remove a single migration object or all migration objects.

   Note

   When you select Match Rules to specify migration objects, object renaming is implemented based on the syntax of the specified matching rules. In the operation area, you can only set filter conditions. For more information, see Configure matching rules for migration objects.

   Operation	Description
   Import objects	In the list on the right of the Specify Migration Scope section, click Import Objects in the upper-right corner. In the dialog box that appears, click OK. Notice This operation will overwrite previous selections. Proceed with caution. In the Import Objects dialog box, import the objects to be migrated. You can import CSV files to rename databases/tables and set row filtering conditions. For more information, see Download and import the settings of migration objects. Click Validate. After the validation succeeds, click OK.
   Rename objects	OMS Community Edition allows you to rename migration objects. For more information, see Rename a database table.
   Configure settings	OMS Community Edition allows you to filter rows by using WHERE conditions. For more information, see Use SQL conditions to filter data. You can also view column information of the migration objects in the View Column section.
   Remove one or all objects	OMS Community Edition allows you to remove a single object or all objects to be migrated to the target database during data mapping. To remove a single migration object: In the list on the right of the Specify Migration Scope section, move the pointer over the target object and click Remove. To remove all migration objects: In the list on the right of the Specify Migration Scope section, click Remove All in the upper-right corner. In the dialog box that appears, click OK.

7. Click Next.

   If you select All Tables for Scenario Type, click Next in the dialog box that appears.

8. On the Migration Options page, configure the parameters.

   To view or modify parameters of the Full-Import or Full-Verification component, click Configuration Details in the upper-right corner of the Full Migration or Full Verification section. To view or modify parameters of the Incr-Sync or Reverse-Incr component, click Store Configuration Details or Configuration Details of incr Increment in the upper-right corner of the Incremental Synchronization or Reverse Increment section. For more information about the parameters, see Component parameters.

   • Schema migration

     The following parameters are displayed only if you have selected Schema Migration on the Select Migration Type page. You can configure the Character Set Mapping and Collation Mapping parameters as needed.

   • Full migration

     The following parameters are displayed only if you have selected Full Migration on the Select Migration Type page.

     Parameter	Description
     Concurrency Speed	Valid values: Stable, Normal, Fast, and Custom. The amount of resources to be consumed by a full migration task varies based on the migration performance. If you select Custom, you can set Read Concurrency, Write Concurrency, and JVM Memory as needed.
     Processing Strategy When Records Exist in Target Object	Valid values: Ignore and Stop Migration. If you select Ignore, when the data to be inserted conflicts with the existing data of a target table, OMS Community Edition retains the existing data and records the conflict data. Notice If you select Ignore, data is pulled in IN mode for full verification. In this case, the scenario where the target contains more data than the source cannot be verified, and the verification efficiency will be decreased. If you select Stop Migration and a target table contains data, an error is returned during full migration, indicating that the migration is not allowed. In this case, you must clear the data in the target table before you can continue with the migration. Notice After an error is returned, if you click Resume in the dialog box, OMS Community Edition ignores this error and continues to migrate data. Proceed with caution.
     Writing Method	Valid values: SQL (specifies to write data to tables by using INSERT or REPLACE) and Direct Load (specifies to write data through direct load). For more information about the direct load method, see Direct load.
     Post-Indexing	Specifies whether to create indexes after the full migration is completed. Post-indexing can shorten the time required for full migration. For more information about the considerations on post-indexing, see the description below. Notice This feature is supported only if you have selected both Schema Migration and Full Migration on the Select Migration Type page.

     If post-indexing is allowed, we recommend that you adjust the parameters based on the hardware conditions of the target database and the business traffic.

     • If you use OceanBase Database Community Edition V4.x, adjust the following parameters of the sys tenant and business tenants by using a command-line interface (CLI) client.

       • Adjust the parameters of the sys tenant

         // parallel_servers_target specifies the queuing conditions for parallel queries on each server.
         // To maximize performance, we recommend that you set this parameter to a value greater than, for example, 1.5 times, the number of physical CPU cores. In addition, make sure that the value does not exceed 64, to prevent database kernels from contending for locks.
         set global parallel_servers_target = 64; 
         

       • Adjust the parameters of a business tenant

         // Specify the limit on the file memory buffer size.
         alter system set _temporary_file_io_area_size = '10' tenant = 'xxx'; 
         // Disable throttling in V4.x.
         alter system set sys_bkgd_net_percentage = 100;  
         

     • If you use OceanBase Database Community Edition V3.x, adjust the following parameters of the sys tenant by using a CLI client.

       // parallel_servers_target specifies the queuing conditions for parallel queries on each server.
       // To maximize performance, we recommend that you set this parameter to a value greater than, for example, 1.5 times, the number of physical CPU cores. In addition, make sure that the value does not exceed 64, to prevent database kernels from contending for locks.
       set global parallel_servers_target = 64; 
       // `data_copy_concurrency` specifies the maximum number of concurrent data migration and replication tasks allowed in the system.
       alter system set data_copy_concurrency = 200; 
       

   • Incremental synchronization

     The following parameters are displayed only if you have selected Incremental Synchronization on the Select Migration Type page.

     Parameter	Description
     Concurrency Speed	Valid values: Stable, Normal, Fast, and Custom. The amount of resources to be consumed by an incremental synchronization task varies based on the synchronization performance. If you select Custom, you can set Read Concurrency, Write Concurrency, and JVM Memory as needed.
     Incremental Synchronization Start Timestamp	If you have selected Full Migration as the migration type, this parameter is not displayed. If you have selected Incremental Synchronization but not Full Migration, specify a point in time after which the data is to be synchronized. The default value is the current system time. For more information, see Set an incremental synchronization timestamp.
     Incremental Record Retention Time	The duration that incremental parsed files are cached in OMS Community Edition. A longer retention period results in more disk space occupied by the Store component of OMS Community Edition.

   • Full verification

     The following parameters are displayed only if you have selected Full Verification on the Select Migration Type page.

     Parameter	Description
     Concurrency Speed	Valid values: Stable, Normal, Fast, and Custom. Through resource configuration for the Full-Verification component, you can limit the resource consumption of a task in the full verification phase. If you select Custom, you can set Read Concurrency, Write Concurrency, and JVM Memory as needed.

   • Reverse increment

     On the Select Migration Type page, select Reverse Increment to display the following parameters.

     Parameter	Description
     Concurrency Speed	Valid values: Stable, Normal, Fast, and Custom. The performance of incremental synchronization varies, and the resources required for incremental synchronization tasks also vary. If you select Custom, you can set Read Concurrency, Write Concurrency, and JVM Memory as needed.
     Incremental Synchronization Start Timestamp	This parameter is displayed only when you select Reverse Increment as the migration type. Specify the data to be migrated after a certain point in time. The default value is the current system time. For more information, see Set the Incremental Synchronization Start Point.
     Incremental Record Retention Time	The duration for which incremental parsing files are cached in OMS Community Edition. The longer the retention time, the more disk space the OMS Community Edition Store component consumes.

9. Click Precheck to start a precheck on the data migration task.

   During the precheck, OMS Community Edition checks the read and write privileges of the database users and the network connectivity of the databases. A data migration task can be started only after it passes all check items. If an error is returned during the precheck, you can perform the following operations:

   • Identify and troubleshoot the problem and then perform the precheck again.

   • Click Skip in the Actions column of the failed precheck item. In the dialog box that prompts the consequences of the operation, click OK.

10. Click Start Task. If you do not need to start the task now, click Save to go to the details page of the data migration task. You can start the task later as needed.

    OMS Community Edition allows you to modify the migration objects when the data migration task is running. For more information, see View and modify migration objects. After the data migration task is started, it is executed based on the selected migration types. For more information, see the Migration Details section in the View details of a data migration task topic.

References

• Create a MySQL data source

• Create an OceanBase-CE data source

• Component parameters

• View and modify migration objects

• View details of a data migration task