If we store raw column metadata into orchestration, byte[] value should be 
supported in orchestration.
metaData could be serialized into byte array using kryo framework etc

Also we should consider about refresh metadata without affecting running 
instance.

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Zhao Jun (cherrylzhao)
Apache ShardingSphere & ServiceComb

> On Jan 20, 2020, at 5:02 PM, guangyuan wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> What kind of help do you need in the orchestration module?  The
> orchestration module provides functions: writing and reading key-value pair.
> 
> Nicholas <[email protected]> 于2020年1月17日周五 下午4:02写道:
> 
>> Hi zhaojun,
>>   About ColumnMeta storage, we need ShardingSphere's orchestration module
>> to help register column metadata. And at best establish metadata module to
>> manage metadata of table, column etc. Field property like primary key etc
>> should be put into ColumnMeta to maintain. At last, could you please
>> provide the design document of MetaData Model & MetaData service, and take
>> distributed scenario into consideration.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Nicholas
>> 
>> On 2020/01/15 04:26:48, zhaojun <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi, all
>>> 
>>> I have created a issue[1] for discussing about optimizing metadata model.
>>> 
>>> Currently ShardingSphere metadata was only used by sharding & encrypt
>> scenario,
>>> master-slave case have to get them from underlying ResultSet meta in
>> sharding-proxy.
>>> It is better to establish an global MetaData mechanism which provide
>>> uniform interface for initialization, read, refreshing instead of
>> distinguish with usage scenario
>>> 
>>> I think it would be a big refactor for sharding-jdbc & sharding-proxy.
>>> assume that task list is as below
>>> 
>>> 1. investigate the usage of current metadata, clarify the function list
>> of metadata (SQLParse, Route,Rewrite etc)
>>> 2. design a MetaData Model & MetaData service, at first only consider
>> about storing in memory
>>> 3. then consider about migrating to zookeeper or other registration
>>> 
>>> [1]: https://github.com/apache/incubator-shardingsphere/issues/3922 <
>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-shardingsphere/issues/3922>
>>> 
>>> Any thought?
>>> 
>>> ------------------
>>> Zhao Jun (cherrylzhao)
>>> Apache ShardingSphere & ServiceComb
>>> 
>>> 
>> 

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