SHOW DATABASES

Shows the list of databases that exist on this SingleStore Helios instance.

Syntax

SHOW DATABASES [EXTENDED]
[LIKE 'pattern']

Remarks

Output (EXTENDED option)

Column

Description

Database

Name of a database in the SingleStore Helios instance

Commits

Number of committed transactions

Role

Database replication role

State

Current state (Database States)

Position

Current position in the transaction log in memory, formatted as <LogFileId>:<ByteOffsetInLogFile>

Details

Optional message about the current state

AsyncSlaves

Number of currently attached asynchronous replicas

SyncSlaves

Number of currently attached synchronous replicas

ConsensusSlaves

Number of currently attached replicas running in consensus mode

CommittedPosition

Position up to which each transaction has been committed

HardenedPosition

Current position in the transaction log on disk

ReplayPosition

Position to which changes have been applied to replica

Term

A unique identifier of the current master instance of the database

LastPageTerm

Term of the master that wrote the contents of the most recent page in the log that the secondary instance is aware of the database

Memory (MBs)

Memory used by the database

Pending IOs

Number of transaction log pages (of size 4KB each) that are waiting to be persisted to disk

Database States

Within a SingleStore Helios instance, users can create one or more databases. These databases all reside in the SingleStore Helios workspace, with data sharded across nodes.

The SHOW DATABASES command with the EXTENDED option adds extra information per-database on top of the standard SHOW DATABASES output. The state column conveys the state of each database with respect to replication and recovery. A SingleStore Helios database is in one of the following eight states:

State

Description

online

The database is available for read and write queries. This is the default state after creating a new database. This is the only state in which a database can be a replication master. A database cannot be a replica in this state.

provisioning

Not available for read or write queries. During this state, the database is a replica and is currently downloading and replaying a snapshot file from the replication master. Once the snapshot has been successfully downloaded and replayed, the database will transition to the replicating state.

replicating

Available for read but not write queries. The database is a replica and is continually downloading and replaying committed transactions from the replication master. To find the lag between primary and secondary you can use SHOW REPLICATION STATUS. The exception is child aggregators, where databases show up as replicating but are in fact available for write queries.

pending

Not available for read or write queries. The database has finished recovering and is waiting for the master aggregator to attach it back into the workspace as a partition database or reference database. The database state will move to replicating or online once the master aggregator has finished attaching it.

recovering

Not available for read or write queries. This is the immediate state after starting SingleStore Helios. The database is currently recovering from snapshot and log files on disk. Once all data is recovered, the database will transition to replicating (if it’s a replica) or online (if it’s not a replica). If the end of the transaction log is corrupted (e.g. due to power loss) and the database is not a replica, then the database will transition to offline.

offline

Not available for read or write queries. You can use the REPAIR DATABASE command to repair the end of the transaction log and database will transition to online. As of MemSQL 4.0, the REPAIR DATABASE command will be executed automatically if an offline database is found during recovery to bring the database online.

unrecoverable

Not available for read or write queries. The database enters this state if recovery of the snapshot fails. Such a failure occurs if SingleStore Helios runs out of memory while loading the snapshot or if the snapshot file is damaged. The REPAIR DATABASE dbName command cannot be used in this state. If the database is a secondary database, you can force re-provisioning by running DROP DATABASE and then restarting replication with REPLICATE DATABASE dbName FROM ...

transition

Databases and partitions are not available for write queries, and are in the process of transitioning to their metadata state. This state can show up temporarily during online or offline failovers. If a partition is not mapped in metadata, then it might also be in the transition state.

Examples

SHOW DATABASES;
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| workspace            |
| memsql_demo        |
| information_schema |
| memsql             |
+--------------------+
SHOW DATABASES EXTENDED;
+--------------------+---------+--------+--------+----------+---------+-------------+------------+-----------------+-------------------+------------------+----------------+------+--------------+--------------+-------------+
| Database           | Commits | Role   | State  | Position | Details | AsyncSlaves | SyncSlaves | ConsensusSlaves | CommittedPosition | HardenedPosition | ReplayPosition | Term | LastPageTerm | Memory (MBs) | Pending IOs |
+--------------------+---------+--------+--------+----------+---------+-------------+------------+-----------------+-------------------+------------------+----------------+------+--------------+--------------+-------------+
| workspace            |       0 | master | online | 0:130    |         |           1 | 0          |               0 | 0:130             | 0:130            | NULL           |   24 |            0 |         0.00 |           0 |
| memsql_demo        |       0 | master | online | 0:269    |         |           1 | 0          |               0 | 0:269             | 0:269            | NULL           |   21 |            0 |         0.00 |           0 |
| information_schema |       0 | master | online | 0:1      |         |           0 | 0          |               0 | 0:1               | 0:1              | NULL           |    2 |            0 |         0.00 |           0 |
| memsql             |       0 | master | online | 0:408    |         |           0 | 0          |               0 | 0:408             | 0:408            | NULL           |   24 |            0 |         0.00 |           0 |
+--------------------+---------+--------+--------+----------+---------+-------------+------------+-----------------+-------------------+------------------+----------------+------+--------------+--------------+-------------+

Last modified: March 21, 2023

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