HStream CLI

We can run the following to use HStream CLI:

docker run -it --rm --name some-hstream-admin --network host hstreamdb/hstream:latest hstream --help

For ease of illustration, we execute an interactive bash shell in the HStream container to use HStream admin,

The following example usage is based on the cluster started in quick start, please adjust correspondingly.

docker exec -it docker_hserver_1 bash

hstream --help

======= HStream CLI =======

Usage: hstream [--host SERVER-HOST] [--port INT] [--tls-ca STRING]
               [--tls-key STRING] [--tls-cert STRING] [--retry-timeout INT]
               [--service-url ARG] COMMAND

Available options:
  --host SERVER-HOST       Server host value (default: "127.0.0.1")
  --port INT               Server port value (default: 6570)
  --tls-ca STRING          path name of the file that contains list of trusted
                           TLS Certificate Authorities
  --tls-key STRING         path name of the client TLS private key file
  --tls-cert STRING        path name of the client TLS public key certificate
                           file
  --retry-timeout INT      timeout to retry connecting to a server in seconds
                           (default: 60)
  --service-url ARG        The endpoint to connect to
  -h,--help                Show this help text

Available commands:
  sql                      Start HStream SQL Shell
  node                     Manage HStream Server Cluster
  init                     Init HStream Server Cluster
  stream                   Manage Streams in HStreamDB
  subscription             Manage Subscriptions in HStreamDB

Connection

HStream URL

The HStream CLI Client supports connecting to the server cluster with a url in the following format:

<scheme>://<endpoint>:<port>

Components	Description	Required
scheme	The scheme of the connection. Currently, we have hstream. To enable security options, hstreams is also supported	Yes
endpoint	The endpoint of the server cluster, which can be the hostname or address of the server cluster.	If not given, the value will be set to the --host default 127.0.0.1
port	The port of the server cluster.	If not given, the value will be set to the --port default 6570

Connection Parameters

HStream commands accept connection parameters as separate command-line flags, in addition (or in replacement) to --service-url.

TIP

In the cases where both --service-url and the options below are specified, the client will use the value in --service-url.

Option	Description
--host	The server host and port number to connect to. This can be the address of any node in the cluster. Default: 127.0.0.1
--port	The server port to connect to. Default: 6570

Security Settings (optional)

If the security option is enabled, here are some options that should also be configured for CLI correspondingly.

Encryption

If server encryption is enabled, the --tls-ca option should be added to CLI connection options:

hstream --tls-ca "<path to the CA certificate file>"

Authentication

If server authentication is enabled, the --tls-key and --tls-cert options should be added to CLI connection options:

hstream --tls-key "<path to the trusted role key file>" --tls-cert "<path to the signed certificate file>"

Check Cluster Status

hstream node --help

Usage: hstream node COMMAND
  Manage HStream Server Cluster

Available options:
  -h,--help                Show this help text

Available commands:
  list                     List all running nodes in the cluster
  status                   Show the status of nodes specified, if not specified
                           show the status of all nodes
  check-running            Check if all nodes in the the cluster are running,
                           and the number of nodes is at least as specified

hstream node list

+-----------+
| server_id |
+-----------+
| 100       |
| 101       |
+-----------+

hstream node status

+-----------+---------+-------------------+
| server_id |  state  |      address      |
+-----------+---------+-------------------+
| 100       | Running | 192.168.64.4:6570 |
| 101       | Running | 192.168.64.5:6572 |
+-----------+---------+-------------------+

hstream node check-running

All nodes in the cluster are running.

Manage Streams

We can also manage streams through the hstream command line tool.

hstream stream --help

Usage: hstream stream COMMAND
  Manage Streams in HStreamDB

Available options:
  -h,--help                Show this help text

Available commands:
  list                     Get all streams
  create                   Create a stream
  describe                 Get the details of a stream
  delete                   Delete a stream

Create a stream

Usage: hstream stream create STREAM_NAME [-r|--replication-factor INT]
                             [-b|--backlog-duration INT] [-s|--shards INT]
  Create a stream

Available options:
  STREAM_NAME              The name of the stream
  -r,--replication-factor INT
                           The replication factor for the stream (default: 1)
  -b,--backlog-duration INT
                           The backlog duration of records in stream in seconds
                           (default: 0)
  -s,--shards INT          The number of shards the stream should have
                           (default: 1)
  -h,--help                Show this help text

Example: Create a demo stream with the default settings.

hstream stream create demo

+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+
| Stream Name | Replica | Retention Time | Shard Count |
+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+
| demo        | 1       | 0 seconds      | 1           |
+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+

Show and delete streams

hstream stream list

+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+
| Stream Name | Replica | Retention Time | Shard Count |
+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+
| demo2       | 1       | 0 seconds      | 1           |
+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+

hstream stream delete demo

Done.

hstream stream list

+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+
| Stream Name | Replica | Retention Time | Shard Count |
+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+

Manage Subscription

We can also manage streams through the hstream command line tool.

hstream stream --help

Usage: hstream subscription COMMAND
  Manage Subscriptions in HStreamDB

Available options:
  -h,--help                Show this help text

Available commands:
  list                     Get all subscriptions
  create                   Create a subscription
  describe                 Get the details of a subscription
  delete                   Delete a subscription

Create a subscription

Usage: hstream subscription create SUB_ID --stream STREAM_NAME
                                   [--ack-timeout INT]
                                   [--max-unacked-records INT]
                                   [--offset [earliest|latest]]
  Create a subscription

Available options:
  SUB_ID                   The ID of the subscription
  --stream STREAM_NAME     The stream associated with the subscription
  --ack-timeout INT        Timeout for acknowledgements in seconds
  --max-unacked-records INT
                           Maximum number of unacked records allowed per
                           subscription
  --offset [earliest|latest]
                           The offset of the subscription to start from
  -h,--help                Show this help text

Example: Create a subscription to the stream demo with the default settings.

hstream subscription create --stream demo sub_demo

+-----------------+-------------+-------------+---------------------+
| Subscription ID | Stream Name | Ack Timeout | Max Unacked Records |
+-----------------+-------------+-------------+---------------------+
| sub_demo        | demo        | 60 seconds  | 10000               |
+-----------------+-------------+-------------+---------------------+

Show and delete streams

hstream subscription list

+-----------------+-------------+-------------+---------------------+
| Subscription ID | Stream Name | Ack Timeout | Max Unacked Records |
+-----------------+-------------+-------------+---------------------+
| sub_demo        | demo        | 60 seconds  | 10000               |
+-----------------+-------------+-------------+---------------------+

hstream subscription delete sub_demo

Done.

hstream subscription list

+-----------------+-------------+-------------+---------------------+
| Subscription ID | Stream Name | Ack Timeout | Max Unacked Records |
+-----------------+-------------+-------------+---------------------+

HStream SQL

HStreamDB also provides an interactive SQL shell for a series of operations, such as the management of streams and views, data insertion and retrieval, etc.

hstream sql --help

Usage: hstream sql [--update-interval INT] [--retry-timeout INT]
  Start HStream SQL Shell

Available options:
  --update-interval INT    interval to update available servers in seconds
                           (default: 30)
  --retry-timeout INT      timeout to retry connecting to a server in seconds
                           (default: 60)
  -e,--execute STRING      execute the statement and quit
  --history-file STRING    history file path to write interactively executed
                           statements
  -h,--help                Show this help text

Once you entered shell, you can see the following help info:

      __  _________________  _________    __  ___
     / / / / ___/_  __/ __ \/ ____/   |  /  |/  /
    / /_/ /\__ \ / / / /_/ / __/ / /| | / /|_/ /
   / __  /___/ // / / _, _/ /___/ ___ |/ /  / /
  /_/ /_//____//_/ /_/ |_/_____/_/  |_/_/  /_/


Command
  :h                           To show these help info
  :q                           To exit command line interface
  :help [sql_operation]        To show full usage of sql statement

SQL STATEMENTS:
  To create a simplest stream:
    CREATE STREAM stream_name;

  To create a query select all fields from a stream:
    SELECT * FROM stream_name EMIT CHANGES;

  To insert values to a stream:
    INSERT INTO stream_name (field1, field2) VALUES (1, 2);

There are two kinds of commands:

1. Basic shell commands, starting with :
2. SQL statements end with ;

Basic CLI Operations

To quit the current CLI session:

:q

To print out help info overview:

:h

To show the specific usage of some SQL statements:

:help CREATE

  CREATE STREAM <stream_name> [IF EXIST] [AS <select_query>] [ WITH ( {stream_options} ) ];
  CREATE {SOURCE|SINK} CONNECTOR <stream_name> [IF NOT EXIST] WITH ( {connector_options} );
  CREATE VIEW <stream_name> AS <select_query>;

Available SQL operations include: CREATE, DROP, SELECT, SHOW, INSERT, TERMINATE.

SQL Statements

All the processing and storage operations are done via SQL statements.

Stream

There are two ways to create a new data stream.

1. Create an ordinary stream:

CREATE STREAM stream_name;

This will create a stream with no particular function. You can SELECT data from the stream and INSERT to via the corresponding SQL statement.

2. Create a stream, and this stream will also run a query to select specified data from some other stream.

Adding a Select statement after Create with a keyword AS can create a stream will create a stream that processes data from another stream.

For example:

CREATE STREAM stream_name AS SELECT * from demo;

In the example above, by adding an AS followed by a SELECT statement to the normal CREATE operation, it will create a stream that will also select all the data from the demo.

After Creating the stream, we can insert values into the stream.

INSERT INTO stream_name (field1, field2) VALUES (1, 2);

There is no restriction on the number of fields a query can insert. Also, the type of value is not restricted. However, you need to make sure that the number of fields and the number of values are aligned.

The deletion command is DROP STREAM <Stream_name> ;, which deletes a stream, and terminates all the queries that depend on the stream.

For example:

SELECT * FROM demo EMIT CHANGES;

will be terminated if the stream demo is deleted;

DROP STREAM demo;

If you try to delete a stream that does not exist, an error message will be returned. To turn it off, you can use add IF EXISTS after the stream_name:

DROP STREAM demo IF EXISTS;

Show all streams

You can also show all streams by using the SHOW STREAMS command.

SHOW STEAMS;

+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+
| Stream Name | Replica | Retention Time | Shard Count |
+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+
| demo        | 3       | 0sec           | 1           |
+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+

Queries

Run a continuous query on the stream to select data from a stream:

After creating a stream, we can select data from the stream in real-time. All the data inserted after the select query is created will be printed out when the insert operation happens. Select supports real-time processing of the data inserted into the stream.

For example, we can choose the field and filter the data selected from the stream.

SELECT a FROM demo EMIT CHANGES;

This will only select field a from the stream demo.

How to terminate a query?

A query can be terminated if we know the query id:

TERMINATE QUERY <id>;

We can get all the query information by command SHOW:

SHOW QUERIES;

output just for demonstration :

+------------------+------------+--------------------------+----------------------------------+
| Query ID         | Status     | Created Time             | SQL Text                         |
+------------------+------------+--------------------------+----------------------------------+
| 1361978122003419 | TERMINATED | 2022-07-28T06:03:42+0000 | select * from demo emit changes; |
+------------------+------------+--------------------------+----------------------------------+

Find the query to terminate, make sure is id not already terminated, and pass the query id to TERMINATE QUERY

Or under some circumstances, you can choose to TERMINATE ALL;.

View

The view is a projection of specified data from streams. For example,

CREATE VIEW v_demo AS SELECT SUM(a) FROM demo GROUP BY a;

the above command will create a view that keeps track of the sum of a (which have the same values, because of groupby) and have the same value from the point this query is executed.

The operations on view are very similar to those on streams.

Except we can not use SELECT ... EMIT CHANGES performed on streams because a view is static and there are no changes to emit. Instead, for example, we select from the view with:

SELECT * FROM v_demo WHERE a = 1;

This will print the sum of a when a = 1.

If we want to create a view to record the sum of as, we can:

CREATE STREAM demo2 AS SELECT a, 1 AS b FROM demo;
CREATE VIEW v_demo2 AS SELECT SUM(a) FROM demo2 GROUP BY b;
SELECT * FROM demo2 WHERE b = 1;