MySQL source connector: slow CDC replication

  • Is this your first time deploying Airbyte?: No
  • OS Version / Instance: Linux Ami 2
  • Memory / Disk: you can use something like 16Gb / 90 Gb
  • Deployment: Docker
  • Airbyte Version: 0.40.4
  • Source name/version: MySQL 0.6.8
  • Destination name/version: Redshift 0.3.47 (S3 Staging)
  • Step: sync
  • Description: Sync using CDC from MySQL to Redshift is very slow: it takes around 18 mins to sync just 9.9k records or 25 Mb which gives only 550 recs/min speed. See the screenshot. Is there any way to speed it up?

    The logs file is big to be attached here so here is the link to it File Sharing and Transfer - Send Large Files via FEX.NET
    From the logs, it looks like it collects a tiny bit of data and pushes it to the S3 and then repeats.

I’ve been trying to merge 🎉 Destination Redshift: File buffer increase limit by adam-bloom · Pull Request #15707 · airbytehq/airbyte · GitHub to fix this. I’ve been working around this for months by running a custom build of the redshift destination connector that has this fix.

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Wow, that’s great @adam!
@tuliren could you pls help to merge it or maybe there is an alternative for this issue?

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@alexnikitchuk glad its only annoying for you :slight_smile: Many of our syncs can include GBs of data that is a bit beyond annoying…it’s untenable…to write to S3 in tiny chunks.

Hopefully that fix is merged soon. We can’t be the only two users who have run into this! I made that change back in June but its taken a while to get through the review process.

Hey I have passed the PR around with the team and have requested to take a look at that in priority. I will also follow up again in the next week. Thanks for your patience.

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thanks @harshith! Let us know if you need any additional info.