quickwit-oss / quickwit-oss/quickwit

Add some random prefix to split ids.

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Rust
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Description

S3 creates partitions based on a prefix of the object keys.
Because we use ULID, splits coming from the same day end up on the same servers.
On the search side, most of the queries tend to target the last few days, and end up hitting the same servers.

For this reason, in some case, we can hit the per-prefix rate limiting.

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Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by tracing how split IDs become S3 object-key prefixes and how search requests locate recent splits; determine how a random prefix would be generated and interpreted. Done means recent data is distributed across prefixes without breaking split lookup or search behavior, with coverage for the resulting placement and lookup.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
aws, rust
Domain
backend, cloud, distributed-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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