Implements plan §3 "Task ID reconciliation":
- Every write fan-out collects per-node taskUid values
- Generate Miroir task ID mtask-<uuid>
- Persist mtask → {node_id: node_task_uid} in in-memory task registry
- Return mtask-xxxxx to client as {"taskUid": ...} in Meilisearch shape
- GET /tasks/{mtask_id} polls every mapped node task, aggregates status
- succeeded: all nodes report succeeded
- failed: any node reports failed; includes per-node error detail
- processing: otherwise
- GET /tasks with Meilisearch-compatible filters (statuses, types, indexUids, from, limit)
- DELETE /tasks/{mtask_id} for best-effort cancellation
Details:
- Polling cadence: exponential backoff (25ms → 50 → 100 → ... → 1s cap)
- In-memory registry using Arc<RwLock<HashMap<String, MiroirTask>>>
- NodeClient trait extended with get_task_status method
- TaskStatusResponse with to_node_status() conversion
- Background polling spawned per task with tokio::spawn
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Miroir
Multi-node Index Replication Orchestrator, Integrated Rebalancing
Miroir is a RAID-like orchestration layer for Meilisearch. It stripes a large index across a fleet of small-RAM Meilisearch nodes with a configurable replication factor, fans out search queries across all shards, and rebalances shard assignments when nodes are added or removed — all using the Meilisearch Community Edition.
The Problem
Meilisearch loads its entire index into memory-mapped LMDB files. A large index that exceeds a single server's available RAM cannot run on that server. The Enterprise Edition's native sharding is gated behind a commercial license. Miroir solves this without it.
How It Works
Client
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Miroir Orchestrator
├── Write path: hash(doc_id) → assign to shard → write to R replicas
├── Read path: scatter query to all shards → gather → merge ranked results
└── Rebalance: on node add/remove → recompute assignments → migrate minimum shards
Meilisearch Nodes (N instances, each holding a subset of shards)
node-0 node-1 node-2 ... node-N
Replication Factor
Analogous to software RAID — configurable per deployment:
| RF | Redundancy | Node failures tolerated | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None (stripe only) | 0 | 100% of fleet |
| 2 | One replica | 1 per shard group | 50% of fleet |
| 3 | Two replicas | 2 per shard group | 33% of fleet |
Key Components
- Orchestrator — proxy that handles shard routing, scatter-gather, result merging, and topology management
- Shard router — consistent hash function (Rendezvous/HRW) mapping document IDs to node assignments; minimal reshuffling on topology change
- Rebalancer — on node add/remove, recomputes assignments and migrates only the shards that changed owners; surviving replicas serve reads during rebuild
- Result merger — normalizes and merges ranked result sets from multiple shards into a single coherent response
Status
Design phase. See docs/ for architecture detail.