Add CDC support for mixed index mutations via Kafka

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Mixed indexes risk permanent inconsistency when index writes fail but graph mutations succeed. This implements CDC (Change Data Capture) to ensure eventual consistency by publishing index mutations to Kafka for asynchronous processing.

Architecture

New janusgraph-cdc module provides:

• Event Model - CdcMutationEvent serializes index mutations (additions/deletions/metadata) as JSON
• Producer - KafkaCdcProducer publishes events to Kafka with configurable reliability
• Worker - CdcWorker consumes events and applies mutations to IndexProvider
• Transaction Wrapper - CdcIndexTransaction intercepts mutations before commit
• Configuration - New config namespace index.<name>.cdc.*

CDC Modes

• dual (default) - Write to index AND publish to Kafka for redundancy
• skip - Only publish to Kafka, skip direct index writes
• cdc-only - Alias for skip

Configuration

index.search.cdc.enabled=true
index.search.cdc.mode=dual
index.search.cdc.kafka-bootstrap-servers=localhost:9092
index.search.cdc.kafka-topic=janusgraph-index-cdc

Usage

CDC workers run as separate processes:

CdcWorker worker = new CdcWorker(
    kafkaServers,
    topicName,
    consumerGroupId,
    indexProvider,
    indexRetriever
);
worker.start();

Index transactions can be wrapped programmatically:

CdcIndexTransactionFactory factory = new CdcIndexTransactionFactory(config);
CdcIndexTransaction tx = factory.wrapIfEnabled(baseIndexTx);
// Mutations are captured and published to Kafka

Future Work

• Integration with Backend (requires core changes to wrap IndexTransaction creation)
• End-to-end test with Cassandra + Kafka + ElasticSearch (complex test infrastructure)
• Metrics/monitoring integration

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Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Support CDC mode for Mixed Index mutations</issue_title>
<issue_description>Mixed Indexes are part of an external system and that's why stale indexes may appear in the system during failures. This can sometimes lead to permanent stale indexes and requires either in-flight index fixing when the index is found or proper transaction recoveries to align data between different storage systems (for example Cassandra and ElasticSearch).
This proposal it to allow using built-in change data capture (CDC) when it's available for mixed index mutations.
In such case, this will guarantee eventual consistency between mixed indexes and actual graph data.

Cassandra natively supports CDC (doc) and there is also available Debezium Connector for Cassandra.

To support this we should change JanusGraph Mixed index mutation mode to skip any mutations during original transaction and instead relay on the Debezium Connector to process Mixed Index mutations later. Alternatively, we could do both (mutate mixed index during original transaction and then trigger mutations again during CDC processing - just to ensure consistency in case of failures).

Related work on transaction recovery process #4872 </issue_description>

<agent_instructions>Add an ability to re-use Cassandra CDC via Debezium Connector to apply mixed index mutation updates following eventual consistency.
Broad idea:

1. We store data in the storage system (Cassandra in this case).
2. When Cassandra stores data in the edgestore table it triggers CDC to some Kafka topic. Should use Debezium Connector.
3. We should run separate "JanusGraph CDC Workers" that read some CDC Kakfa topic and apply mutations to relevant mixed indexes.

We shouldn't push the whole partition to the Kafka Topic, but only the changes in that partition (i.e. separate columns that were affected: ADDED / UPDATED / DELETED).

Implement this solution and add relevant integration tests that check mixed index mutations via CDC (Cassandra + Kafka + ElasticSearch)</agent_instructions>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

• Fixes Support CDC mode for Mixed Index mutations #4873

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