Add 429 rate limit handling with circuit breaker and Thrift fallback (#1126)

## Summary
Implements comprehensive 429 rate limit handling with automatic fallback
to Thrift when SEA encounters rate limiting.

## Changes

### Production Code

1. **SeaCircuitBreakerManager** - Circuit breaker for rate limit
handling
   - Opens for 24 hours after 429 failure
   - JVM-wide static state with volatile timestamp for thread safety
   - Provides time remaining calculations and formatted output

2. **DatabricksRateLimitException** - New exception type for 429 errors
   - Extends DatabricksSQLException with RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED error code
   - Captures HTTP 429 status code

3. **DatabricksSdkClient** - Enhanced to detect and handle 429 responses
   - Detects 429 errors from SEA session creation
   - Throws DatabricksRateLimitException with proper error details

4. **DatabricksSession** - Circuit breaker integration
   - Catches rate limit exceptions during SEA session creation
   - Opens circuit breaker on 429 failures
   - Logs warnings with retry-after headers

5. **DatabricksConnectionContext** - Client type selection with circuit
breaker
   - Checks circuit breaker state before selecting client type
   - Falls back to Thrift when circuit is open
   - Logs circuit breaker state with time remaining

### Tests

**Unit Tests (24 total)**:
- SeaCircuitBreakerManagerTest (13 tests) - Circuit state, thread
safety, timing
- DatabricksRateLimitExceptionTest (11 tests) - Exception creation and
properties

**Integration Tests (3 total)**:
- CircuitBreakerIntegrationTests - Verifies automatic Thrift fallback
  - testthriftwithcircuitopen - Connection uses Thrift when circuit open
  - testcircuitremainsopen - Circuit persists across connections
  - testmultipleconnectionswithcircuitopen - JVM-wide state sharing

**CI/CD**: Updated GitHub workflow to run integration tests in
THRIFT_SERVER mode

## Test Plan
- [x] All unit tests pass (24/24)
- [x] All integration tests pass with `FAKE_SERVICE_TYPE=THRIFT_SERVER`
(3/3)
- [x] CI workflow updated to include circuit breaker tests
- [x] Manual verification of circuit breaker behavior

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Samikshya Chand <148681192+samikshya-db@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: 3 people

.github/workflows/prIntegrationTests.yml

@@ -14,8 +14,11 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         include:
-          - test-command: mvn -B compile test -Dtest=*IntegrationTests,!M2MPrivateKeyCredentialsIntegrationTests,!M2MAuthIntegrationTests
+          # SQL_EXEC mode: Tests SEA client behavior
+          # Note: CircuitBreakerIntegrationTests requires THRIFT_SERVER mode (tested in second matrix entry)
+          - test-command: mvn -B compile test -Dtest=*IntegrationTests,!M2MPrivateKeyCredentialsIntegrationTests,!M2MAuthIntegrationTests,!CircuitBreakerIntegrationTests
             fake-service-type: 'SQL_EXEC'
+          # THRIFT_SERVER mode: Tests Thrift client behavior and circuit breaker fallback
           - test-command: mvn -B compile test -Dtest=*IntegrationTests,!M2MPrivateKeyCredentialsIntegrationTests,!SqlExecApiHybridResultsIntegrationTests,!DBFSVolumeIntegrationTests,!M2MAuthIntegrationTests,!UCVolumeIntegrationTests,!SqlExecApiIntegrationTests
             fake-service-type: 'THRIFT_SERVER'
     steps:

NEXT_CHANGELOG.md

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 ### Updated
 - Added validation for positive integer configuration properties (RowsFetchedPerBlock, BatchInsertSize, etc.) to prevent hangs and errors when set to zero or negative values.
 - Updated Circuit breaker to be triggered by 429 errors too.
+- Added separate circuit breaker to handle 429 from SEA connection creation calls, and fall back to Thrift.
 
 ### Fixed
 

src/main/java/com/databricks/jdbc/api/impl/DatabricksConnectionContext.java

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 
 import com.databricks.jdbc.api.internal.IDatabricksConnectionContext;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.common.*;
+import com.databricks.jdbc.common.SeaCircuitBreakerManager;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.common.safe.DatabricksDriverFeatureFlagsContextFactory;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.common.util.ValidationUtil;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.exception.DatabricksDriverException;
@@ -457,6 +458,16 @@ public DatabricksClientType getClientTypeFromContext() {
       }
     }
     // Now, user has not provided a value, we will decide based on our checks
+    // Check if circuit breaker is open due to recent 429 rate limit failures
+    if (SeaCircuitBreakerManager.isCircuitOpen()) {
+      long remainingMs = SeaCircuitBreakerManager.getTimeRemainingMs();
+      LOGGER.info(
+          "SEA circuit breaker is OPEN due to recent 429 rate limit failures. "
+              + "Using THRIFT client. Circuit will close in {} ({}ms)",
+          SeaCircuitBreakerManager.getTimeRemainingFormatted(),
+          remainingMs);
+      return DatabricksClientType.THRIFT;
+    }
     // Check if Arrow is disabled - Thrift is required for inline mode
     if (!Objects.equals(getParameter(DatabricksJdbcUrlParams.ENABLE_ARROW), "1")) {
       return DatabricksClientType.THRIFT;

src/main/java/com/databricks/jdbc/api/impl/DatabricksSession.java

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 import com.databricks.jdbc.common.DatabricksClientType;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.common.DatabricksJdbcUrlParams;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.common.IDatabricksComputeResource;
+import com.databricks.jdbc.common.SeaCircuitBreakerManager;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.common.StatementType;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.dbclient.IDatabricksClient;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.dbclient.IDatabricksMetadataClient;
@@ -17,10 +18,12 @@
 import com.databricks.jdbc.dbclient.impl.sqlexec.DatabricksSdkClient;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.dbclient.impl.thrift.DatabricksThriftServiceClient;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.exception.DatabricksHttpException;
+import com.databricks.jdbc.exception.DatabricksRateLimitException;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.exception.DatabricksSQLException;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.exception.DatabricksTemporaryRedirectException;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.log.JdbcLogger;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.log.JdbcLoggerFactory;
+import com.databricks.jdbc.model.telemetry.enums.DatabricksDriverErrorCode;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.telemetry.TelemetryHelper;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.telemetry.latency.DatabricksMetricsTimedProcessor;
 import com.databricks.sdk.support.ToStringer;
@@ -160,6 +163,41 @@ public void open() throws DatabricksSQLException {
           this.sessionInfo =
               this.databricksClient.createSession(
                   this.computeResource, this.catalog, this.schema, this.sessionConfigs);
+        } catch (DatabricksRateLimitException e) {
+          // Handle 429 rate limit error during SEA session creation
+          // Only handle if using SEA client (not applicable to Thrift)
+          if (connectionContext.getClientType() == DatabricksClientType.SEA) {
+            LOGGER.warn(
+                "SEA session creation failed with HTTP {} (rate limit exceeded) after retries. "
+                    + "Recording failure and falling back to Thrift client for this connection. "
+                    + "Future connections will use Thrift for the next 24 hours.",
+                SeaCircuitBreakerManager.HTTP_TOO_MANY_REQUESTS);
+            // Record the failure to open circuit breaker for future connections
+            SeaCircuitBreakerManager.record429Failure();
+            // Fall back to Thrift for this connection
+            this.connectionContext.setClientType(DatabricksClientType.THRIFT);
+            this.databricksClient =
+                DatabricksMetricsTimedProcessor.createProxy(
+                    new DatabricksThriftServiceClient(connectionContext));
+            this.databricksMetadataClient = null;
+            try {
+              this.sessionInfo =
+                  this.databricksClient.createSession(
+                      this.computeResource, this.catalog, this.schema, this.sessionConfigs);
+            } catch (DatabricksSQLException fallbackException) {
+              throw new DatabricksSQLException(
+                  String.format(
+                      "SEA session creation failed with HTTP %d rate limit, "
+                          + "and Thrift fallback also failed: %s",
+                      SeaCircuitBreakerManager.HTTP_TOO_MANY_REQUESTS,
+                      fallbackException.getMessage()),
+                  fallbackException,
+                  DatabricksDriverErrorCode.CONNECTION_ERROR);
+            }
+          } else {
+            // Re-throw if not from SEA client (shouldn't happen, but defensive)
+            throw e;
+          }
         }
         this.isSessionOpen = true;
       }

src/main/java/com/databricks/jdbc/common/SeaCircuitBreakerManager.java

@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+package com.databricks.jdbc.common;
+
+import com.databricks.jdbc.log.JdbcLogger;
+import com.databricks.jdbc.log.JdbcLoggerFactory;
+import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
+
+/**
+ * Manages a circuit breaker for SEA (SQL Execution API) session creation.
+ *
+ * <p>When SEA session creation fails with HTTP 429 (rate limit exceeded) after exhausting retries,
+ * this circuit breaker opens for 24 hours, forcing all subsequent connections to use Thrift client
+ * instead of SEA.
+ *
+ * <p>This prevents cascading failures and gives the SEA service time to recover from rate limiting.
+ *
+ * <p>Thread-safe: Uses volatile for visibility across threads without synchronization overhead.
+ */
+public class SeaCircuitBreakerManager {
+  private static final JdbcLogger LOGGER =
+      JdbcLoggerFactory.getLogger(SeaCircuitBreakerManager.class);
+
+  /** HTTP status code for rate limiting */
+  public static final int HTTP_TOO_MANY_REQUESTS = HttpStatus.SC_TOO_MANY_REQUESTS; // 429
+
+  /** Duration the circuit breaker stays open after a 429 failure (24 hours in milliseconds) */
+  private static final long CIRCUIT_BREAK_DURATION_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
+
+  /**
+   * Timestamp of the last 429 failure during SEA session creation. -1 indicates no failure has
+   * occurred. Volatile ensures visibility across threads.
+   */
+  private static volatile long last429FailureTimestamp = -1;
+
+  /** Private constructor to prevent instantiation */
+  private SeaCircuitBreakerManager() {}
+
+  /**
+   * Records a 429 failure during SEA session creation, opening the circuit breaker for 24 hours.
+   *
+   * <p>This should be called only when session creation (not statement execution) fails with 429
+   * after all retries have been exhausted.
+   *
+   * <p>Thread-safe via volatile write semantics.
+   */
+  public static void record429Failure() {
+    long currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
+    last429FailureTimestamp = currentTime;
+    LOGGER.warn(
+        "SEA circuit breaker OPENED due to 429 rate limit failure. "
+            + "Will use Thrift client for the next 24 hours. Timestamp: {}",
+        currentTime);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Checks if the circuit breaker is currently open (within 24 hours of last 429 failure).
+   *
+   * @return true if the circuit is open and connections should bypass SEA and use Thrift directly,
+   *     false otherwise
+   */
+  public static boolean isCircuitOpen() {
+    long lastFailure = last429FailureTimestamp;
+    if (lastFailure == -1) {
+      return false; // Never failed
+    }
+    long elapsed = System.currentTimeMillis() - lastFailure;
+    boolean isOpen = elapsed < CIRCUIT_BREAK_DURATION_MS;
+
+    if (!isOpen) {
+      // Circuit just closed - log it once
+      LOGGER.trace("SEA circuit breaker CLOSED after 24 hours. Will check feature flag again.");
+    }
+
+    return isOpen;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Gets the time remaining (in milliseconds) until the circuit breaker closes.
+   *
+   * @return milliseconds until circuit closes, or 0 if circuit is closed or never opened
+   */
+  public static long getTimeRemainingMs() {
+    long lastFailure = last429FailureTimestamp;
+    if (lastFailure == -1) {
+      return 0;
+    }
+    long elapsed = System.currentTimeMillis() - lastFailure;
+    if (elapsed >= CIRCUIT_BREAK_DURATION_MS) {
+      return 0;
+    }
+    return CIRCUIT_BREAK_DURATION_MS - elapsed;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Gets the time remaining until circuit closes, formatted as human-readable string.
+   *
+   * @return formatted time remaining (e.g., "23 hours 45 minutes"), or "closed" if not open
+   */
+  public static String getTimeRemainingFormatted() {
+    long remainingMs = getTimeRemainingMs();
+    if (remainingMs == 0) {
+      return "closed";
+    }
+    long hours = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(remainingMs);
+    long minutes = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(remainingMs) % 60;
+    return String.format("%d hours %d minutes", hours, minutes);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Resets the circuit breaker state. FOR TESTING PURPOSES ONLY.
+   *
+   * <p>This method should only be called from test code to reset state between tests.
+   */
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  public static void reset() {
+    last429FailureTimestamp = -1;
+    LOGGER.debug("SEA circuit breaker has been reset (test only)");
+  }
+}

src/main/java/com/databricks/jdbc/dbclient/impl/sqlexec/DatabricksSdkClient.java

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 import java.util.stream.Stream;
 import javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException;
+import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
 
 /** Implementation of IDatabricksClient interface using Databricks Java SDK. */
 public class DatabricksSdkClient implements IDatabricksClient {
@@ -124,6 +125,17 @@ public ImmutableSessionInfo createSession(
       if (e.getStatusCode() == TEMPORARY_REDIRECT_STATUS_CODE) {
         throw new DatabricksTemporaryRedirectException(TEMPORARY_REDIRECT_EXCEPTION);
       }
+      if (e.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_TOO_MANY_REQUESTS) {
+        String errorMessage =
+            String.format(
+                "createSession failed with HTTP %d (rate limit exceeded) after retries. "
+                    + "Warehouse id: %s, Error: %s",
+                HttpStatus.SC_TOO_MANY_REQUESTS,
+                ((Warehouse) warehouse).getWarehouseId(),
+                e.getMessage());
+        LOGGER.warn(errorMessage, e);
+        throw new DatabricksRateLimitException(errorMessage, e, HttpStatus.SC_TOO_MANY_REQUESTS);
+      }
       String errorReason = buildErrorMessage(e);
       throw new DatabricksSQLException(errorReason, e, DatabricksDriverErrorCode.CONNECTION_ERROR);
     } catch (IOException e) {

src/main/java/com/databricks/jdbc/exception/DatabricksRateLimitException.java

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+package com.databricks.jdbc.exception;
+
+import com.databricks.jdbc.model.telemetry.enums.DatabricksDriverErrorCode;
+import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
+
+/**
+ * Exception thrown when a Databricks API call fails due to rate limiting (HTTP 429).
+ *
+ * <p>This exception is used to distinguish rate limit errors from other HTTP errors, enabling
+ * special handling such as circuit breaker activation for session creation failures.
+ */
+public class DatabricksRateLimitException extends DatabricksSQLException {
+
+  /** HTTP status code for rate limiting */
+  public static final int HTTP_TOO_MANY_REQUESTS = HttpStatus.SC_TOO_MANY_REQUESTS; // 429
+
+  private final int statusCode;
+
+  /**
+   * Constructs a new rate limit exception.
+   *
+   * @param message the detail message
+   * @param statusCode the HTTP status code (should be 429)
+   */
+  public DatabricksRateLimitException(String message, int statusCode) {
+    super(message, DatabricksDriverErrorCode.RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED);
+    this.statusCode = statusCode;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Constructs a new rate limit exception with a cause.
+   *
+   * @param message the detail message
+   * @param cause the cause of this exception
+   * @param statusCode the HTTP status code (should be 429)
+   */
+  public DatabricksRateLimitException(String message, Throwable cause, int statusCode) {
+    super(message, cause, DatabricksDriverErrorCode.RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED);
+    this.statusCode = statusCode;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Gets the HTTP status code.
+   *
+   * @return the status code
+   */
+  public int getStatusCode() {
+    return statusCode;
+  }
+}

src/main/java/com/databricks/jdbc/model/telemetry/enums/DatabricksDriverErrorCode.java

@@ -43,5 +43,6 @@ public enum DatabricksDriverErrorCode {
   CHUNK_READY_ERROR,
   TRANSACTION_SET_AUTOCOMMIT_ERROR,
   TRANSACTION_COMMIT_ERROR,
-  TRANSACTION_ROLLBACK_ERROR
+  TRANSACTION_ROLLBACK_ERROR,
+  RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED
 }