MySQL as a Document Store

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Introducing the
MySQL Document Store
Mark Swarbrick
Principle Presales Consultant UK&I
mark.swarbrick@oracle.com

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Today’s Agenda
RelaOonal Databases, Document Databases and MySQL
MySQL JSON Support
Document Use Cases
The X DevAPI
Geng it all working together
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RelaOonal Databases
•  Data Integrity
– NormalizaOon
– Constraints (foreign keys etc)
•  Atomicity, Consistency, IsolaOon, Durability - ACID
– TransacOons
•  SQL
– Powerful, OpOmizable Query Language
– Declare what you want and the DB will find out the most efficient way to get it to
you
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Plus…
•  MySQL has been around since 1995
•  Ubiquitous
•  Pregy much a standard
•  Scalable
•  When there are issues, they are known and understood
•  Large body of knowledge, from small to BIG deployments

Document Databases
•  Schemaless
– no schema design, normalizaOon, foreign keys, constraints, data types etc
– faster iniOal development
•  Flexible data structures
– nested arrays and objects
– some data is simply naturally unstructured or cannot be modeled eﬃciently in the
relaOonal model (hierarchies, product DB etc)
– persist objects without ORMs

Document Databases (Cont.)
•  JSON
– Closer to the frontend
– "naOve" in JavaScript
– Node.js and full stack JavaScript
•  Easy to learn, easy to use

RelaOonal vs Document Databases

Why not both?

MySQL JSON Support
Document Use Cases
The X DevAPI
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MySQL 5.7: JSON Support
•  NaOve JSON datatype
•  Store JSON values (objects, arrays and simple values) in MySQL tables
•  Binary JSON storage format
•  Conversion from "naOve" SQL types to and from JSON values
•  JSON ManipulaOon funcOons
– Extract contents (JSON_EXTRACT, JSON_KEYS etc)
– Inspect contents (JSON_CONTAINS etc)
– Modify contents (JSON_SET, JSON_INSERT, JSON_REMOVE etc)
– Create arrays and objects (JSON_ARRAY, JSON_OBJECT)
– Search objects (JSON_SEARCH)

MySQL 5.7: JSON Support (cont.)
•  Inline SQL JSON path expressions
SELECT doc->'$.object.array[0].item' FROM some_table
•  Boolean operators (compare JSON values etc)
– foo = doc->'$.ﬁeld'

MySQL 5.7: JSON Support (cont.)
•  Plus…
•  Generated/Virtual Columns
– Index JSON data
– Foreign keys to JSON data
– SQL views for JSON data

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Document Use Cases
The X DevAPI

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ExtracOng JSON from a RelaOonal DB
Rela+onal In, Rela+onal + Document Out
•  Data stored in relaOonal tables, but frontend uses JSON
•  JSON directly maps to naOve data structures in many languages
– Oxen easier for applicaOon code to use
– JavaScript, Python, Ruby etc
– In browser JavaScript

ExtracOng JSON from a RelaOonal DB
Rela+onal In, Rela+onal + Document Out
•  SQL FuncOons to construct JSON
– JSON_OBJECT(), JSON_ARRAY()
•  Ex.:
SELECT JSON_OBJECT('cust_id', id, 'name', name, 'email', email) FROM customer;
CREATE VIEW customer_json AS
SELECT JSON_OBJECT('cust_id', id, 'name', name, 'email', email) as doc FROM
customer;
SELECT * FROM customer_json;
•  Updates and inserts sOll happen through the table columns


Using MySQL as a JSON Document Container
Document In, Rela+onal + Document Out
•  Virtually Schemaless
– Unstructured data
– No clear, fixed structure for the data… records can have different fields
– Oxen data that is not involved in business rules
– Examples: "product_info", "properOes", "opOons" etc
•  Data does not map cleanly into a relaOonal model (arrays, hierarchical data
etc)
•  Prototyping

MySQL as a JSON Document Container
Example: "product_info" table
product_id a<ribute value
9 size M
9 color red
9 fabric cogon
11 ﬂavour strawberry
12 capacity 128GB
12 speed class class 10
13 connecOvity Wi-Fi
13 storage 64GB
13 screen size 8.9"
13 resoluOon 2560 x 1600 (339 ppi)
13 bagery life 12 hours
{
"product_id": 9,
"size" : "M",
"color": "red",
"fabric": "cogon"
},
{
"product_id": 11,
"ﬂavour": "strawberry"
},
{
"product_id": 12,
"capacity": "128GB",
"speed class": "class 10"
},
{

MySQL as a JSON Document Container
Document In, Rela+onal + Document Out
•  An ordinary MySQL table with a single JSON data column
•  Generated columns allow SQL engine to look inside the JSON data
– Virtual columns
– Primary Keys
– Indexes
– Foreign Keys
•  Writes on the JSON column
•  Reads primarily from the JSON columns

Hybrid RelaOonal and JSON
Rela+onal + Document In, Rela+onal + Document Out
•  Database is mostly relaOonal
•  Some parts of the database are unstructured or does not model cleanly as
relaOonal
•  JSON columns in relaOonal tables
•  Queries can mix and match JSON and column data
•  EvoluOon path for Document based applicaOons

MySQL JSON Support
Document Use Cases
The X DevAPI

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Document OperaOons via SQL
•  Powerful
•  Allows complex queries
•  But… sOll diﬃcult to use

Document OperaOons via SQL
CREATE TABLE product (
id VARCHAR(32) GENERATED ALWAYS AS (JSON_EXTRACT(doc, '$.id')) STORED,
doc JSON
);
INSERT INTO product VALUES (1, '{…}');
SELECT * FROM product WHERE JSON_EXTRACT(doc, '$.field') = value;
etc.

The X DevAPI
•  AbstracOon over SQL
•  Focused on 4 basic CRUD operaOons (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
•  Fluent, NaOve Language API
•  No knowledge of SQL needed
•  X Protocol
– CRUD requests encoded at protocol level
– Request details "visible" (vs "opaque" SQL strings)

CollecOon and Schema OperaOons
•  Get a handle to a Schema
mydb = session.getSchema("mydb");

•  Create a CollecOon
mydb.createCollection("products");
•  Get a (local) reference to a CollecOon
products = mydb.getCollection("products");

Add Document
products.add({"name":"bananas", "color":"yellow"}).execute();

Find Documents
products.find("color = 'yellow'").sort(["name"]).execute();

Modify Documents
products.modify("product_id = 123").set("color", "red").execute();

Remove Documents
products.remove("product_id = 123").execute();

X DevAPI Sessions
•  X Session
– Stateless
– CRUD only, no SQL
– Abstracts the connecOon
•  Node Session
– Direct connecOon to a database node
– Allows CRUD and SQL

Other OperaOons on CollecOons
•  Create an Index
db.post.createIndex("email").ﬁeld("author.email", "text(30)", false)

CRUD OperaOons – NoSQL/Document and SQL/RelaOonal
Opera+on Document Rela+onal
Create CollecOon.add() Table.insert()
Read CollecOon.ﬁnd() Table.select()
Update CollecOon.modify() Table.update()
Delete CollecOon.remove() Table.delete()
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MySQL JSON Support
Document Use Cases
The X DevAPI

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5.7.12 Development Preview Release
•  MySQL 5.7.12 with Document Store plugin
•  MySQL Shell 1.0.3
•  Connector/J 7.0
•  Connector/Net 7.0
•  Connector/Node.js 1.0

MySQL 5.7, Connectors, Drivers, and Protocols
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MySQL
Plugins
X Protocol Plugin Memcached Plugin
Core
MySQL Connectors and Drivers
X Protocol Std Protocol
Memcached
driver
X Protocol
33060
Std Protocol
3306
SQL API CRUD and SQL APIs
Memcache
Protocol
X and Std
Protocols
MySQL
Shell

MySQL Shell

MySQL Plugin for VisualStudio

Resources
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