Scaling Databases On The Cloud
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Scaling Databases On The Cloud
- 1. Scaling databases on the cloud D e e p a k A n u p a l l i S e r v e r A r c h i t e c t C L O U D C O M P U T I N G - C O M I N G O F A G E A T R E A T I S E O N R E A L - L I F E U S E C A S E S Copyright (c) 2009, Pramati Technologies Private Limited. Imaginea is a Pramati business. All trade names and trade marks are owned by their respective owners 11/4/2009 1
- 2. We are • An emerging leader in product development services offering specialized services in Product Engineering, Interaction design and Test engineering. • US Headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA; India development centers in Hyderabad and Chennai • A 250+ strong and growing team • A business unit of Pramati technologies • Rich Experience in SaaS Engineering, Performance engineering, Cloud Computing, Web2.0, sf.com integrations and managing Amazon EC2 Deployment • Track record of delivering significant customer satisfaction
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- 4. Application requirements • High reliability • Low Latency • Dynamic Scalability – Millions of Users – Volumes of data • Across the tiers – Web – Application – Data
- 5. Our biggest challenge • DB Perf bound by Disk I/O • Vertical scaling is an option – Ex: PlentyOfFish.com: 512GB RAM, 32CPUs – Expensive – Only possible to an extent on cloud servers
- 6. Vertical Scaling: Limitations • Not everything will fit in memory • Lot of reads ~ Lot of page faults + disk seeks • RAID 6 or RAID 10 disks • 200MBps-1GBps is the max speed Think Horizontal !
- 7. Replication • Master-slave replication (MySQL Writes or Oracle RAC) • Writes on one Master Master • Reads on many Slaves • Application aware • Works in read mostly scenario Writes • Adds Slave lag Slave Slave Slave Reads
- 8. Sharding • Partition data across masters • Writes and Reads are distributed Shard Logic • Application is modified accordingly • Also use replication with fewer slaves to minimize slave lag Master Master Master • Choose a partitioning strategy that uniformly distributes data Slave Slave Slave
- 9. Sharding Schemes • Vertical shard_id = getShard(“profile”) • Profile DB, friend DB shard_id = getShard(profileID) • Not uniform Select * from Profile where id = ? • Range based • ID range, Location or Date based • Not uniform Corporate Corporate • Key or Hash based • ID hash • Fixed masters Tweets Posts • Directory • Mapping of ID to Shard • Single point of failure
- 10. Sharding Complexities • No Joins • De-normalize the data • Data Integrity • Application should enforce integrity • Re-shard • Changing the sharding scheme requires re-partitioning the entire data
- 11. De-normalization • Recent 10 messages to a recipient • Schema Messages Recipients • Messages Table stores message info timestamp • Recipients Table stores • Requires Join on Messages & Recipients table • De-normalize Messages Recipients • Store timestamp in Recipients table as timestamp timestamp well
- 12. Relationships • When data is partitioned into shards, foreign keys become obsolete • De-normalization avoids having relationships Application • If data can’t be de-normalized further, use memcached • But, this requires change in SQL queries MemCached Shard Shard Shard 1 2 3
- 13. Cloud Databases/Data stores • Amazon SimpleDB • Google BigTable • Apache HBase • Facebook/Apache Hive • CouchDB • Cassandra • Many more…
- 14. Amazon SimpleDB • Schema-less distributed key-value store • Highly reliable and scalable • Automatic indexing of columns • Querying with SQL-like syntax • Supports multiple values for key/attribute • Value for Money
- 15. Problems Addressed • High Availability – multiple nodes forming a ring • Partitioning – Consistent hashing • Replication – Replicated to multiple nodes • Eventual Consistency – Asynchronous replication of data using vector clocks
- 16. SimpleDB adoption • No Joins • No transactional support • String is the only data type • No aggregator functions • No full-text searches • Limits enforced on size of results, predicates, data etc.
- 17. Google BigTable • Distributed Key-value store • Runs on top of Google File System (GFS) • Timestamp versioned data • Automatic indexing of columns
- 18. BigTable adoption • Google Search, Maps, Earth, Orkut, Youtube, Reader, etc. • Google App Engine(GAE) uses BigTable as its datastore • DataNucleus supports JPA for BigTable • Limited transaction support • Eventual consistency
- 19. Hive • Hive is a data warehouse • Runs on top of Hadoop Distributed File system (HDFS) • Supports SQL-like syntax • User defined types and functions • Extensibility with Map-Reduce
- 20. Hive adoption • Facebook uses Hive to analyze historical data of users and content • Doesn’t support indexing of columns • Brute force mechanism to compute analytics
- 21. CouchDB • CouchDB is a document-oriented datastore • Schema-free • Accessible through RESTful JSON API • Distributed with incremental replication • Querying through Javascript
- 22. Is there a solution for all? • Different data-stores address different problem spaces • Identify what best suites your app
- 23. Thank You deepak@pramati.com http://hysea.in
- 24. C L O U D C O M P U T I N G - C O M I N G O F A G E A T R E A T I S E O N R E A L - L I F E U S E C A S E S Scaling databases on the cloud Copyright © 2009, Imaginea Inc. Not to be distributed or communicated without permission. 11/4/2009 24