![Tribal
Crossing:
Represen-ng
Game
Data
in
Couchbase
Player
Object
Key: 'Player1' Plant
Object
Array Key: 'Plant201'
(
[Id] => 1 Array
[Name] => Shawn (
) [Id] => 201
[Player_Id] => 1
[Name] => Starflower
PlayerPlant
List
)
Key: 'Player1_PlantList'
Array
(
[0] => 201
[1] => 202
[2] => 204
)
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![Tribal
Crossing:
Accessing
Game
Data
in
Couchbase
Get
all
plants
belong
to
a
given
player
Request: GET /player/1/farm
$plant_ids = couchbase->get('Player1_PlantList');
$response = array();
foreach ($plant_ids as $plant_id)
{
$plant = couchbase->get('Plant' . $plant_id);
$response[] = $plant;
}
echo json_encode($response);
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![Tribal
Crossing:
Modifying
Game
Data
in
Couchbase
Give
a
player
a
new
plant
// Create the new plant
$new_plant = array (
'id' => 100,
'name' => 'Mushroom'
);
$couchbase->set('Plant100', $new_plant);
// Update the player plant list
$plant_ids = $couchbase->get('Player1_PlantList');
$plant_ids[] = $new_plant['id'];
$couchbase->set('Player1_PlantList', $plant_ids);
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- 1. 1
- 2. USING COUCHBASE FOR SOCIAL GAME SCALING AND SPEED Chiyoung Seo, Couchbase Inc. Matt Ingenthron, Couchbase Inc. 2
- 3. Agenda • Introduc-on • What is Couchbase Server? – Simple, Fast, Elas-c – Technology Overview (Architecture, data flow, rebalancing) • Tribal Crossing Inc: Animal Party – Challenges before Couchbase • Original Architecture – Why Couchbase? • Simplicity • Performance • Flexibility – Deploying Couchbase • New Architecture • EC2 • Data Model • Accessing data in Couchbase • Product Roadmap • Q&A 3
- 4. Couchbase Inc. • Membase and CouchOne have merged to form Couchbase Inc. (headquartered in Silicon Valley) • Team – Brings together the creators and core contributors of Memcached, Membase and CouchDB technologies – Doubles technical team size, accelerates roadmaps by over a year • Products – Couchbase Server (Formerly Membase) – Couchbase Single Server – Mobile Couchbase (iPhone and Android) • Technology – Most mature, reliable and widely deployed NoSQL technologies – Fully featured, open source document datastore – First complete, end-‐to-‐end NoSQL database product 4
- 5. Modern Interactive Web Application Architecture Application Scales Out Just add more commodity web servers www.facebook.com/animalparty Load Balancer Web Servers Rela-onal Database Scales Up Get a bigger, more complex server Database -‐ Expensive and disrup-ve sharding -‐ Doesn’t perform at Web Scale 5
- 6. Couchbase Server is a distributed database Couchbase Web Console Applica-on user Web applica-on server Couchbase Servers 6
- 7. Couchbase data layer scales like application logic tier Data layer now scales with linear cost and constant performance. Application Scales Out www.facebook.com/animalparty Just add more commodity web servers Load Balancer Web Servers Couchbase Servers Database Scales Out Just add more commodity data servers Horizontally scalable, schema-‐less, auto-‐sharding, high-‐performance at Web Scale Scaling out flattens the cost and performance curves. 7
- 8. Couchbase Server is Simple, Fast, Elas-c • Five minutes or less to a working cluster – Downloads for Windows, Linux and OSX – Start with a single node – One bucon press joins nodes to a cluster • Easy to develop against – Just SET and GET – no schema required – Drop it in. 10,000+ exis-ng applica-ons already “speak Couchbase” (via memcached) – Prac-cally every language and applica-on framework is supported, out of the box • Easy to manage – One-‐click failover and cluster rebalancing – Graphical and programma-c interfaces – Configurable aler-ng 8
- 9. Couchbase Server is Simple, Fast, Elas-c • Predictable – “Never keep an applica-on wai-ng” – Quasi-‐determinis-c latency and throughput • Low latency – Built-‐in Memcached technology – Auto-‐migra-on of hot data to lowest latency storage technology (RAM, SSD, Disk) – Selectable write behavior – asynchronous, synchronous (on replica-on, persistence) • High throughput – Mul--‐threaded – Low lock conten-on – Asynchronous wherever possible – Automa-c write de-‐duplica-on 9
- 10. Couchbase Server is Simple, Fast, Elas-c • Zero-‐down-me elas-city Couchbase Web Console – Spread I/O and data across commodity servers (or VMs) – Consistent performance with linear cost – Dynamic rebalancing of a live cluster • All nodes are created equal – No special case nodes – Clone to grow • Extensible – Change feeds – Real-‐-me map-‐reduce – RESTful interface for management 10
- 11. Proven at Small, and Extra Large Scale • Leading cloud service (PAAS) • Social game leader – FarmVille, provider Mafia Wars, Empires and Allies, • Over 150,000 hosted applications Café World, FishVille • Couchbase Server serving over • Over 230 million monthly users 6,200 Heroku customers • Couchbase Server is the primary database behind key Zynga properties 11
- 12. Customers and Partners Customers (par-al lis-ng) Partners 12
- 13. Couchbase Server Architecture 11211 11210 memcapable 1.0 memcapable 2.0 moxi REST management API/Web UI vBucket state and replica-on manager Global singleton supervisor Rebalance orchestrator Configura-on manager memcached Node health monitor Process monitor protocol listener/sender Heartbeat Data Manager Cluster Manager engine interface Couchbase Storage Engine hcp on each node one per cluster Erlang/OTP HTTP erlang port mapper distributed erlang 8091 4369 21100 – 21199 13
- 14. Couchbase Server Architecture 11211 11210 memcapable 1.0 memcapable 2.0 moxi vBucket state and replica-on manager REST management API/Web UI Global singleton supervisor Rebalance orchestrator Configura-on manager memcached Node health monitor Process monitor protocol listener/sender Heartbeat engine interface Couchbase Storage Engine hcp on each node one per cluster Erlang/OTP HTTP erlang port mapper distributed erlang 8091 4369 21100 – 21199 14
- 15. Couchbase “write” Data Flow – applica-on view User ac-on results in the need to change the VALUE of KEY 1 Applica-on updates key’s VALUE, 2 performs SET opera-on 4 Couchbase client hashes KEY, iden-fies 3 KEY’s master server SET request sent over network to master server 5 Couchbase replicates KEY-‐VALUE pair, caches it in memory and stores it to disk 15
- 16. Couchbase Data Flow – under the hood SET request arrives at SET acknowledgement KEY’s master server 1 3 returned to applica-on Listener-‐Sender 2 2 Listener-‐Sender Listener-‐Sender RAM* RAM* RAM* Couchbase storage engine membase storage engine membase storage engine 2 SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD Disk Disk Disk 4 Disk Disk Disk Disk Disk Disk Replica Server 1 for KEY Master server for KEY Replica Server 2 for KEY 16
- 17. Elas-city -‐ Rebalancing Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 Before vBucket 1 vBucket 7 vBucket 2 vBucket 8 • Adding Node 3 vBucket 3 vBucket 9 • Node 3 is in pending state vBucket 4 vBucket 10 Pending state • Clients talk to Node 1,2 only vBucket 5 vBucket 11 vBucket 6 vBucket 12 vBucket 1 vBucket 7 During vBucket 2 vBucket 8 vBucket 3 vBucket 9 • Rebalancing orchestrator recalculates Rebalancing vBucket 4 vBucket 10 the vBucket map (including replicas) vBucket 5 vBucket 11 • Migrate vBuckets to the new server vBucket 6 vBucket 12 • Finalize migra-on vBucket migrator vBucket migrator Client AOer vBucket 1 vBucket 7 vBucket 5 • Node 3 is balanced vBucket 2 vBucket 8 vBucket 6 • Clients are reconfigured to talk to vBucket 3 vBucket 9 vBucket 11 Node 3 vBucket 4 vBucket 10 vBucket 12 17
- 18. Data buckets are secure Couchbase “slices” Applica-on user Web applica-on server Bucket 1 Bucket 2 Aggregate Cluster Memory and Disk Capacity Couchbase data servers In the data center On the administrator console 18
- 19. Couchbase and Hadoop Integra-on • Support large-‐scale analy-cs on applica-on data by streaming data from Couchbase to Hadoop – Real-‐-me integra-on using Flume – Batch integra-on using Sqoop • Examples – Various game sta-s-cs (e.g., monthly / daily / hourly rankings) – Analyze game pacerns from users to enhance various game metrics Flume memcached TAP protocol listener/sender Sqoop engine interface Couchbase Storage Engine 19
- 20. Agenda • Introduc-on • What is Couchbase Server? – Simple, Fast, Elas-c – Technology Overview (Architecture, data flow, rebalancing) • Tribal Crossing Inc: Animal Party – Challenges before Couchbase • Original Architecture – Why Couchbase? • Simplicity • Performance • Flexibility – Deploying Couchbase • New Architecture • EC2 • Data Model • Accessing data in Couchbase • Product Roadmap • Q&A 20
- 21. Tribal Crossing: Challenges Common steps on scaling up database: ● Tune queries (indexing, explain query) ● Denormaliza-on ● Cache data (APC / Memcache) ● Tune MySQL configura-on ● Replica-on (read slaves) Where do we go from here to prepare for the scale of a successful social game? 21
- 22. Tribal Crossing: Challenges ● Write-‐heavy requests – Caching does not help – MySQL / InnoDB limita-on (Percona) ● Need to scale dras-cally over night – My Polls – 100 to 1m users over a weekend ● Small team, no dedicated sysadmin – Focus on what we do best – making games ● Keeping cost down 22
- 23. Tribal Crossing: “Old” Architecture and Op-ons ● MySQL with master-‐to-‐master replica-on and sharding – Complex to setup, high administra-on cost – Requires applica-on level changes ● Cassandra – High write, but low read throughput – Live cluster reconfigura-on and rebalance is quite complicated – Eventual consistency gives too much burden to applica-on developers ● MongoDB – High read/write, but unpredictable latency – Live cluster rebalance for exis-ng nodes only – Eventual consistency with slave nodes 23
- 24. Tribal Crossing: Why Couchbase Server? ● SPEED, SPEED, SPEED ● Immediate consistency ● Interface is dead simple to use – We are already using Memcache ● Low sysadmin overhead ● Schema-‐less data store ● Used and Proven by big guys like Zynga ● … and lastly, because Tribal CAN – Bigger firms with legacy code base = hard to adapt – Small team = ability to get on the cuung edge 24
- 25. Tribal Crossing: New Challenges With Couchbase ● But, there are some different challenges in using Couchbase (currently 1.7) to handle the game data: – No easy way to query data – No transac-on / rollback ➔ Couchbase Server 2.0 resolves them by using CouchDB as the underlying database engine ● Can this work for an online game? – Break out of the old ORM / rela-onal paradigm! – We are not handling bank transac-ons 25
- 26. Tribal Crossing: Deploying Couchbase in EC2 Web Server Apache ● Basic produc-on Client-side Moxi environment setup ● Dev/Stage environment – feel free to install Cluster Mgmt. Requests Couchbase on your web DNS Entry server Couchbase … Couchbase Couchbase Cluster 26
- 27. Tribal Crossing: Deploying Couchbase in EC2 Web Server ● Amazon Linux AMI, Apache 64-‐bit, EBS backed instance Client-side Moxi ● Setup swap space Cluster Mgmt. Requests ● Install Couchbase’s Membase Server 1.7 DNS Entry ● Access web console http://<hostname>:8091 ● Start the new cluster with a … Couchbase single node Couchbase ● Add the other nodes to the Couchbase Cluster cluster and rebalance 27
- 28. Tribal Crossing: Deploying Couchbase in EC2 Web Server Apache Moxi figures out which node in the cluster holds data for a given key. Client-side Moxi ● On each web server, install Moxi Cluster Mgmt. Requests proxy ● Start Moxi by poin-ng it to the DNS Entry DNS entry you created ● Web apps connect to Moxi that is running locally memcache->addServer(‘localhost’, 11211); Couchbase … Couchbase Couchbase Cluster 28
- 29. Tribal Crossing: Represen-ng Game Data in Couchbase Use case -‐ simple farming game: ● A player can have a variety of plants on their farm. ● A player can add or remove plants from their farm. ● A Player can see what plants are on another player's farm. 29
- 30. Tribal Crossing: Represen-ng Game Data in Couchbase RepresenUng Objects ● Simply treat an object as an associa-ve array ● Determine the key for an object using the class name (or type) of the object and an unique ID RepresenUng Object Lists ● Denormaliza-on ● Save a comma separated list or an array of object IDs 30
- 31. Tribal Crossing: Represen-ng Game Data in Couchbase Player Object Key: 'Player1' Plant Object Array Key: 'Plant201' ( [Id] => 1 Array [Name] => Shawn ( ) [Id] => 201 [Player_Id] => 1 [Name] => Starflower PlayerPlant List ) Key: 'Player1_PlantList' Array ( [0] => 201 [1] => 202 [2] => 204 ) 31
- 32. Tribal Crossing: Schema-‐less Game Data ● No need to “ALTER TABLE” ● Add new “fields” all objects at any -me – Specify default value for missing fields – Increased development speed ● Using JSON for data objects though, owing to the ability to query on arbitrary fields in Couchbase 2.0 32
- 33. Tribal Crossing: Accessing Game Data in Couchbase Get all plants belong to a given player Request: GET /player/1/farm $plant_ids = couchbase->get('Player1_PlantList'); $response = array(); foreach ($plant_ids as $plant_id) { $plant = couchbase->get('Plant' . $plant_id); $response[] = $plant; } echo json_encode($response); 33
- 34. Tribal Crossing: Modifying Game Data in Couchbase Give a player a new plant // Create the new plant $new_plant = array ( 'id' => 100, 'name' => 'Mushroom' ); $couchbase->set('Plant100', $new_plant); // Update the player plant list $plant_ids = $couchbase->get('Player1_PlantList'); $plant_ids[] = $new_plant['id']; $couchbase->set('Player1_PlantList', $plant_ids); 34
- 35. Tribal Crossing: Concurrency Concurrency issue can occur when mul-ple requests are working with the same piece of data. Solu-on: ● CAS (check-‐and-‐set) – Client can know if someone else has modified the data while you are trying to update – Implement op-mis-c concurrency control ● Locking (try/wait cycle) – GETL (get with lock + -meout) opera-ons – Pessimis-c concurrency control 35
- 36. Tribal Crossing: Data Rela-onship ● Record object rela-onships both ways – Example: Plots and Plants ● Plot object stores id of the plant that it hosts ● Plant object stores id of the plot that it grows on – Resolu-on in case of mismatch ● Don't sweat the extra calls to load data in a one-‐to-‐ many rela-onship – Use mul3Get – We can s-ll cache aggregated results in a Memcache bucket if needed 36
- 37. Tribal Crossing: Migra-ng to Couchbase Servers First migrated large or slow performing tables and frequently updated fields from MySQL to Couchbase Web Server Apache + PHP Client-‐side Moxi MySQL memcached TAP protocol listener/sender engine interface Repor-ng TAP Client Applica-ons Couchbase Storage Engine 37
- 38. Tribal Crossing: Deployment 38
- 39. Tribal Crossing: Deployment 39
- 40. Tribal Crossing: Conclusion • Significantly reduced the cost incurred by scaling up database servers and managing them. • Achieved significant improvements in various performance metrics (e.g., read, write, latency, etc.) • Allowed them to focus more on game development and op-mizing key metrics • Plan to use real-‐-me MapReduce, querying, and indexing abili-es provided by the upcoming Elas-c Couchbase 2.0 40
- 41. Agenda • Introduc-on • What is Couchbase Server? – Simple, Fast, Elas-c – Technology Overview (Architecture, data flow, rebalancing) • Tribal Crossing Inc: Animal Party – Challenges before Couchbase • Original Architecture – Why Couchbase? • Simplicity • Performance • Flexibility – Deploying Couchbase • New Architecture • EC2 • Data Model • Accessing data in Couchbase • Product Roadmap • Q&A 41
- 42. Product Roadmap: Couchbase Server 2.0 • Mobile to cloud data synchroniza-on • Cross data center replica-on US West Coast Data Center US East Coast Data Center Couchbase Couchbase Server CouchSync Server CouchSync CouchSync Couchbase Single Server Couchbase Single Server CouchSync CouchSync … … … … … … 42
- 43. Product Roadmap: Couchbase Server 2.0 • Replace Sqlite-‐based storage engine with CouchDB • Support indexing and querying on values • Integrate real-‐-me MapReduce into Couchbase server • SDK for Couchbase server Membase Server 1.7 CouchDB 1.1 Couchbase Server 2.0 The world’s leading caching The most reliable and full-‐ The fastest, most complete and and clustering technology featured document database most reliable database on the planet 43
- 44. Couchbase Product Download • Community Edi-on – Open source build – Free forum support • Enterprise Edi-on – Free for non-‐produc-on use – Cer-fied, QA tested version of open source – Case tracking and guaranteed SLA for produc-on environments • Partner in Korea – N2M Inc. (hcp://www.n2m.co.kr) 44
- 45. Q&A Matt Ingenthron, Couchbase Inc. (matt@couchbase.com, @ingenthr) Chiyoung Seo, Couchbase Inc. (chiyoung@couchbase.com, @chiyoungseo) 45