Databases in the hosted cloud
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The document discusses the options and considerations for using databases as a service (DBaaS), focusing on MySQL offerings from various cloud providers like AWS, Rackspace, and Google Cloud. It covers deployment methods, cost implications, service level agreements, and data management features, highlighting the benefits of rapid deployment and scalability. Additionally, it provides insights into MySQL versions available and the management of backups, monitoring, and high availability across different platforms.
![Costs:AWS II
• Medium instances (3.75GB) useful for
testing ($1,577/yr [2014] vs $2,411/yr
[2013])
• Large instance (7.5GB) production ready
($3,241/yr vs $4,777/yr [2013])
• m3.2XL (30GB, 8vCPUs) ($12,964/yr)
• XL instance (15GB, 8ECUs) ($9,555/yr)
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Databases in the hosted cloud
- 1. Databases in the Hosted Cloud Colin Charles, MariaDB Corporation Ab [email protected] | [email protected] http://mariadb.com/ | http://mariadb.org/ http://bytebot.net/blog/ | @bytebot on Twitter Percona Live Europe,Amsterdam, Netherlands 22 September 2015 1
- 2. whoami • Work on MariaDB at MariaDB Corporation (SkySQL Ab) • Merged with Monty Program Ab, makers of MariaDB • Formerly MySQL AB (exit: Sun Microsystems) • Past lives include Fedora Project (FESCO), OpenOffice.org • Recipient of the MySQL Community Contributor of theYear Award 2014 2
- 3. Agenda • MySQL as a service offering (DBaaS) • Choices • Considerations • MySQL versions & access • Costs • Deeper into RDS • Should you run this on EC2 or an equivalent? • Conclusion 3
- 4. MySQL as a service • Database as a Service (DBaaS) • MySQL available on-demand, without any installation/configuration of hardware/ software • Pay-per-usage based • Provider maintains MySQL, you don’t maintain, upgrade, or administer the database 4
- 5. New way of deployment • Enter a credit card number • call API (or use the GUI) ec2-run-instances ami- xxx -k ${EC2_KEYPAIR} -t m1.large nova boot --image centos6-x86_64 --flavor m1.large db1 5 credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/68751915@N05/6280507539/
- 6. Why DBaaS? • “Couldn’t we just have a few more servers to handle the traffic spike during the elections?” • Don’t have a lot of DBAs, optimise for operational ease • Rapid deployment & scale-out 6
- 7. Your choices today • Amazon Web Services Relational Database Service (RDS) • Rackspace Cloud Databases • Google Cloud SQL 7
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- 9. There are more • Jelastic - PaaS offering MySQL, MariaDB • ClearDB - MySQL partnered with heroku, Azure clouds • Joyent - Image offers Percona MySQL and a Percona SmartMachine 9
- 10. The new entrants • Google Compute Engine offers Percona XtraDB Cluster as a “click-to-deploy” app • comes with Galera 3, Percona Toolkit, XtraBackup as well • Pivotal CloudFoundry - “MySQL” PaaS which is MariaDB Galera Cluster 10 • Red Hat OpenShift - MySQL 5.1/5.5, MariaDB 5.5 10
- 11. Beware • GenieDB - globally distributed MySQL as a service, master-master replication, works on EC2, Rackspace, Google Compute Engine, HP Cloud • Xeround - 2 weeks notice... 11
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- 13. What else do you get? • AWS RDS has PostgreSQL — notice the price • Most MongoDB users run within the cloud — but not hosted, it tends to be “roll your own” • Compose.io (now IBM) & the like (MongoLab) — hosted MongoDB, Redis, Enhanced PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, RethinkDB 13
- 14. Regions & Availability Zones • Region: a data centre location, containing multiple Availability Zones • Availability Zone (AZ): isolated from failures from other AZs + low- latency network connectivity to other zones in same region 14
- 15. Location, location, location • AWS RDS: US East (N.Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (California), EU (Ireland, Frankfurt),APAC (Singapore,Tokyo, Sydney), South America (São Paulo), GovCloud • Rackspace: USA (Dallas DFW, Chicago ORD, N. Virginia IAD),APAC (Sydney, Hong Kong), EU (London)* • Google Cloud SQL: US, EU,Asia • HP Cloud: US-East (Virginia), US-West 15
- 16. Service Level Agreements (SLA) • AWS - 99.95% in a calendar month • Rackspace - 99.9% in a calendar month • Google - 99.95% in a calendar month • HP Cloud - no specific DB SLA, 99.95% in a calendar month • SLAs exclude “scheduled maintenance” which may storage I/O + elevate latency • AWS is 30 minutes/week, so really 99.65% 16
- 17. Support • AWS - forums; $49/mo gets email; $100+ phone # • Rackspace - live chat, phone #, forums • Google - forums; $150/mo gets support portal; $400+ for phone # • HP Cloud - phone #, chat, customer forum 17
- 18. Who manages this? • AWS: self-management, Enterprise ($15k+) • Rackspace: $100 + 0.04 cents/hr over regular pricing • Google: self-management • HP Cloud: self-management 18
- 19. MySQL versions • AWS: MySQL Community 5.1, 5.5, 5.6 • Rackspace: MariaDB 10, MySQL 5.6/5.1, Percona Server 5.6 • Google: MySQL Community 5.5, 5.6 (preview) • HP Cloud: Percona Server 5.5.28 19
- 20. Access methods • AWS - within Amazon, externally via mysql client, API access. • Rackspace - private hostname within Rackspace network, API access. • Google - within AppEngine, a command line Java tool (gcutil), standard mysql client • HP Cloud - within HP Cloud, externally via client (trove-cli, reddwarf),API access, mysql client 20
- 21. Can you configure MySQL? • You don’t access my.cnf naturally • In AWS you have parameter groups which allow configuration of MySQL 21 source: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2013/08/21/amazon-rds-with-mysql-5-6-configuration-variables/
- 22. Cost • Subscribe to relevant newsletters of your services • Cost changes rapidly, plus you get new instance types and new features (IOPS) • Don’t forget network access costs • Monitor your costs daily, hourly if possible (EC2 instances can have spot pricing) 22
- 23. Costs:AWS • AWS prices vary between regions • http://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing/ 23
- 24. Costs:AWS II • Medium instances (3.75GB) useful for testing ($1,577/yr [2014] vs $2,411/yr [2013]) • Large instance (7.5GB) production ready ($3,241/yr vs $4,777/yr [2013]) • m3.2XL (30GB, 8vCPUs) ($12,964/yr) • XL instance (15GB, 8ECUs) ($9,555/yr) 24
- 25. Costs: Rackspace • Option to have regular Cloud Database or Managed Instances • 4GB instance (testing) is $2,102/yr (vs. $3,504/yr in 2013) • 8GB instance (production) is $4,205/yr (vs $6,658/yr in 2013) • Consider looking at I/O priority, and the actual TPS you get 25
- 26. Costs: Google • You must enable billing before you create Cloud SQL instances • https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/docs/billing • Testing (D8 - 4GB RAM) - ($4,274.15) • XL equivalent for production (D16 - 8GB RAM) - ($8,548.30) • Packages billing plans are cheaper than per-use billing plans 26
- 27. Costs: HP Cloud • 50% off pricing while in public beta • 4GB RAM, 60GB storage - $1,752/yr (usual: $3,504/yr) • 8GB RAM, 120GB storage - $3,504/yr (usual: $7,008/yr) 27
- 28. Where do you host your application? • Typically within the compute clusters of the service you’re running the DBaaS in • This also means your language choices are limited based on what the platform offers (eg.AppEngine only offers Java, Python, PHP, Go) 28
- 29. RDS: Multi-AZ • Provides enhanced durability (synchronous data replication) • Increased availability (automatic failover) • Warning: can be slow (1-10 mins+) • Easy GUI administration • Doesn’t give you another usable “read- replica” though 29
- 30. External replication • MySQL 5.6 you can do RDS -> Non-RDS • enable backup retention, you now have binlog access • target: exporting data out of RDS • Replicate into RDS with 5.5.33 or later • AWS provides stored procedures like mysql.rds_set_external_master nowadays 30
- 31. MySQL 5.6, MariaDB 10 • MySQL 5.6 in RDS provides crash-safe slaves, the InnoDB memcached interface, online schema changes, full-text InnoDB indexes, optimizer improvements, INFORMATION_SCHEMA enhancements, scalability/replication improvements, PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA enhancements • MariaDB 10 has much of that that, plus multi- source replication, GTIDs that don’t require full restarts, threadpool, audit plugin and more 31
- 32. Getting started • Importing data into the cloud? • mysqldump is a good choice today • Upgrading from RDS 5.5 to RDS 5.6? • mysqldump before, but nowadays you can do this via Read Replicas 32
- 33. Handling backups • You don’t get to use xtrabackup! • Google Cloud SQL automates backups (has a backup window - 4h) • Amazon has automated backups (with point- in-time recovery), with full daily snapshots (has a backup window). • Rackspace + HPCloud allow instance backups too 33
- 34. Monitoring • Options are limited,AWS has the best options currently available • Today you have CloudWatch • Google has basic read/write graphs • Rackspace has started with basic graphs, visuals for MySQL coming soon, have a beta Cloud Intelligence product 34
- 35. Storage Engines • MySQL (/MariaDB) have many • cool ones include TokuDB, SPIDER, CONNECT • You basically use InnoDB and MyISAM with cloud solutions • MyISAM on RDS won’t guarantee point- in-time recovery, snapshot restore 35
- 36. High Availability • Plan for node failures • Don’t assume node provisioning is quick • Backup, backup, backup! • “Bad” nodes exist • HA is not equal across options - RDS wins so far 36
- 37. Unsupported features • AWS: GTIDs, InnoDB Cache Warming, InnoDB transportable tablespaces, authentication plugins, semi-sync replication • Google: UDFs, replication, LOAD DATA INFILE, INSTALL PLUGIN, SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE 37
- 38. Provisioned IOPS • Only available on Amazon • Faster, predictable, consistent I/O performance with low latencies • Good throughput, RAID on backed • EBS is more reliable 38
- 39. More on RDS • log access via API • no SUPER access to skip replication errors easily • sync_binlog=0 not available • no OS access (sar, ps, tcpdump) • https://github.com/boto/boto 39
- 40. Warning: automatic upgrades • Regressions happen even with a minor version upgrade in the MySQL world • InnoDB update that modifies rows PK triggers recursive behaviour until all disk space is exceeded? 5.5.24->5.5.25 (fixed: 5.5.25a) • Using query cache for partitioned tables? Disabled since 5.5.22->5.5.23! 40
- 41. Benchmarking for use • sysbench • OLTP test, use tables with 20M rows and 20M transactions, check 1-128 threads/run (run this on RDS, Rackspace) • June 2013, tps, performance per dollar, Rackspace delivers more performance across all flavours except 512MB instance • Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark • https://github.com/ brianfrankcooper/YCSB • Google’s PerfKit Benchmarker • https://github.com/ GoogleCloudPlatform/ PerfKitBenchmarker 41
- 42. Roadmaps? • There don’t seem to be public roadmaps. You find out when there’s a change! • Presumably HPCloud will get 5.6… and maybe Google will get some MariaDB? 42
- 43. Usability 43
- 44. PostgreSQL in RDS • loading data? backup_retntion=0 • disable multi-AZ when loading • disable autovacuum • dump compressed, restore in parallel • don’t disable fsync (really!) • sync replication using multi-AZ • you can control the upgrade time though — this is a bonus • Use PIOPS • SSL should be on 44
- 45. Running MySQL in EC2 • Can do multiple geographic regions via replication • Run just one Percona Server/ MariaDB server/instance • Use additional EBS volumes for InnoDB tablespaces • RAID EBS volumes (RAID1) • Warm up data partitions, mount partitions with noatime, nodirtime • Vertical scaling with SSD-backed storage • Monitoring with nagios • Snapshot backups and save to S3 • Can use Elastic Load Balancer • Can use spot instances • Can use tools like MHA to provide automatic failover • Can use MariaDB Galera Cluster/ Percona XtraDB Cluster 45
- 46. AWS Aurora • Bigger instances work better • Zero-downtime migration from RDS • Metrics via CloudWatch • Connectors via MariaDB • 99.99% uptime 46
- 47. Some closing thoughts • Hardware varies per region • Sometimes, software manageability varies per region • Beware cost on your credit card! 47
- 48. Q&A.ThankYou. [email protected] | [email protected] http://bytebot.net/blog/ | @bytebot on Twitter Download MariaDB and give it a try: http://mariadb.org/ 48