The document discusses how to effectively run containerized SQL applications in the cloud, highlighting the challenges of container environments for SQL databases and the importance of elasticity, availability, and performance. It introduces Nuodb, a distributed SQL database that combines scalable architecture with transactional consistency, and emphasizes its support for microservices and container-native storage through OpenEBS. Additionally, it outlines resources for implementation and emphasizes the advantages of using this solution for cost savings and operational flexibility.

1. How to Run Containerized Enterprise
SQL Applications in Cloud
April 17, 2019
Joe Leslie, Senior Product Manager, NuoDB
Murat Karslioglu, VP of Products, MayaData

2. Copyright © 2019 NuoDB, Inc.
Joe Leslie
Senior Product Manager
NuoDB
Murat Karslioglu
VP of Products
MayaData
MEET THE PRESENTERS
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5. MOVING TO THE CLOUD,
RETHINKING EVERYTHING
Microservices
and Containers
Growing Data
Workloads
Developer
Retooling
Dev-ops &
Agile
Data
Security
Purchasing
Patterns

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CONTAINER CHALLENGES FOR
SQL DATABASES
Replication
Legacy data replication
not designed for
container environments
Performance
Network and storage
abstraction layers
require careful
planning
Lift-and-Shift
Moving existing Apps
to the cloud
container model is a
sizable task

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Virtualization,
Commodity & Cloud
Scale out / in
ACID
(consistency)
Existing SQL
skills & code
SQL database
abstraction
What everyone wants: What they don’t want to lose
“Elasticity” “SQL”
“I want to elastically scale my SQL RDBMS to the cloud”
Continuous
Availability
WHAT’S NEEDED FOR CLOUD
SUCCESS?
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8. “NuoDB combines the scale-out simplicity and
continuous availability that cloud applications require
with the transactional consistency and durability that
databases of record demand.”
INTRODUCING ANOTHER WAY

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+ Founded in 2010
+ Management team and investors
are database pioneers
+ Patented distributed SQL database
+ Leading SaaS & on-premises
applications run on NuoDB
+ HQ in Cambridge, MA
NuoDB
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+ A distributed, peer-to-peer system
appearing as a single, logical database
+ Transactional and Storage
components scale independently to
meet on-demand Application
requirements
+ Continuously Available - Survive
failures and perform rolling upgrades
+ Straightforward ANSI SQL interface
+ Adheres to ACID database properties
+ Deploy across geographical locations
- AZs and DCs
In-memory
transactions for
application data
affinity
Durable, scale-out
storage
NuoDB: THE DISTRIBUTED SQL DATABASE
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Process/host faults Storage faults Network faults
SM
A
TE
A
TE
A
TE
SM SM
Application ServicesA Transaction Engine (TE)TEStorage Manager (SM)SM
A
SM
TE
A
TE
A
TE
A
SM
TE
A
TE
A
TE
SMSM SM SM
ALWAYS-ON WITH NUODB CONTAINERS
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Web/Mobile Application
+ Read dominated
+ Scale-out compute tier
SCALING THE DATABASE TO MEET APP
REQUIREMENTS WITH NUODB CONTAINERS
OLTP Application
+ Mixed read/write
+ Scale-out compute & storage tiers
Logging Application
+ Insert dominated
+ Scale-out storage tier
HTAP Application
+ Mixed read/write
+ Dedicated analytical nodes
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RDBMS
OCP / K8s OCP / K8s
Traditional RDBMS runs outside
Container-Native Environment
Container-native NuoDB runs as a set of
containers forming a single logical database
TRADITIONAL vs. CONTAINER-NATIVE RDBMS
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+ NuoDB – OLTP SQL database for Digital Transformation
▪ Always-On in the cloud
▪ Scale database components independently
▪ SQL/ACID Compliant
+ Supports Red Hat OpenShift and open source Kubernetes
▪ Container-native database
▪ Optimized for microservices
▪ Supports leading container-native storage solutions
+ Proven
▪ Trusted by leading Fortune companies
▪ Multiple Banking and Telecom systems in production
SUMMARY

15. Microservices
and Containers
DevOps &
Agile
NVMe &
SCM

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+ Company founded in 2010
+ OpenEBS Project started in 2016
+ Global team with depth in Storage,
DevOps, SaaS and managed service
+ Large community behind OpenEBS
and chaos engineering project
Litmus.
+ HQ in San Jose, CA
● OpenEBS:
○ 2.5M+ Docker pulls
○ 5500+ GitHub stars
○ 6k+ users
MayaData & OpenEBS
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+ Leading OSS project for CAS
+ Cloud-native / Built on K8s
OpenEBS: Container Attached Storage
+ Per workload / Flexible configuration
+ Deploy across DCs & AZs
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The Idea: Container Attached Storage
Manifests express
intent stateless
Container 1 Container 2 Container 3
Container 1 Container 2 Container 3
stateful
Container 1 Container 2 Container 3
Data Container Data Container Data Container
Any Server, Any Cloud Any Server, Any Cloud
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IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO
Platform
Flexibility
Freedom from
lock-in
User
Experience
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+ The bar - user expectations - has been set by AWS and others
+ My data is just there - accessible via NuoDB - and works without me needing
to do anything or even think about storage vs. DBs
+ Why would anyone want to run their own environment, as opposed to
relying on a cloud-provider-service?
Freedom from lock-in & control resulting in greater agility including the
ability to operate across clouds
To achieve these benefits, operations have to be simple and completely
automated with multiple layers of resilience
DBaaS-like Experience
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+ No need to manage the local disks
+ Large size PVs can be provisioned
+ Start with small storage and add disks
as needed on the fly.
+ Take backup of the NuoDB data
periodically and back them up to S3 or
any object storage so that restoration
of the same data is possible to the
same or any other Kubernetes cluster
Advantages: OpenEBS for NuoDB
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Costs:
+ Your devs spin up containers
▪ 10-100x the rate of VMs
▪ Many storage systems cannot
handle rate of attach / detach
+ 25-30% are stateful requiring storage
▪ Storage from clouds is 5-10x
more expensive than ephemeral
disks
TCO - Cost Savings
Solution:
+ Per container storage
▪ Granular control
▪ Eliminates attach / detach
challenges
+ Runs across direct attached storage
including ephemeral
▪ Saves 25-30% directly
+ Thin provisioning reduces need to
reprovision or over provision
▪ Additional 20-25% savings
45-50% $ savings

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MayaData Agility Platform
+ OpenEBS:
Leading OSS containerized storage
+ Litmus:
Leading OSS chaos engineering for
stateful workloads
+ MayaOnline:
Control and visibility
+ Services such as DMaaS:
Data migration as a service
+ Proactive support
MDAP
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+ NuoDB & OpenEBS Solution Guide:
▪ https://mayadata.io/assets/pdf/nuodb-openebs-solution-docs.pdf
+ OpenEBS Documentation:
▪ https://docs.openebs.io/docs/next/nuodb.html
+ OpenEBS Getting Started Workshop
▪ https://www.katacoda.com/openebs/scenarios/openebs-intro
▪ https://github.com/openebs/community/tree/master/workshop
+ OpenEBS & Litmus Repositories
▪ https://github.com/openebs/openebs
▪ https://github.com/openebs/litmus
Solution & Resources
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25. DEMO
Joe Leslie
Senior Product Manager
NuoDB
Uma Mukkara
Co-founder/COO
MayaData

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Demo Overview
Architecture, Demo of NuoDB on MayaOnline and NuoDB insights
Scaling up of NuoDB components including the underlying OpenEBS
storage.
Performing chaos on TE, Admin and SM components and
demonstrating high availability of NuoDB . Overview of Inserting
chaos in NuoDB using Litmus framework in CI pipelines
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Demo Setup
EE 3.11
0.8.1
EE 3.3.1
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Production Sizing Recommendations
32GB Memory
16 vCPUs
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Demo Setup
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Demo Setup
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Demo Setup
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NuoDB Pipeline on MayaData CI
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33. SUMMARY

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+ MDAP is the first truly cross cloud data layer that:
▪ frees enterprises from lock-in
▪ controls cloud spending
▪ while delivering a consistent developer
experience across clouds and data centers
+ Certified /w OpenShift and runs on open source
Kubernetes
▪ Container-native database
▪ Optimized for microservices
SUMMARY
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+ OpenEBS Documentation:
▪ https://docs.openebs.io/docs/next/nuodb.html
+ OpenEBS Getting Started Workshop
▪ https://www.katacoda.com/openebs/scenarios/openebs-intro
▪ https://github.com/openebs/community/tree/master/workshop
+ OpenEBS & Litmus Repositories
▪ https://github.com/openebs/openebs
▪ https://github.com/openebs/litmus
+ NuoDB Documentation:
▪ http://doc.nuodb.com/Latest/Default.htm
+ NuoDB CE Download:
▪ https://www.nuodb.com/download
Solution & Resources
NuoDB & OpenEBS Solution Guide
▪ https://mayadata.io/assets/pdf/nuodb-opene
bs-solution-docs.pdf
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