Databases, the Cloud and its Discontents
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- 1. Databases, the Cloud and its Discontents “...it is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....” ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
- 2. Who am I?
- 3. IAN PLOSKER
- 4. Co-founder & CTO @dstroyallmodels about.me/ian.plosker
- 5. Our goal is to make storing and querying data so easy, you don’t need databases
- 6. Charles Darwin Charles Darwin demonstrated that all life on Earth is formed and transformed by the environmental pressures applied to it.
- 7. Sigmund Freud In Civilization and its Discontents Freud argues that our minds were forged before civilization, and that our maladaptive behaviors are remnants of a different time.
- 8. Ian Plosker In Databases, the Cloud and its Discontents Plosker argues that database were forged before the cloud, and that their maladaptive behaviors are remnants of a different time.
- 9. Path Dependence The idea that current available options may be limited by choices and forces in the past which are no longer relevant.
- 10. How Many Storage Engines Make These Assumptions: • The disks are local • The disk is spinning media • Memory pages are contiguous • The kernel is omnipotent • Records have a repeating form and a consistent size
- 11. How Many Distributed Database Make These Assumptions: • The network is reliable • Nodes in a cluster share a switch • Nodes in a cluster are in the same datacenter • Switch ingress/egress buffers never fill up • Networks are not congested
- 12. To understand our present choices, we must understand the past.
- 13. A Brief History of Databases
- 14. Let's start by reviewing the evolution of storage media
- 15. Writing, Paper, and Libraries (600 BCE, 105 CE, 2600 BCE)
- 16. Punch Card Databases (~1800)
- 17. Drums (invented 1930, general use 1950s)
- 18. Disks (invented 1954, general use 1960s)
- 19. Solid State (invented 1950s, general use 2000s)
- 20. Next let's review storage and query model
- 21. File Systems (proposed 1958, general use 1970s)
- 22. DBMS (1960s, general use 1970s) Two main models …
- 23. Navigational
- 24. Hierarchical
- 25. Enter the notorious RDBMS (proposed 1970s, general use 1980s)
- 26. To Summarize and Synthesize …
- 28. MEMCACHE BERKLEY DB GENIEDB COUCHBASE Databases in 2014 REDIS SWIFT RIAK VOLDEMORT TOKYO CABINET HBASE TEMPODB ELASTIC SEARCH NEO4J HIBARI COUCHDB BIG COUCH MARKLOGIC SERVER ORIENTDB NOSQL DB DYNAMO COHERENCE AEROSPIKE INFINIGRAPH DEX DRAWN TO SCALE SIMPLEDB FLOCKDB MNESIA COHERENCE MONGODB CASSANDRA 25+ databases in production today that didn’t exist 8 years ago
- 29. ONLINE QUERY TYPES Key-Value Search Geo Graph/ Relation Event Scale-up BerkleyDB CouchDB MongoDB MySQL SOLR Sphinx PostGIS MongoDB SOLR neo4j MySQL Scale-out Riak Cassandra elasticsearch elasticsearch titan HBase
- 30. The database paradox of choice: Choice has brought complexity
- 31. Enter: The Cloud