The document discusses NoSQL and NewSQL databases, focusing on VMware's GemFire and SQLFire which provide a distributed in-memory data platform for big data processing and analytics. GemFire offers a key-value store and SQLFire adds SQL capabilities on top of GemFire. The document also describes how GemFire/SQLFire is typically deployed to provide high performance data access across application servers and a global data backbone.

1. No/New SQL
Olivier Mallassi,
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Sr. Systems Engineer, vFabric, Cloud Application Platform
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2. Big, Fast and Flexible Data – VMware’s Platform
Big Fast Flexible
Data Data Data
Big Data Developer
Analytics Frameworks
OSS Relational
In-Memory
Data Fabric
Big Data vPostgres
Processing
NewSQL DBs
GemFire
Serengeti

3. NoSQL and NewSQL: GemFire and SQLFire
GemFire
Region.put / get (key, object) CREATE TABLE FLIGHTAVAILABILITY (
Region.query(…) Java / .Net / C/C++ FLIGHT_ID CHAR(6) NOT NULL , …)
PARTITION BY COLUMN (FLIGHT_ID)
Region.read / write / through & behind
REDUNDANCY 1
Grid.ParallelExecute (….) COLOCATE WITH (FLIGHTS);
Low latency SQL
distributed memory Automatic dynamic shards
Parallel query
Parallel compute Parallel stored procedure
Frontend to legacy DB and mainframe
Map/Reduce
Flights Flights Flights
FlightsR FlightsR FlightsR WAN
FlightAvailability FlightAvailability FlightAvailability replication
FlightAvailabilityR FlightAvailabilityR FlightAvailabilityR
Airlines Airlines Airlines
Elastic capacity
Optional shared nothing
async disk writes / overflow with runtime rebalancing

4. How vFabric GemFire/SQLFire is Typically Deployed
HTTP Session State App Data Cache,
Global Data Backbone
Management and L2 Cache In-memory DB
Client Client Client Client Client Client
Application Servers
GemFire GemFire
Shopping cart state Shared data grid populated by
High performance OLTP
management multiple data feeds and
serving many clients

5. Ressources / benchmark
 SQLFire
• http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-15958
 Gemfire
• http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vmware-vfabric-gemfire-distributed-main-
memory-platform-WP-EN.pdf