MySQL can be the perfect answer for fast-growing, highly-performant and geographically-distributed database environments, but in order to function as a business-critical system with immediate response times, the ubiquitous database server needs a little help. That’s where Continuent and Datavail come in. Combined, these two companies, which specialize in making MySQL and other databases perform continuously, have helped hundreds of enterprise, mid-market and start-up companies alike, including many in the data-dependent SaaS, e-commerce, financial services and gaming industries. In addition, we’ll dive into why ‘managed’ database-as-a-service solutions, may not be quite as self-managing as people would like to believe. You’ll hear several case studies on how clients are effectively utilizing Continuent Tungsten software and Datavail services to optimize their MySQL environments.

1. September, 2019

2. 2
Eero Teerikorpi
Founder and CEO of Continuent
• Serial Entrepreneur
• In the MySQL marketplace
from the beginning, since
2002
The MySQL Availability Company

3. Continuent Intro
• Continuent, the MySQL Availability Company, provides solutions
for continuous operations enabling business-critical MySQL
applications to run on a global scale with zero downtime.
• Continuent provides geo-distributed MySQL high availability on-
premises, in hybrid-cloud, and in multi-cloud environments.
• Continuent customers are leading SaaS, e-commerce, financial
services, gaming and telco companies who rely on MySQL and
Continuent to cost-effectively safeguard billions of dollars
annual revenue.
• Continuent’s database experts offer the industry's best 24/7
MySQL support services to ensure continuous client operations.
The MySQL Availability Company

4. 4
Proven Tungsten
Clustering
Solutions
Our solutions handle billions of transactions per
day and support businesses with billions of
dollars in combined revenue:

5. 5
Srinivasa “Krishna”
MySQL Practice Lead/ Sr DBA
• MySQL / MariaDB / Percona
• 15+ years of DBA Experience

6. Health Checks &
Assessments
Project Services
Upgrades Data Migration
Cloud Services
24x7 In-Office
Coverage
Operational Managed Services
Monitoring & Incident
Response w/ SLAs
Service Requests
(Patch, Modify, etc.)
Multi-factor
Monitoring
Proactive Services
(Health, Tune)
Structured Service
Review
Data Development Services
Development, Tuning,
Automation
Data Warehouse
Build & Optimize
DevOps
(Deploy & Automate)
Datavail Services

7. Datavail MySQL Services and Solutions
• Health Checks and Assessment
Reports
• Upgrades and Migrations
• MySQL Storage Engines
• Cloud Migrations
• MySQL Document Store
(NoSQL with MySQL)
• MySQL + Memcache
• Load Balancing using HA Proxy,
Proxy SQL, etc.
• Change Control Process
• Data Encryption
• SSL Implementation
• AD Integration
• MySQL Audit Reviews (FISMA / FERPA
/PCI / HIPAA / PPI / SOX Compliance)
• Database Partitioning/Sharding

8. • Database Architecture Support
• Database Optimization
• Performance Tuning
• High Availability Solutions
• Reliable and Scalable Clustering
Solutions using MySQL
• Provide Disaster Recovery Solutions
Datavail MySQL Services and Solutions
• Automate Database Operations
• Secure Database Systems
• Provide Monitoring Solutions
• Managed Services Support to
your Database Systems
• Projects/Development work
using MySQL

9. Agenda
• Hidden costs of ‘free’ DIY solutions for business-critical MySQL
• How managed are the ‘managed' database-as-service solutions
such as AWS Aurora?
• Three use cases of Business Critical MySQL
 HA — Online radio service with million of users
 HA/DR — Modern, award-winning SaaS focusing on medical records management
 Geo-distributed Database — Large gaming company with hundreds million of players
• Benefits of Continuent solutions
• What DatAvail brings on top of these solutions
• Q&A

10. Hidden costs of ‘free’ DIY solutions for
business-critical MySQL Continuent to
add!

11. Hidden costs of ‘free’ DIY solutions for
business-critical MySQL, Part II Continuent to
add!

12. How managed are the ‘managed' database-as-service
solutions?
DatAvail to add!

13. MySQL HA with Read Scale
Continuous MySQL Availability with Scaling
[Single Tungsten Clustering topology –Active 3-node Cluster with
Additional Read-only Slaves]
Challenge
Web-based applications are inherently 24/7/365 operations, thus they require zero
downtime, even during maintenance operations. Also, as the user base grows, web-
application providers need to have an easy and consistent model to scale.
Solution
Tungsten Clustering is ideal for scalable architectures with the core high-availability
MySQL cluster and practically unlimited scale on reads.
Benefits
Availability, Scalability
and Performance
Customer
Online Radio, which scaled from millions listeners
to tens of millions using Tungsten Clustering
VPC
us-west

14. Tungsten MySQL Use Case
MySQL HA and Simple Disaster Recovery
[Composite Active/Passive Tungsten Clustering topology – Active 3-node Cluster and three (3) DR Server]
Challenge
Using AWS allowed Customer to rapidly provision database and application servers. However, the
instances, underlying storage, and management interface are not highly available. By using Tungsten
Clustering, Customer can quickly deploy clusters in AWS and recover from multi-zone AWS outages.
Solution
Customer’s current, growing deployment includes 17 Tungsten MySQL clusters in AWS (totaling 68
MySQL servers) using a Pod architecture. Each Pod includes 3-node Tungsten clusters deployed in multi-
AZ AWS, and DR cluster is deployed in another AWS region.
Benefits
Availability, Scalability,
Data Protection
Customer
SaaS provider with sensitive medical data, which offers EMA, the electronic
healthcare record solution (that ‘speaks the language of doctors’).
VPC
us-west-
VPC
us-west-
2

15. Geo-Scale MySQL for Global Operations
Multi-Cloud MySQL
[Composite Active/Passive Tungsten Clustering topology – One Active Cluster and
Multiple Passive Clusters in four (4) AWS Cloud Regions]
Challenge
Servicing a single application for the geographically distributed audience is a unique
challenge. It requires fast local response times for the read traffic, a limited number of
updates, and a single consolidated view of the data across the world. This is very
typical for gaming applications, and for all account/subscription management systems.
Solution
Geo-distributed Composite Tungsten clusters (one active and three passive MySQL
clusters) in USA West (Active), USA East (Passive), EMEA (Passive) and APAC (Passive).
Benefits
Geo-scale, Availability,
Disaster Recovery
Customer
A global gaming company with more than 350 million
world-wide player accounts, and several hundreds million
player accounts in combined.
VPC
us-west-1
VPC
us-east-1
VPC
apac-north-1
VPC
emea-north-1

16. Tungsten Key Benefits
1. Continuous MySQL Operations
• MySQL High Availability and Disaster Recovery
solution, which provides redundancy within and
across data centers
• Immediate failover for maximum availability and
data protection of business-critical MySQL
applications
• Reduce MySQL recovery time from hours or days
to mere seconds
• Dashboard provides graphical view and
management of all globally distributed MySQL
clusters
2. Zero Downtime MySQL
• Site-level and cross-site failover ensures
application availability
• Upgrade hardware, software and data without
taking applications offline
• MySQL compatibility means seamless migration
of your data and applications

17. 3. Geo-Scale MySQL
• Load-balance MySQL read
operations across multiple
slaves, locally and globally
• Geo-distributed MySQL
clusters bring data close to
your application users for
faster response times
• Easily add more MySQL
clusters as needed for
unlimited scaling, both
locally or across the globe
4. Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-
Cloud MySQL
• Deploy in the cloud, VM and bare
metal environments
• Mix-and-match on-premises, private
and public clouds (incl. Amazon AWS,
Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure)
• Easy, seamless migration from cloud to
cloud to avoid vendor lock-in in any
specific cloud provider
• Withstand node, data center, zone or
region failures or outages
5. Intelligent MySQL
Proxy
• Provides intelligent traffic
routing to a valid MySQL
master, locally and globally
• Scale read queries via query
inspection and other methods
• Application and active users
do not disconnect during
MySQL master failover events
Tungsten Key Benefits

18. 6. Most Advanced MySQL Replication
• Filter and transform your data in-flight
• No more ETL, get real-time data feeds into
your analytics
• Replicate directly into popular analytic
repositories: AWS RedShift, Cassandra,
ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, HDFS, Kafka and
Vertica
• Unlimited real-time transactional data transfer
to eliminate escalating replication cost of ETL-
based alternatives
7. Full MySQL Support, No Application
Changes
• Deploy and Configure MySQL clusters in minutes
• Not ‘MySQL-compatible” solution. Use any of your off-
the-shelf MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server versions
• Support for all modern MySQL (5.x through 8.x) and
MariaDB (5.x and 10.x) versions and features
• SSL support for all in-flight traffic
• Native MySQL support means easy and complete
migration of your data and applications
Tungsten Key Benefits

19. 8. Cost Savings
• Use the free open-source MySQL for your
business-critical needs
• Optimize costs by selecting the most cost-
effective cloud environment(s) at any given time
• Eliminate downtime risks and associated cost,
also during maintenance (zero downtime
maintenance operations)
• Reduce DBA time spent on admin and recovery
operations, lowering your costs while increasing
reliability
9. Industry Best 24/7 MySQL Customer
Service
• Highly Qualified 24/7 support. All support team
member have 15 or more years of MySQL DBA
and Site Reliability Experience
• 24/7 support comes with 1-hour SLA, with
response times for urgent requests averaging
less than 5 minutes
• MySQL uptime measured in months or years
Tungsten Key Benefits

20. Functions that must be address in a PaaS Database Environment
• Best Practices are in place
(Golden image document)
• Instance types/size
• Cost Optimization
• Provisioning the Instances
• High Availability and Scalability Options
• DR Test cases
• Multi Cloud/Hybrid Cloud Setup
• Troubleshooting DB issues like
locking/blocking/long-running queries, etc.
• Address Replication Latency issues (External)
• Maintenance Scheduling
• Cross region Replication
• Snapshot Management
• Restore/Recovery operations
• Migrating in/out of Cloud
• Enabling new features/functionality and
enhancements
Database Architecture
and Design
Platform Operations

21. • Schema Design
• Data Management and SQL Deployments.
• Identifying Slow queries
• Configuration Optimization
• Deadlocks and Application errors
• Security Assessment and Best Practices - User
management and access management.
• AD/SSO Integrations
• Info Sec Policies and Auditing Requirements.
• Encryption of Data at rest/transition/masking
Application and
Performance
Security
Functions that must be address in a PaaS Database Environment

22. Q&A

23. Thank you