This document summarizes Newpharma's transition from a standalone database server to an enterprise MariaDB Galera cluster configuration between 2018-2023. It discusses the business needs that drove the change, including increased traffic and access to multiple data sources. Key benefits of the Galera cluster are highlighted like synchronous replication, read/write access from any node, and automatic node joining. Challenges of migrating like converting table types and splitting large transactions are also outlined. The transition has supported Newpharma's growth to over 100 million euro in turnover.

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A prescription for a healthy
database evolution
Newpharma
and
MariaDB
By Razvan Vlasin, CIO Newpharma Group / September 2023

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Major pan-European e-commerce player
Belgium, France, Netherlands, Swiss, Germany, Austria
1.700 brands and 45.000 active products

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#1 e-pharmacy in France
Meilleur E-commerçant de
l'Année 2023

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CLOUD DATA & ANALYTICS
3rd PARTY INTEGRATION WITH TIER 1 SERVICES
LOGISTICS / MARKETING / PRICING
RESPONSIVE WEB SHOP ENGINE
4.024.172 lines of programming code
2.251.805 lines of static code
230 repositories in git
325 libraries
TECHNOLOGY
OUR

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ENTERPRISE

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server, cca.2018
• Increased traffic
• Increased access to
data from multiple
sources

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Does business accept downtime ?
Do I care if customer notice ?
Do I require no loss of data ?
Do I need automatic fail over ?

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Galera benefit over a standard replication
Synchronous replication
Galera is behaving very well on scaling readings
Read and write to any node
Automatic node joining

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www.newpharma-development.ro
Load Balancing
Improved Failover/Switchover scenario
Casual reads
MaxScale

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100 000 000 euro turnover

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ENTERPRISE

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2020 - 2021

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ENTERPRISE
2022 - 2023

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Challenges when migrating
Adapt database to Galera Cluster
• Convert ISAM to InnoDB
• All Tables with Primary keys
• Large transactions affecting node performance
• Split transactions in smaller chunks to reduce the
writings under Galera cluster

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Transition to Enterprise
Consultancy In choosing the best architecture
MariaDB customer support access
Small team trained by MariaDB trainer

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Other MariaDB Use Cases
MariaDB ColumnStore used for a Machine learning project
to forecast the number of orders
System versioning for Slowly Changing Dimensions
MariaDB MyRocks used for operations logs

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Liberté, égalité, Maria DB !

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Thank you!