The document discusses MySQL Cluster and how it provides in-memory real-time performance, web scalability, and 99.999% availability. It then summarizes how PayPal, Big Fish, Alcatel-Lucent, and Playful Play use MySQL Cluster for mission critical applications that require high performance, scalability, and availability.

1. MySQL
Cluster
In-­‐Memory
Real-­‐Time
Performance,
Web
Scalability
&
99.999%
Availability
Mark
Swarbrick
Principle
Presales
Consultant

2. Safe
Harbor
Statement
The
following
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intended
to
outline
our
general
product
direc?on.
It
is
intended
for
informa?on
purposes
only,
and
may
not
be
incorporated
into
any
contract.
It
is
not
a
commitment
to
deliver
any
material,
code,
or
func?onality,
and
should
not
be
relied
upon
in
making
purchasing
decisions.
The
development,
release,
and
?ming
of
any
features
or
func?onality
described
for
Oracle’s
products
remains
at
the
sole
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3. consumer
employee
business
model
around-the-clock
availability
mobile
social
personalized
service
Information any
time, anywhere
flawless engagement
insight
real-time
fulfillment
new markets

4. Focus
on
driving
the
business
rather
than
on
infrastructure
Driving
new
Database
Requirements
In-­‐Memory
Real-­‐Time
Performance
Extreme
Read
&
Write
Scalability
Rock
Solid
Availability
Rapid
Service
Innova?on
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5. MySQL
Cluster
Overview
• Memory
op?mized
tables
with
durability
• Predictable
Low-­‐Latency,
Bounded
Access
Time
REAL-­‐TIME
• Auto-­‐Sharding,
Mul?-­‐Master
• ACID
Compliant,
OLTP
+
Real-­‐Time
Analy?cs
HIGH
SCALE,
READS
+
WRITES
• Shared
nothing,
no
Single
Point
of
Failure
• Self
Healing
+
On-­‐Line
Opera?ons
99.999%
AVAILABILITY
• Key/Value
+
Complex,
Rela?onal
Queries
• SQL
+
Memcached
+
JavaScript
+
Java
+
HTTP/REST
&
C++
SQL
+
NoSQL
• Open
Source
+
Commercial
Edi?ons
• Commodity
hardware
+
Management,
Monitoring
Tools
LOW
TCO
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6. Who’s
Using
MySQL
Cluster?
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7. Company
Overview
PayPal
allows
any
business
or
individual
with
an
email
address
to
securely,
conveniently
and
cost-­‐effec?vely
send
and
receive
payments
online.
ApplicaSon
PayPal
built
a
cloud-­‐based
globally-­‐distributed
database
with
100
TB
of
user-­‐related
data
based
on
MySQL
Cluster.
“Must
NOT
lose
data”
system,
delivering
99,999%
availability,
transac?onal,
with
data
available
WW
anywhere
in
<
1
Sec.
Why
MySQL
Cluster?
“You
can
achieve
high
performance
and
availability
without
giving
up
rela8onal
models
and
read
consistency.”
Daniel
Aus?n,
Chief
Architect,
PayPal
PayPal
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8. Company
Overview
World's
largest
producer
of
casual
games.
Big
Fish
has
distributed
more
than
2.5
billion
games
to
customers
in
150
countries.
ApplicaSon
Serve
real-­‐?me
recommenda?ons
to
Big
Fish
customers,
requiring
high
velocity
data
ingest,
low
latency
access,
online
scalability,
99.999%
availability
and
Enterprise
SLAs
&
roadmap.
Why
MySQL
Cluster
CGE?
"The
MMS
pla@orm
is
a
strategic
project
within
Big
Fish.
We
couldn’t
afford
to
take
any
chances
and
MySQL
Cluster
provided
us
with
a
proven
and
trusted
solu8on
to
meet
the
demands
of
both
our
business
and
our
users.“
Sean
Chighizola,
Sr.
Director
of
Database
Administra?on,
Big
Fish
Big
Fish
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9. Company
Overview
Global
telecommunica?ons
equipment
company,
focuses
on
fixed,
mobile,
and
converged
networking
hardware,
IP
technologies,
somware,
and
services.
ApplicaSon
MySQL
Cluster
CGE
is
at
the
heart
of
Alcatel-­‐Lucent’s
Subscriber
Data
Manager
to
deliver
converged
IMS
services
to
mobile
and
fixed
line
users.
Why
MySQL
Cluster
CGE?
• Delivers
the
performance,
scalability
and
availability
required
by
this
mission
cri?cal
real-­‐?me
applica?on
• Real-­‐?me
read
&
write
access
for
tens
of
millions
of
subscribers
in
a
single
system
• Always-­‐on
service:
no
offline
maintenance
window
for
services
users
depend
on
(voice,
SMS,
email,
Web,
social
media…)
• Rapid
delivery
&
low
TCO
Alcatel-­‐Lucent
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10. Company
Overview
Playful
Play
created
La?n
America’s
#1
Facebook
game
based
on
"El
Chavo
del
8“.
ApplicaSon
Playful
Play
selected
MySQL
Cluster
CGE
running
on
a
public
cloud
to
power
their
gaming
plauorm,
providing:
• 45%
improvement
in
performance
• 99.999%
up?me
• 80%
reduc?on
in
DBA
overhead
• Local
language
support,
24x7
Why
MySQL
Cluster
CGE?
“MySQL
Cluster
has
allowed
us
to
keep
pace
with
the
rapid
success
of
the
game.
Being
the
number
one
Facebook
game
in
La8n
America
is
a
big
responsibility,
and
we
rely
on
Oracle’s
products
and
MySQL
support
for
con8nued
growth.”
Ricardo
Rocha,
CEO,
Playful
Play
Playful
Play
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11. MySQL
ReplicaSon
MySQL
Fabric
DRBD
Windows/
Solaris/
Clusterware
Clustering
or
Oracle
VM
MySQL
Cluster
MySQL
HA
Solu?ons
19th
February
2015
9
9
.
9
9
9
%
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12. Oracle
MySQL
HA
&
Scaling
Solu?ons
MySQL
ReplicaSon
MySQL
Fabric
Oracle
VM
Template
Oracle
Clusterware
Solaris
Cluster
Windows
Cluster
DRBD
MySQL
Cluster
App
Auto-­‐Failover
✖
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
Data
Layer
Auto-­‐Failover
✖
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
Zero
Data
Loss
MySQL
5.7
MySQL
5.7
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
Plauorm
Support
All
All
Linux
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
All
Clustering
Mode
Master
+
Slaves
Master
+
Slaves
AcSve/
Passive
AcSve/
Passive
AcSve/
Passive
AcSve/
Passive
AcSve/
Passive
MulS-­‐
Master
Failover
Time
N/A
Secs
Secs
+
Secs
+
Secs
+
Secs
+
Secs
+
<
1
Sec
Scale-­‐out
Reads
✔
✖
✖
✖
✖
✖
✔
Cross-­‐shard
opera?ons
N/A
✖
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
✔
Transparent
rou?ng
✖
For
HA
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
Shared
Nothing
✔
✔
✖
✖
✖
✖
✔
✔
Storage
Engine
InnoDB+
InnoDB+
InnoDB+
InnoDB+
InnoDB+
InnoDB+
InnoDB+
NDB
Single
Vendor
Support
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✖
✔
✔
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13. MySQL
Cluster
Architecture
MySQL
Cluster
Data
Nodes
Clients
Applica?on
Layer
Data
Layer
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14. MySQL
Cluster
Scaling
MySQL
Cluster
Data
Nodes
Clients
Applica?on
Layer
Data
Layer
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15. On-­‐line
Opera?ons
• Scale
the
cluster
(add
&
remove
nodes
on-­‐line)
• Repar??on
tables
• Upgrade
/
patch
servers
&
OS
• Upgrade
/
patch
MySQL
Cluster
• Back-­‐Up
• Evolve
the
schema
on-­‐line,
in
real-­‐?me
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16. MySQL
Cluster
Auto-­‐Installer
• Fast
configura?on
• Auto-­‐discovery
• Workload
op?mized
• Repeatable
best
prac?ces
Specify
Workload
Auto-­‐
Discover
Define
Topology
Deploy
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19. NoSQL
Access
to
MySQL
Cluster
data
Apps
Apps
Apps
Apps
Apps
Apps
Apps
Apps
Apps
Apps
Apps
Apps
JPA
Cluster
JPA
PHP
Perl
Python
Ruby
JDBC
Cluster
J
JS
Apache
Memcached
MySQL
JNI
Node.JS
mod_ndb
ndb_eng
NDB
API
(C++)
MySQL
Cluster
Data
Nodes

20. Schema-­‐Free
apps
• Rapid
applica?on
evolu?on
– New
types
of
data
constantly
added
– No
?me
to
get
schema
extended
– Missing
skills
to
extend
schema
– Ini?ally
roll
out
to
just
a
few
users
– Constantly
adding
to
live
system
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21. Cluster
&
Memcached
–
Schema-­‐Free
<town:maidenhead,SL6>
key
value
<town:maidenhead,SL6>
key
value
Key
Value
town:maidenhead
SL6
generic
table
Applica?on
view
SQL
view
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22. Cluster
&
Memcached
-­‐
Configured
Schema
<town:maidenhead,SL6>
prefix
key
value
<town:maidenhead,SL6>
key
value
Prefix
Table
Key-­‐col
Val-­‐col
policy
town:
map.zip
town
code
cluster
Config
tables
town
...
code
...
maidenhead
...
SL6
...
map.zip
Applica?on
view
SQL
view
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23. Node.js
NoSQL
API
• Na?ve
JavaScript
access
to
MySQL
Cluster
– End-­‐to-­‐End
JavaScript:
browser
to
the
app
&
DB
– Storing
and
retrieving
JavaScript
objects
directly
in
MySQL
Cluster
– Eliminate
SQL
transforma?on
• Implemented
as
a
module
for
node.js
– Integrates
Cluster
API
library
within
the
web
app
• Couple
high
performance,
distributed
apps,
with
high
performance
distributed
database
• Op?onally
routes
through
MySQL
Server
– Use
with
InnoDB
V8 JavaScript Engine
MySQL Cluster Node.js Module
MySQL Cluster Data Nodes
Clients
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24. NoSQL
API
for
Node.js
&
FKs
FKs
enforced
on
all
APIs:
{ message: 'Error',
sqlstate: '23000',
ndb_error: null,
cause:
{message: 'Foreign key constraint violated: No parent row found [255]',
sqlstate: '23000',
ndb_error:
{ message: 'Foreign key constraint violated: No parent row found',
code: 255,
classification: 'ConstraintViolation',
handler_error_code: 151,
status: 'PermanentError' },
cause: null } }
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25. MySQL
Cluster
7.4
GA
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26. MySQL
Cluster
7.4
GA
• 200
Million
NoSQL
Reads/Sec
• 2.5M
SQL
Ops/Sec
• 50%
Faster
Reads
• 40%
Faster
Mixed
Performance
• Ac?ve-­‐Ac?ve
Geographic
Redundancy
• Conflict
Detec?on/
Resolu?on
Ac?ve-­‐Ac?ve
• 5X
Faster
Maintenance
Ops
• Detailed
Repor?ng
Management
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27. • Memory
op?mized
tables
– Durable
– Mix
with
disk-­‐based
tables
• Massively
concurrent
OLTP
• Distributed
Joins
for
analy?cs
• Parallel
table
scans
for
non-­‐indexed
searches
• MySQL
Cluster
7.4
FlexAsych
– 200M
NoSQL
Reads/Second
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MySQL
Cluster
7.4
NoSQL
Performance
200
Million
NoSQL
Reads/Second
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!50,000,000!!
!100,000,000!!
!150,000,000!!
!200,000,000!!
!250,000,000!!
2! 4! 6! 8! 10! 12! 14! 16! 18! 20! 22! 24! 26! 28! 30! 32!
Reads&per&second&
Data&Nodes&
FlexAsync&Reads&

28. • Memory
op?mized
tables
– Durable
– Mix
with
disk-­‐based
tables
• Massively
concurrent
OLTP
• Distributed
Joins
for
analy?cs
• Parallel
table
scans
for
non-­‐indexed
searches
• MySQL
Cluster
7.4
DBT2
BM
– 2.5M
SQL
Statements/Second
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MySQL
Cluster
7.4
SQL
Performance
2.5M
SQL
Statements/Second
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!500,000!!
!1,000,000!!
!1,500,000!!
!2,000,000!!
!2,500,000!!
!3,000,000!!
2! 4! 6! 8! 10! 12! 14! 16!
SQL$Statements/sec$
Data$Nodes$
DBT2$SQL$Statements$per$Second$

29. Performance Enhancements
MySQL Cluster 7.4
50%
Read-­‐Only
Increase
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0"
1000"
2000"
3000"
4000"
5000"
6000"
7000"
8000"
9000"
64" 128" 192" 256" 320" 384" 448" 512"
Transac'ons)per)second)
Threads)
Sysbench)R/W)
7.4"
7.3"
7.2"
0"
1000"
2000"
3000"
4000"
5000"
6000"
7000"
8000"
9000"
10000"
64" 128" 192" 256" 320" 384" 448" 512"
Transac'on)per)second)
Threads)
Sysbench)RO)
7.4"
7.3"
7.2"
40%
Read/Write
Increase

30. • Asynchronous
replica?on
between
MySQL
Clusters
• Ac?ve-­‐Ac?ve
– Update
anywhere
– Conflict
detec?on
• Applica?on
no?fied
through
excep?on
tables
• Can
opt
to
have
conflicts
resolved
automa?cally
– Auto-­‐conflict-­‐resolu?on
• Conflic?ng
transac?on
and
dependent
ones
are
rolled-­‐back
• No
changes
to
applica?on
schema
Ac?ve-­‐Ac?ve
Geo-­‐Replica?on
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31. MySQL
Cluster
7.4
Restart
Improvements
• Dura?on
of
long-­‐running
maintenance
ac?vi?es
dominated
by
Data
Node
restart
?mes
• MySQL
Cluster
7.4
=
5.5X
faster
restarts
• Benefits
both
nodal
and
rolling
restarts
– Upgrades,
add-­‐node,…
• Benefits
both
SQL
and
NoSQL
APIs
• Benefits
both
”manual”
and
MySQL
Cluster
Manager
opera?ons
• Achieve
5x
as
much
during
a
single
maintenance
window
Make
Data
Node
Restarts
Fast!
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32. MySQL
Cluster
7.4
–
Enhanced
memory
repor?ng
• ndbinfo.memory_per_fragment
memory
usage
informa?on
for
each
fragment
replica,
for
each
table
and
index
• Allocated
memory
and
how
much
of
that
is
actually
in
use.
• Exposes
– Fragmenta?on
of
fixed
and
var-­‐sized
fragment
pages
– Accurate
Data
and
Index
Memory
use
– Comparison
of
Primary
and
Backup
fragment
usage
– Par??oning
effec?veness
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33. MySQL
Cluster
7.4
–
Enhanced
ac?vity
repor?ng
• ndbinfo.operations_per_fragment ac?vity
counters
for
each
fragment
replica,
for
each
table
and
index
• PK
&
scan
access
–
requests,
bytes,
rows…
• Exposes
– How
traffic
maps
to
tables
and
indices
– Query
execu?on,
use
of
indexes
etc.
– LDM
and
node
imbalances
– Hotspots
and
scan
overloads
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34. When to Consider MySQL Cluster
l Scalability
demands
l Sharding
for
write
performance?
l Latency
demands
l Cost
of
each
millisecond?
l Up?me
requirements
l Cost
per
minute
of
down?me?
l Failure
versus
maintenance?
l Applica?on
agility
l Developer
languages
and
frameworks?
l SQL
or
NoSQL?
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35. General
Usage
Considera?ons
• MySQL
Cluster
is
designed
for
– Short
transac?ons
– Many
parallel
transac?ons
• U?lize
simple
access
pa~erns
for
high
running
transac?ons
– Use
efficient
scans
and
batching
interfaces
– AQL
gives
huge
performance
in
JOIN
opera?ons
– MySQL
Cluster
7.4
speeds
up
table
scans
• Storage
engine
configurable
for
each
table…InnoDB
or
NDB
MySQL
Cluster
Evalua?on
Guide
h~p://mysql.com/why-­‐mysql/white-­‐papers/mysql_cluster_eval_guide.php
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36. MySQL
Cluster
Carrier
Grade
Edi?on
(CGE)
MySQL
Cluster
CGE
MySQL
Cluster
Manager
MySQL
Enterprise
Scalability
MySQL
Enterprise
Audit
MySQL
Enterprise
Security
Oracle
Premier
Life?me
Support
Oracle
Product
Cer?fica?ons
MySQL
Enterprise
Mornitor
MySQL
Workbench
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37. Enhancing
DevOps
Agility,
Reducing
Down?me
Automated
Management
• Start
/
Stop
node
or
whole
cluster
• On-­‐Line
Scaling
• On-­‐Line
Reconfigura?on
• On-­‐Line
Upgrades
• On-­‐Line
Backup
&
Restore
• Import
Running
Cluster
Self-­‐Healing
• Node
monitoring
• Auto-­‐recovery
extended
to
SQL
+
mgmt
nodes
HA
Opera?ons
• Cluster-­‐wide
configura?on
consistency
• Persistent
configura?ons
• HA
Agents
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38. Without
MySQL
Cluster
Manager
• 1
x
preliminary
check
of
cluster
state
• 8
x
ssh
commands
per
server
• 8
x
per-­‐process
stop
commands
• 4
x
scp
of
config
files
(2
x
mgmd
&
2
x
mysqld)
• 8
x
per-­‐process
start
commands
• 8
x
checks
for
started
and
re-­‐joined
processes
• 8
x
process
comple?on
verifica?ons
• 1
x
verify
comple?on
of
the
whole
cluster.
• Excludes
manual
edi?ng
of
each
configura?on
file.
• Total:
46
commands
– 2.5
hours
of
a~ended
opera?on
With
MySQL
Cluster
Manager
mcm> upgrade cluster
--package=7.4 mycluster;
• Total:
1
Command
-­‐
– Una~ended
Opera?on
Somware
Upgrade
–
example
of
benefits
of
MCM?
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39. MCM:
Upgrade
Cluster
mcm> upgrade cluster
--package=7.4 mycluster;
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40. MySQL
Cluster
Manager
1.3.3
GA
“Unmanaged”
produc?on
Cluster
mcm> create cluster --import
mcm> import config [--dryrun]
mcm> import cluster[--dryrun]
Cluster
now
managed
by
MCM
Import
a
running
Cluster
into
MCM
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41. Oracle
Premier
Support
for
MySQL
• Straight from the Source
• Largest Team of MySQL Experts
• Backed by MySQL Developers
• Forward Compatible Hot Fixes
• MySQL Maintenance Releases
• MySQL Support in 29 Languages
• 24/7/365
• Unlimited Incidents
• Knowledge Base
• MySQL Consultative Support
Rely
on
The
Experts
-­‐
Get
Unique
Benefits
"The
MySQL
support
service
has
been
essen?al
in
helping
us
with
troubleshoo?ng
and
providing
recommenda?ons
for
the
produc?on
cluster,
Thanks."
-­‐-­‐
Carlos
Morales
–
Playfulplay.com
Only From
Oracle
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42. Evaluate MySQL Cluster CGE
• Navigate to
http://edelivery.oracle.com/ and
step through (selecting “MySQL
Database” as the Product Pack)
• Select MySQL Cluster Manager
30-­‐Day
Trial
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43. Next
Steps
Learn
More
• www.mysql.com/cluster
• Authen?c
MySQL
Curriculum:
h~p://oracle.com/educa?on/mysql
Try
it
Out
• dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/
Let
us
know
what
you
think
• clusterdb.com
• @clusterdb
• forums.mysql.com/list.php?25
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