MySQL for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

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MySQL For SaaS
Raise Customer Satisfaction,
Lower Costs and Risk with MySQL
Mario Beck, Principal Sales Consultant
Claudiu Moldovan , MySQL Account Manager
15-Februar-2016

Das MySQL Team
Tomica Mozina- MySQL Field Manager
Germany, Central & Eastern Europe
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Tel.: +43 6648103111
Ana Ignat, MySQL Account Manager Germany
ana.ignat@oracle.com
Tel: +49 8914301640
Claudiu Moldovan, MySQL Account Manager Germany
claudiu.moldovan@oracle.com
Tel:+49 6103397030
Mario Beck, Principal Sales Consultant
mario.beck@oracle.com
Tel:+493312007334
Mihai Chertes, MySQL Account Manager Austria
mihai.chertes@oracle.com
Tel:+40 213679398

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Program
1. SaaS is HOT!
2. MySQL and SaaS
- New features in MySQL that are useful for SaaS
3. How to meet SLAs with MySQL
4. How to comply with security and privacy
regulations and standards

SaaS or Hosting?
• SaaS looks like “hosting” but is subtly different…
• Traditional hosting:
– Perpetual license with additional support and hosting fees (Capex / Opex)
– Usually 1 hosted installation per license
• SaaS:
– Typically subscription-based and not license ownership (Opex only)
– Easy procurement with pay-as-you-go options often available
– Often configured for multi-tenancy to maximize the use of infrastructure
– Quickly becoming a favorite for many vendors and customers

• SaaS was $49 bn in 2014 and will more than double within 5 years to $113
bn in 2019, with a CAGR of 18.3%.
• SaaS is growing over ten times faster than traditional on-premise software.
• Nearly 19% of the overall applications market was SaaS in 2014.
• By 2019, SaaS will be 29% of application market.
• 23 of the top 25 ISVs are also among the top 100 SaaS vendors.
• Salesforce.com, a SaaS pure-play, is one of the 10 largest software vendors.
Source: IDC 8/2015
SaaS is Hot

• Meeting customers SaaS criteria...
– Vendor Experience and Reliability
– Data Security, Protection and and Service Levels
– Performance and Scalability
– Manageability, Flexibility
– Cost-effectiveness
The Biggest Challenge For SaaS Vendors

• ... when applied to a service
– Comprised of application AND software and hardware platforms, IT
services and operations, security, databases, etc.
– Most components outside the software vendors’ core competencies
– Customers hold SaaS vendors accountable for all - with long, complex
SLAs
The Biggest Challenge For SaaS Vendors

MySQL helps SaaS

Never Feel Alone With MySQL
• Largest Ever Team of MySQL Experts
• Backed by MySQL Developers
• Forward Compatible Hot Fixes
• 24/7/365 in 29 languages
• Unlimited Incidents
• Knowledge Base
• MySQL Consultative Support
Rely on the experts!

Far From Alone When Using MySQL
MySQL: Most popular Open Source database in the Cloud

Need MySQL Delivers
Customers’ demands
• High performance and scalability
• High availability – up to five nines
• Highly reliable and fault-tolerant
• Data protection and security
Low TCO
• Low cost (licensing, hardware, etc.)
• Low or zero admin
• Performance & scalability on commodity hardware
• Flexibility – Multi-Platform & Language,
• No DB migration: Basic Enterprise Editions;
On-premise SaaS
MySQL Delivers For SaaS

MySQL @ Oracle
• 2x more Engineering staff
• 3x more QA staff
• 2x more Support staff
• Releases delivered:
– MySQL 5.5, 5.6, 5.7
– MySQL Cluster 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
– MySQL Fabric
• Commitment to Open Source:
– InnoDB since 2005
– MySQL
– Oracle Linux
– Java
– VirtualBox
– Xen
– Many more...
Oracle is a top Open Source player

MySQL Optimized For SaaS
Hybrid Database
Best of both worlds:
RDMBS and NoSQL
Save Time, Efforts & Costs
Improved manageability
Scalable Foundation for Your Business
Faster database server and horizontal scaling
Enhanced Security
New features and secure defaults
MySQL

Did You Know MySQL Can Do These Things?
• GIS Support with spatial indexes
• Native JSON data type with Indexing support
• Generated columns (a.k.a. functional columns)
• Full-Text Search fully supported
• Native NoSQL memcached API
• Many changes done online
5.7

How MySQL helps to meet SLAs

Got SLA’s?
• Maximize single instance performance:
– Faster queries
– Improve database layout
– Optimize server settings
• Increase total database horse-power by adding new servers
• Constant monitoring to:
– Be alerted immediately of any problem… or prevent them in the first place
– Investigate and correct performance dips
• Fast low-impact backup and restore

With Thread Pool
Without Thread Pool
MySQL 5.6.11
Oracle Linux 6.3, Unbreakable Kernel 2.6.32
4 sockets, 24 cores, 48 Threads
Intel(R) Xeon® E7540 2GHz CPUs
512GB DDR RAM0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
1 4 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192
TransactionsPerSecond
Simultaneous Database Connections
MySQL 5.6 Sysbench OLTP Read/Write
Enable Thread Pool To Sustain Peak Performance
Maximize the utilization of a machine before adding another

0
200.000
400.000
600.000
800.000
1.000.000
1.200.000
8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1.024
QueriesperSecond
Connections
Sysbench OLTP Read Only
MySQL
5.7
MySQL
5.6
MySQL
5.5
1,000,000 Queries/Sec
MySQL Performance By Version
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-8890 v3
4 sockets x 18 cores-HT (144 CPU threads)
2.5 Ghz, 512GB RAM
Linux kernel 3.16

Replication: Scale Performance With More Servers
• One of the most widely used feature of MySQL
• Duplicates database from one master to one or more slaves
• Great way to improve READ performance by scaling out
• Foundation for High-Availability and Data Security
• Can be part of a backup strategy

Replication Used By the Biggest Names

Global Data Shard 1 Shard 2
MySQL Fabric
controller
MySQL RouterServer/Shard State &
Mapping
Global Group HA Group
Coordination
and Control
HA Group
MySQL Fabric: Scaling The Data Center
• High-Availability and automatic Failover
• Sharding management (can also be used to manage data locality)
• Load-balancing

Easy Deployment: A Traditional MySQL Strength
• Easy to procure and install
– Installation steps are simplified in MySQL 5.7
• Bare metal:
– Commodity hardware
– High-end machines (scales very well with high CPU counts for 1M+ QPS)
• Integrates with virtualized environments:
– Public clouds
– Private clouds (ex. OpenStack)
– VM machines and clusters

Provisioning New MySQL Instances
• Docker containers maintained by MySQL
• Recipes available for Chef and Puppet
• Automatic registration to MySQL Enterprise Monitor
• Automated addition to MySQL Fabric HA groups
• Pre-created database accounts
– Authenticate externally to manage accounts centrally
– Use Proxy accounts

Native Support For OpenStack
• OpenStack is the foundation of many clouds, public and private
• MySQL is well integrated with OpenStack:
– It is the database behind Keystone
– It is available as a DBaaS with Trove
• MySQL Fabric can launch new Trove MySQL instances and add
them to HA groups

• Online Backup
– Low impact on the database
• Full and incremental to enable backup strategies
– Point-in-time recovery option available
• Partial backup and restore
– Multi-tenancy: restore a single customer live without affecting the others
• Scale MySQL by adding servers provisioned with a recent backup
On-premise use: compatible with OSB, Tivoli™, NetBackup™
Cloud use: stream to Amazon S/3 and OpenStack Swift
MySQL Enterprise Backup

MySQL Enterprise Monitor
• Complete view of the MySQL environment
• Monitoring and sending alerts
• Replication monitoring
• Backup monitoring
• Integration with Oracle Support
• Also available as an Oracle EM plugin
• Cloud compatible
Necessary for meeting SLAs

Integrated Query Analyzer
• Shows possible problem
queries and provides advice
• Drill down into query
explain plans
• Faster queries can help
meet SLAs
• Optimize to prevent
performance dips
“Pack” more queries per server

How MySQL helps to comply with
security standards and regulations

47%
of companies have experienced a
data breach in the past year.
Source: Ponemon Institute, 2015

• Regulations
– PCI – DSS: Payment Card Data
– HIPAA: Privacy of Health Data
– Sarbanes Oxley: Accuracy of Financial Data
– EU Data Protection Directive: Protection of Personal Data
– Data Protection Act (UK): Protection of Personal Data
• Requirements
– Continuous Monitoring (Users, Schema, Backups, etc)
– Data Protection (Encryption, Privilege Management, etc.)
– Data Retention (Backups, User Activity, etc.)
– Data Auditing (User activity, etc.)
May be required for doing business!
Regulatory Compliance

Enable The Audit Plugin For Compliance
• Helps meet regulatory compliance
– Auditing often a HUGE requirement for
compliance
• Granular configuration
• Format compatible with audit tools:
– Oracle Audit Vault
• Log custom session attributes
– For example, the end-user’s IP address to
link the real user to the database activity

Centralize Data And Application Logs
• Multiple servers can be replicated
to a central one
– Partial replication supported
– Keep some data local, replicate rest
– …especially for data locality policies
• A great way to centralize
application logs
• Run reports on the central server
• Backup the most sensitive data Perfect for MySQL Fabric!

TLS
Open
All Communications Secured

Turn On Database Firewall
• Prevent SQL injection attacks
• Detect unwanted application code changes
• SQL database firewall:
– Filter by query
– Allowed queries can be entered or recorded
– Configurable per user
• Events are logged in Audit Log
• Events are tracked in MySQL Enterprise Monitor

Keep Your Customers’ Data Safe
• 256-bit hashing (SHA256)
• Strong data-at-rest encryption
– Symmetric encryption AES256
– Public-key / asymmetric cryptography
• Key management:
– Generate public and private keys
– Key exchange methods: RSA, DSA, DH
• Single-pass encrypted backup
– Remember: a stolen backup is a stolen database!
Key management is the
cornerstone of data security

In Conclusion, MySQL Great For SaaS!
• Low risk with Oracle behind MySQL
– Oracle has a long term strategy for MySQL
• A One-stop shop database availability and security:
– Performance and scalability
– Monitoring
– Backup
– Security and privacy features (encryption, firewall, and more)
– Support and help available with unlimited incidents

Keep Costs Low With MySQL
• Very competitive pricing model
– Includes all functionality, no extras or add-on fees needed
• Works perfectly on commodity machines, physical or virtual
• Maximize server utilization before adding more servers
• Integrate MySQL with existing infrastructure investments:
– Centralize authentication
– Backup to cloud or existing backup solution
– Use audit logs with popular tools
Lowering costs is a main
driver for going SaaS!

Sharecat Company Overview
Provides supply chain management solutions to oil and
gas operators.
Application
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based solutions with Web
interface, storing and delivering fast access to a large
amount of information necessary for the construction and
the maintenance of oil rigs.
Why MySQL Enterprise Edition?
"MySQL allowed us to build a professional solution to
serve our global clients at low cost. It fulfilled our
requirements extremely well. MySQL just works, it's a very
stable, high performance and cost-effective database. In
addition, we get great service from Oracle."
Tom-Kenneth Fossheim, Chief Technology Officer
Sharecat

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