Capacity planning for your data stores

Colin Charles, Chief Evangelist, Percona Inc. colin.charles@percona.com / byte@bytebot.net

http://bytebot.net/blog/ | @bytebot on Twitter Percona Webminar 15 December 2017

whoami• Chief Evangelist (in the CTO office), Percona Inc

• we make 100% open source tools, enhanced MySQL/MongoDB servers, XtraBackup, TokuDB, work on MyRocks/MongoRocks, Percona Toolkit and many more!

• Founding team of MariaDB Server (2009-2016)

• Formerly MySQL AB/Sun Microsystems

• Past lives include Fedora Project (FESCO), OpenOffice.org

• MySQL Community Contributor of the Year Award winner 2014

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0

• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode

Database, data store, etc.

• Database: 1. a structured set of data held in a computer, especially one that is accessible in various ways. [Google]

• Data store: A data store is a repository for persistently storing and managing collections of data which include not just repositories like databases, but also simpler store types such as simple files, emails etc. [Wikipedia]

Presto, the Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data

• Presto allows querying data where it lives, including Hive, Cassandra, relational databases or even proprietary data stores. A single Presto query can combine data from multiple sources, allowing for analytics across your entire organization.

• Facebook uses Presto for interactive queries against several internal data stores, including their 300PB data warehouse. Over 1,000 Facebook employees use Presto daily to run more than 30,000 queries that in total scan over a petabyte each per day.

Why capacity plan?

Revenue Management

• Cannot sell more than you actually have

• Seat map: theatre, planes

• Rooms: types, quantity

UptimePercentile target Max downtime per year

90% 36 days99% 3.65 days

99.5% 1.83 days99.9% 8.76 hours99.99% 52.56 minutes99.999% 5.25 minutes99.9999% 31.5 seconds

You can start now!

• Start collecting metrics, NOW!

• metric: standard of measurement

• You need your baseline, your traffic patterns

Baseline• How well is your current infrastructure working?

• what is your QPS? QPS before performance degradation? QPS before performance degradation affects user experience?

• What more will you need, in the (near) future, to maintain acceptable performance?

• load that causes failure - alerting? Add/remove capacity, what do you expect? When do you spin up new resources/size new orders?

• How do you manage the resources?

• Iterate!

MySQL world

• Operating System

• vmstat, netstat, df, ps, iostat, uptime

• MySQL

• SHOW [TABLE] STATUS, SHOW PROCESSLIST, INFORMATION_SCHEMA, PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA, slow query log, mytop/innotop

Sharding

• Sharding

• Split your data across multiple nodes

• Sharding alone isn’t enough, you need ability to split reads/writes

• Tools: ProxySQL, Vitess, Tumblr JetPants, Tungsten Replicator

Database specific watch points

• QPS (SELECTs, INSERTs, UPDATEs, DELETEs)

• Open connections

• Lag time between masters/slaves

• Cache hit rates

Bottlenecks?

• Bottleneck: reads or writes?

• High CPU?

• I/O?

• Lag on replicas and the queries seem fine

• Locking?

Context-based metrics• pt-query-digest: https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/

3.0/pt-query-digest.html

• Analyse queries from logs, processlist, tcpdump

• Box Anemometer: https://github.com/box/Anemometer

• Analyse slow query logs to identify problematic queries

• Commercial tools exist for this as well

Percona Monitoring & Management (PMM)

• Query analytics + visualise it (w/sparklines, etc.)

• Metrics monitor: OS & MySQL

• Built on-top of open source: Prometheus, Consul, Grafana, Orchestrator

• Get Docker container for “server”, get agent for “client”

• http://pmmdemo.percona.com/

PMM

Understanding your workload better

• Percona Lab Query Playback

• https://github.com/Percona-Lab/query-playback

• Query Playback is a tool for replaying the load of one database server to another

• --slow-query-log --log-slow-admin-statements --log-slow-verbosity=microtime --long-query-time=0

Load balancing• Do you just pick a random database server?

• Load balancing strategies matter

• Strategy:

• Pick 2 random servers

• Machine has less load?

• Send request

ProxySQL• Connection Pooling &

Multiplexing

• Read/Write Split and Sharding

• Seamless failover (including query rerouting), load balancing

• Query caching

• Query rewriting

• Query blocking (database aware firewall)

• Query mirroring (cache warming)

• Query throttling and timeouts

• Runtime reconfigurable

• Monitoring built-in

ProxySQL comparison• http://www.proxysql.com/compare

Storage capacity planning• Small single server deployment: 3-4x working capacity is not a bad

option

• size of database and data files (/var/lib/mysql)

• size of largest table * 2 (for tmp/sort files)

• size of each local logical backup

• 5% free for OS

• The above may not necessarily make sense for large scale deployments

Prophet• Works by fitting time-series data to get a prediction of how that metric will look in future

• Generalised Additive Model

• Linear or logistic regression + additive model applied to regression

• Paper: https://facebookincubator.github.io/prophet/static/prophet_paper_20170113.pdf

• Tip: have at least a year of data to fit the model (you may miss seasonal effects otherwise)

• Tip: holidays (https://facebookincubator.github.io/prophet/docs/holiday_effects.html)

• Our evaluation: https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/03/20/prophet-forecasting-our-metrics-or-predicting-the-future/

Auto-scaling frameworks• Scalr

• Amazon

• Vertical: grow the instance

• Horizontal: replicas

• EC2: auto scaling + groups

• Amazon RDS Aurora, Google Cloud Spanner, Azure Cosmos DB

If done properly…

Looking ahead• OtterTune: automatically find good settings for a database

configuration - https://github.com/cmu-db/ottertune

• Peloton: self-driving database management system - http://pelotondb.io/

60% reduction in latency, 22-35% better throughput

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ai/tuning-your-dbms-automatically-with-machine-learning/

In conclusion…• Capture the signal: high noise alerting systems fail due to human

psychology

• Revenue management, operations research, management science are good to read

• Always be capturing metrics

• Know your baseline and business requirements

• Shard, load balance appropriately

• Monitor! Be proactive not reactive

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