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Small Data: Storage For The Rest Of Us
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Andrew Godwin
May 26, 2015
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Small Data: Storage For The Rest Of Us
A talk I gave at PyWaw Summit 2015.
Andrew Godwin
May 26, 2015
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Transcript
Andrew Godwin @andrewgodwin SMALL DATA STORAGE FOR THE REST OF
US
Andrew Godwin Hi, I'm Django Core Developer Senior Engineer at
Far too many hobbies
BIG DATA What does it mean?
BIG DATA What does it mean? What is 'big'?
1,000 rows? 1,000,000 rows? 1,000,000,000 rows? 1,000,000,000,000 rows?
Scalable designs are a tradeoff: NOW LATER vs
Small company? Agency? Focus on ease of change, not scalability
You don't need to scale from day one But always
leave yourself scaling points
Rapid development Continuous deployment Hardware choice Scaling 'breakpoints'
Rapid development It's all about schema change overhead
Explicit Schema ID int Name text Weight uint 1 2
3 Alice Bob Charles 76 84 65 Implicit Schema { "id": 342, "name": "David", "weight": 44, }
Silent Failure { "id": 342, "name": "David", "weight": 74, }
{ "id": 342, "name": "Ellie", "weight": "85kg", } { "id": 342, "nom": "Frankie", "weight": 77, } { "id": 342, "name": "Frankie", "weight": -67, }
Continuous deployment It's 11pm. Do you know where your locks
are?
Add NULL and backfill 1-to-1 relation and backfill DBMS-supported type
changes
Hardware choice ZOMG RUN IT ON THE CLOUD
VMs are TERRIBLE at IO Up to 10x slowdown, even
with VT-d.
Memory is king Your database loves it. Don't let other
apps steal it.
Adding more power goes far Especially with PostgreSQL or read-only
replicas
Scaling Breakpoints
Sharding point Datasets paritioned by primary key
Vertical split Entirely unrelated tables
Denormalisation It's not free!
Consistency leeway Can you take inconsistent views?
Load Shapes
Read-heavy Write-heavy Large size
Read-heavy Write-heavy Large size Wikipedia TV show website Minecraft Forums
Amazon Glacier Eventbrite Logging
Read-heavy Write-heavy Large size Offline storage Append formats In-memory cache
/ flat files Many indexes Fewer indexes
Extremes
Extreme Reads Heavy Replication Extreme Writes Sacrifice ordering or consistency
Extreme Size Sacrifice query time
Extreme Longevity Flash in cold storage Extreme Survivability Rad-hardened Flash
Extreme Auditability True append only storage
SSDs Magnetic Tape Hard Drives Consumer Flash CDs/DVDs Long-life Flash
Metal-Carbon DVDs 3-6 months 5-10 years 3-5 years 100+ years Approximate time to bit flip, unpowered at room temperature
Big Data isn't one thing It depends on type, size,
complexity, throughput, latency...
Focus on the current problems Future problems don't matter if
you never get there
Efficiency and iterating fast matters The smaller you are, the
more time is worth
Good architecture affects product You're not writing a system in
a vacuum
Thanks. Andrew Godwin @andrewgodwin