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John Nunemaker
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MongoDB for Analytics
Presented at MongoSF on May 4th, 2012.
John Nunemaker
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Transcript
GitHub John Nunemaker MongoSF 2012 May 4, 2012 MongoDB for
Analytics A loving conversation with @jnunemaker
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Background How hernias can be good for you
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1 month Of evenings and weekends
1 year Since public launch
13 tiny servers 2 web, 6 app, 3 db, 2
queue
7-8 Million Page views per day
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Implementation Imma show you how we do what we do
baby
Doing It (mostly) Live No aggregate querying
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get('/track.gif') do track_service.record(...) TrackGif end
class TrackService def record(attrs) message = MessagePack.pack(attrs) @client.set(@queue, message) end
end
class TrackProcessor def run loop { process } end def
process record @client.get(@queue) end def record(message) attrs = MessagePack.unpack(message) Hit.record(attrs) end end
http://bit.ly/rt-kestrel
class Hit def record site.atomic_update(site_updates) Resolution.record(self) Technology.record(self) Location.record(self) Referrer.record(self) Content.record(self)
Search.record(self) Notification.record(self) View.record(self) end end
class Resolution def record(hit) query = {'_id' => "..."} update
= {'$inc' => {}} update['$inc']["sx.#{hit.screenx}"] = 1 update['$inc']["bx.#{hit.browserx}"] = 1 update['$inc']["by.#{hit.browsery}"] = 1 collection(hit.created_on) .update(query, update, :upsert => true) end end end
Pros
Pros Space
Pros Space RAM
Pros Space RAM Reads
Pros Space RAM Reads Live
Cons
Cons Writes
Cons Writes Constraints
Cons Writes Constraints More Forethought
Cons Writes Constraints More Forethought No raw data
http://bit.ly/rt-counters http://bit.ly/rt-counters2
Time Frame Minute, hour, month, day, year, forever?
# of Variations One document vs many
Single Document Per Time Frame
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{ "t" => 336381, "u" => 158951, "2011" => {
"02" => { "18" => { "t" => 9, "u" => 6 } } } }
{ '$inc' => { 't' => 1, 'u' => 1,
'2011.02.18.t' => 1, '2011.02.18.u' => 1, } }
Single Document For all ranges in time frame
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{ "_id" =>"...:10", "bx" => { "320" => 85, "480"
=> 318, "800" => 1938, "1024" => 5033, "1280" => 6288, "1440" => 2323, "1600" => 3817, "2000" => 137 }, "by" => { "480" => 2205, "600" => 7359,
"600" => 7359, "768" => 4515, "900" => 3833, "1024"
=> 2026 }, "sx" => { "320" => 191, "480" => 179, "800" => 195, "1024" => 1059, "1280" => 5861, "1440" => 3533, "1600" => 7675, "2000" => 1279 } }
{ '$inc' => { 'sx.1440' => 1, 'bx.1280' => 1,
'by.768' => 1, } }
Many Documents Search terms, content, referrers...
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[ { "_id" => "<oid>:<hash>", "t" => "ruby class variables",
"sid" => BSON::ObjectId('<oid>'), "v" => 352 }, { "_id" => "<oid>:<hash>", "t" => "ruby unless", "sid" => BSON::ObjectId('<oid>'), "v" => 347 }, ]
Writes {'_id' => "#{sid}:#{hash}"}
Reads [['sid', 1], ['v', -1]]
Growth Don’t say shard, don’t say shard...
Partition Hot Data Currently using collections for time frames
Bigger, Faster Server More CPU, RAM, Disk Space
Users Sites Content Referrers Terms Engines Resolutions Locations Users Sites
Content Referrers Terms Engines Resolutions Locations
Partition by Function Spread writes across a few servers
Users Sites Content Referrers Terms Engines Resolutions Locations
Partition by Server Spread writes across a ton of servers,
way down the road, not worried yet
GitHub Thank you!
[email protected]
John Nunemaker MongoSF 2012 May 4,
2012 @jnunemaker