January 15, 2013
enStratus is a cloud infrastructure management solution for deploying and managing enterprise-class applications. You can think of enStratus as the enterprise console to cloud computing – a unified solution for managing single or multi-cloud environments. enStratus uses Riak to store a combination of read-heavy and write-intensive data, including machine and state information, and data supporting analytics and audit control.
Previously, enStratus had relied on MySQL as its primary data store, but needed to provide a greater level of write availability and resilience to failure across multiple datacenters. Scaling writes in MySQL had become a bottleneck, and MySQL’s master/slave replication made master nodes a possible single point of failure.
First migrating customer and API data to Riak, enStratus successfully made the switch to Riak’s data model and eventually consistent approach, which favors availability over consistency in the event of node failure or network partition. “As I’ve looked at a number of problem domains from customers and our own systems, you see this pattern where a relational database has been used just because it’s the default… and the reality is that more of the world is eventually consistent than not,” said George Reese, CTO of enStratus.
At our developer conference Ricon, we were lucky to have George speak about migrating from MySQL to Riak, enStratus’ “design for failure” architecture, and how their application is built. George also talks about challenges of moving to a non-relational system, including adjusting to the data model and migration approaches. You can view the video below, or read the full case study here.
Migrating from MySQL to Riak – George Reese, RICON2012 from Riak Technologies on Vimeo.
Want more info on moving from MySQL to Riak? Sign up for our webcast on Thursday, January 24 here or read our whitepaper on moving from relational to Riak.
