OpenStack Trove and DBaaS: Impedance Match?

Introduction Fred Dalrymple EDB, product manager, Postgres Plus Cloud Database Representing one database provider s perspective of Trove http://www.enterprisedb.com @enterprisedb @fred_dalrymple Amrith Kumar Tesora, Founder and CTO Representing Trove s perspective http://www.tesora.com @tesoracorp @amrithkumar 2014 EnterpriseDB Corporation. All rights reserved. 2

About OpenStack Trove Trove is an open source project providing a consistent API and functionality for provisioning SQL and NoSQL databases Applications connect directly to the database, Trove is not in the data path Trove orchestrates cloud and database cluster functionality, such as Scale up instances Create replicas Perform backups 2014 EnterpriseDB Corporation. All rights reserved. 3

About EDB Postgres Plus Cloud Database Postgres Plus Cloud Database [PPCD]: Deploys clusters of Postgres databases Provides provisioning and cloud scalability Offers a RESTful management API These characteristics are shared with Trove, but EDB considers them product differentiators and customer benefits PPCD is available on OpenStack and on Amazon Web Services (with more cloud providers to come) 2014 EnterpriseDB Corporation. All rights reserved. 4

Trove Weaknesses EDB Perspective Still maturing, particularly for cloud scaling capabilities Trove is only available for OpenStack and doesn t (yet) solve the bigger management challenge: Enterprises need to manage all deployment choices, including hybrid and public clouds from different providers Trove functionality overlaps DBaaS solutions that are already cloudified 2014 EnterpriseDB Corporation. All rights reserved. 5

EnterpriseDB Perspective Trove scales to different databases in one cloud platform, while PPCD scales to different cloud platforms The customer benefits of PPCD s better provisioning and cloud functionality are Either hidden by Trove s current implementation (will change in the longer term) Or EDB must perform significant work to preserve our customer benefits within a Trove-compatible approach (whatever that means) At the same time, Trove increases the time-to-market, and competition, from databases not yet cloudified 2014 EnterpriseDB Corporation. All rights reserved. 6

Tesora s Perspective Enterprises use many databases, some SQL, some NoSQL Trove supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, Vertica, DB2, MongoDB, Cassandra, Couchbase, Redis, Tesora s Trove also supports Oracle and soon SQL Server A common set of API s for all databases is very valuable to users and ops Trove is in production at scale; publicly announced users include HP, Rackspace, ebay. Several financial services companies too! 2014 EnterpriseDB Corporation. All rights reserved. 7

Tesora s Perspective Tesora and EDB have a joint customer! Tesora is (working with EnterpriseDB) adding PPAS support to Trove including Replication and Failover, Clustering, Backup and Restore, Scale up and scale down Things that Trove already does for many databases! If you use exactly one database in your company (but many clouds), PPCD is a much better answer But if you use more than one database, and are using OpenStack, the benefits of Trove are enormous 2014 EnterpriseDB Corporation. All rights reserved. 8

EnterpriseDB Choices Given technology overlaps between PPCD and Trove... Which path should we take? Conform to Trove, but don t expose important features? Extend Trove, but do it unilaterally? Offer the PPCD management API instead (and not provide API interoperability with Trove)? Eliminate PPCD native cloud functionality in favor of Trove? Generalize PPCD to become a Trove implementation? 2014 EnterpriseDB Corporation. All rights reserved. 9