Realization of the low cost and high performance MySQL cloud database
Wei Cao, Feng Yu, Jia-Sen Xie · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2014
MySQL is a low cost, high performance, good reliability and open source database product, widely used in many Internet companies. For example, there are thousands of MySQL servers being used in Taobao. Although NoSQL developed very quickly in past two years, and new products emerged in endlessly, but in the actual business application of NoSQL, the requirements to developers are relatively high. Moreover, MySQL has many more mature middleware, maintenance tools and a benign ecological circle, so from this perspective, MySQL dominates in the whole situation, while NoSQL is as a supplement. We (the core system database team of Taobao) have done a lot of work in the filed of MySQL hosting platform, designed and implemented a UMP (Unified MySQL Platform) system, to provide a low cost and high performance MySQL cloud database service.