RealStudio and Cloud Databases Patrick Delaney MCTS – MCITP Panda Technical Services Ltd © Panda Technical Services Ltd

Database Developer/Admin – 14 years (Primarily MS SQL Server) About Me Database Developer/Admin – 14 years (Primarily MS SQL Server) Real Studio – 4 years This Presentation – Cloud Databases 1 - Overview 2 – MS SQL Azure 3 - Xeround © Panda Technical Services Ltd

What is a Cloud Database ? “A database accessible to clients from the cloud and delivered to users on demand via the Internet from a cloud database provider's servers. Also referred to as Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), cloud databases can use cloud computing to achieve optimized scaling, high availability, multi-tenancy and effective resource allocation.” Source: Webopedia © Panda Technical Services Ltd

No Internet – No Database US Patriot Act Potential Slow Speeds Disadvantages Cost! No Internet – No Database US Patriot Act Potential Slow Speeds Unexpected Downtime!! Don't Expect The Full Feature Set © Panda Technical Services Ltd

Disaster Recovery Out Of The Box Advantages Cost! Geo-Location Disaster Recovery Out Of The Box High Availability Out Of The Box Scalability No Infrastructure/Licensing Costs © Panda Technical Services Ltd

Virtual Machine Deployment 2 Deployment Models Virtual Machine Deployment SQL Based Oracle Database IBM DB2 Ingres PostgreSQL MySQL NoSQL Based CouchDB Hadoop Apache Cassandra Neo4J MongoDB Source: Wikipedia! © Panda Technical Services Ltd

Database As A Service (DBAAS) 2 Deployment Models Database As A Service (DBAAS) SQL Based Amazon RDBMS, Xeround (MySQL) Heroku, EnterpriseDB (Postgres) Microsoft SQL Azure (MS SQL) NoSQL Based Amazon DynamoDB Amazon SimpleDB Database.com (SalesForce) Google App Engine (Datastore) CouchDB MongoDB Source: Wikipedia! © Panda Technical Services Ltd

Any combination of the above Pricing Models Data Storage (normally per GB & Pro Rata) Data Transfer (In/Out) Data Processing (normally per hour) Normally charged to a credit card Any combination of the above !! Check For Deals !! © Panda Technical Services Ltd

Pricing Examples Microsoft SQL Azure No Data Transfer Costs Database Size Price Per Database Per Month Up to 100 MB Flat £3.0275 Greater than 100 MB to 1 GB Flat £6.055 Greater than 1 GB to 10 GB £6.055 for first GB £2.422 for each additional GB Greater than 10 GB to 50 GB £27.8530 for first 10 GB £1.2110 for each additional GB Greater than 50 GB to 150 GB £76.293 for first 50 GB £0.6055 for each additional GB No Data Transfer Costs No Data Processing Costs Correct As At 20th February 2012 © Panda Technical Services Ltd

Up to 10MB at no charge. No Geo Location Pricing Examples Xeround FREE: Up to 10MB at no charge. No Geo Location Xeround BASIC: Up to 250MB Starting at $17/month Includes both data size and data throughput. Xeround PRO: Offered in a pay-per-use model. Up To 50 GB – Measured in GB/hour Starting at $75/month Data Transfer (Minimum charge for 0.5GB of data.) Correct As At 12th March 2012 © Panda Technical Services Ltd

Data Sharding What Database Size Limits!! © Panda Technical Services Ltd

Data Federations © Panda Technical Services Ltd

Let's see some of this in action! © Panda Technical Services Ltd

?? Any Questions ?? Conclusion Not a Panacea! Another tool in the toolbox ?? Any Questions ?? © Panda Technical Services Ltd

Thankyou Patrick Delaney www.PandaTechServices.co.uk Pat@PandaTechServices.co.uk 07769 264 890 © Panda Technical Services Ltd