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John Newton, Founder & CTO Alfresco

@johnnewton

October 2015

DAT309

Scaling Massive Content

Stores with Amazon AuroraAlfresco on AWS

What to expect from the session

• Challenges of scaling to billions of documents

• Architectural approaches of managing data, search, and storage

with Amazon Aurora, Solr, Amazon EBS, and Amazon S3

• The breadth of use cases of content at scale

• How to support user applications that require sub-second response

times

• Moving from large data centers to cost-effective management with

AWS and Amazon Aurora

Alfresco in action

Government

Finance

Manufacturing

Transportation & Utilities

Healthcare Other

Content in dynamic

context

Consumerized search &

discovery

Secure & mobile

collaboration

Invisible Information

Governance

SIMPLE

SMART

Powerful metadata,

rules & relationships

Easy process

creation & analysis

CONTENT PROCESS

Modern & agile

architectureOPEN

Cloud integration,

sync & scale

Open source, open

APIs

Difference

@johnnewton alfresco.com/awsreinvent

Somewhere deep in the Nevada Desert

in a secret underground location

someone is trying to store…

One Billion

Documents!!!

http://www.warnerbros.com/austin-powers-international-man-mystery

Some have tried before … and failed!

We’ll

configure

1 Million

SharePoint

Servers!!!

Digital transformation is driving huge flows of content

Gartner Nexus

PWC 6th Annual Digital IQ Survey, 2014

Digital

Business

Cloud Social

Big DataMobile

Content use cases at scale

Enterprise

Document Library

Loans &

Policies

Claims & Case

Processing

Transaction &

Logistics Records

Research &

Analysis

Real-time

Video

Internet of

Things

Medical &

Personnel Records

Government

Records & Archives

Discovery &

Litigation

Content management applications

Document

Library

Image

Management

File Sync &

Share

Search &

Retrieval

Business

Process

Management

Records

Management

Case

Management

Media

Management

Information

Archiving

What is this

“Content”?!!!

Content vs. data vs. files vs. EFSS

Data Files EFSS Content and ECM

Content architecture as a big data problem

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Files /

RenditionsMetadata

Directory CategoriesRelationships

Indexes

Search

Activities

Security People

APIs

Processes /

Tasks

Rules

Semantics

Types

Content

Object

Access Create – Manage – Distribute – Use

Context

DatabaseDistributed

FSDatabaseSolr /

Elasticsearch

Content at scale in the enterprise

Users at Scale

Concurrency Content Count

Read/Write

Throughput

Geographic

Distribution

Volume Size

The problem with traditional approaches

Provisioning and

Administration

Geographic Distribution Lack of Agility

Lack of Redundancy Lack of Elasticity

It’s enough to get one “fired”

Unique challenges of very large repositories

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Scaling Up

• Clustered Servers

• Clustered Database

• Clustered Indexes

• Read Replicas

Scaling Out

• Sharding

• Federation

• Replication

• Shared Nothing

Content management architecture

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Alfresco Share

Alfresco Repository

Alfresco SOLR

Activiti Workflow

Engine

Database

FS Content

Store

Indexes

S3

Amazon RDS

Amazon Elastic Block Store or Ephemeral

PIOPS EBS

(or Amazon Glacier)

EC2

Content management architecture

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Alfresco Share

Alfresco

Repository

Alfresco SOLR

Activiti

Workflow

Protocols

APIs (CMIS)

Media

Mgmt

Desktop and

Mail ClientMobile App Cloud Sync

Database

FS Content

Store

Indexes

Records

Management

Reports &

Analytics

Reports and

Analytics Server

Media Transform

Services

Transforms

Authentication

Auditing

Rules/Policies

Web Scripts

Scheduled Jobs

Process management architecture

Database ElasticsearchFiles

Amazon EBS

Process

Mining

Activiti EngineTomcat / Jetty

Process

Virtual

Machine

Tasks Processes Jobs

Activiti REST App REST Admin RESTMS Office

Protocol

Activiti

AnalysisAngularJS

Activiti

AppAngularJS

Activiti

AdminAngularJS

MS

Office

Activiti

MobileiOS / Android

Activiti

DesignerEclipse

Scaling in tiers

Alfresco

Transformation Server

Alfresco

Transformation Server

Alfresco Solr

Alfresco Local Repo

(Index Tracking)

Alfresco Solr

Alfresco Local Repo

(Index Tracking)

Alfresco Repository Alfresco Repository

Alfresco Share Alfresco Share

Alfresco Activiti Suite

Alfresco Activiti Suite

Multi-tenant Cloud Service on AWS

RDS

Activities

Route53 (DNS)

S3

ELB

Layer7

solr trans

/share

/alfresco

haproxy

haproxy

varnish

/share

/alfresco

haproxy

/share

/alfresco

haproxy

haproxy

varnish

haproxy

varnish

web nodes

alfresco nodes

solr

solr trans

trans

You can scale

my server any

day, Baby!!!

Data meta-model

A

B

C

D

Folder

Folder

Doc

Docrendition

Class

Type Aspect

Property

Association

Constraint

Child

Association

Folder

Document

contains

name

name

content

Auditable who by

when

rendition

Type

Child Association

Type

Association

Property

Property

Property

Aspect

Model Metadata Organization

1 Billion 15 Billion

Database schema

• Tables

• Indexes

• Concurrency

• Throughput Techniques

• Striping

• Parallelism

• Sharding

Table Size (GB)

alf_child_assoc 448

alf_content_data 149

alf_content_url 202

alf_node 711

alf_node_aspects 217

alf_node_properties 1,524

Amazon Aurora difference

AZ 1 AZ 2

EBSmirror

EBSmirror

Amazon S3

EBS

Standby

InstancePrimary

Instance

AZ 1 AZ 3

Amazon S3

Primary

Instance

AZ 2

Replica

Instance

• Highly available — synchronous vs. asynchronous replication

• Significantly more efficient use of network I/O

• Self-healing, fault-tolerant, instant crash recovery

MySQL with standby Amazon Aurora

async

4/6 quorum

PiTR

Sequential

write

Sequential

writeDistributed

writes

Amazon Elastic

Block Store (EBS)

Modifications required for Aurora

Index and search architecture

Full-Text Query

Metadata Query

Facets & Buckets

Security Filters

Results Processing

Credit: Ryan Tobora

ThinkBig, Teradata

http://thinkbig.teradata.com/solrcl

oud-terminology/

Text Extraction

Metadata Injection

& Path Processing

Shingles

ACL Processing

Results ProcessTerm-hit Highlighting

x 20 instances

Storage Layer

File storage architecture

In Place: AWS Import/Export Snowball

Direct

Streaming

Aurora EBS

Metadata Content

Metadata

Content

Archive Layer

S3 Amazon Glacier

Metadata Content

File

System

Protocols

APIs

Security architecture

Web FilteringEnterprise

Authentication

Access Control

Lists and Caveats

Query Filters and

Object Policies

Do you suppose we

can put it together

with some string and

Scotch Tape?!!

Provisioning VLDB repos

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Cost Benefit

The following are the benefits of moving from the current environment to the proposed

environment:

Performance Moving to a HA (High Availability) environment where there are 2 or more Alfresco servers and

separation of indexes, not only allows for additional processor for each, but also allows for

benefits such as load balancing and failover. As new projects are brought on-board to the

Alfresco solution, a clustered environment ensures that end users will not be effected by any

additional activity in the product, by distributing load appropriately through each node/instance in

the cluster

Scalability By having a HA (High Availability) environment where there are 2 or more Alfresco servers and

separation of indexes, the environment can be scaled appropriately based on demand. This

new architecture allows room to scale the environment to support 2013 and 2014 roadmap

plans while still supporting an environment that will be reliable and robust.

Additionally, this environment support disaster recovery capabilities as well, guaranteeing that in

case of a severe outage, that backups are stored and quick turn around can occur to restore the

environment.

Below is a screenshot of the Customer Deployment Portal in which Stanford will be able to scale

the Alfresco environment seamlessly within a web based UI.

Flexibility This new architecture will also utilize new Cloud Ops tools that will allow increased flexibility in

the administration of the Alfresco environment. This gives Stanford the flexibility to grow or

shrink the different environments based on demand, pricing, or performance. While the need for

flexibility of the environment might be minimal in production, this will be especially advantageous

as Stanford develops on the Alfresco service, and needs to rapidly spin up and down

test/development environments.

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Self-Service The Customer Deployment Portal will be one of the benefits of moving to the proposed

environment. The Customer Deployment Portal is a web based administration tool that allows

Stanford to self-service their environment. Stanford will be able to setup, deploy, change, and

monitor the different AWS environments through a user friendly and intuitive web interface.

This includes control over the number of virtual machines, size of the virtual machines, load

balancers, databases, storage sizes and types, and more.

ContainersDevOps

Data as a ServiceIndexing and

Search as a ServiceFiles as a Service

Rolling Deployment

• Nginx

• HA Proxy

• Varnish

• Alfresco Share

• Alfresco Repo

• Alfresco

Analytics

• Alfresco Media

• Activiti

• Solr

• ActiveMQ

• Transform

• Database

• Storage

• LDAP

• Email Server

• Logs

• Monitoring

Security

Large-scale benchmarking

BM01 User scenarios

BM02 User concurrency on single

node

BM03 Solr Performance

BM04 Concurrent Load and Access

– multi-user

BM05 User Invite and Tenant

Provisioning

BM06 Workflow service

performance

BM07 Workflow API performance

BM08 High concurrency in Multi-

Tenancy

https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Benchmark_Testing_with_Alfresco

https://github.com/AlfrescoBenchmark/alfresco-benchmark

Benchmark Server

Tomcat 7

Rest API

MongoDB

Config Data

Services

MongoDB

Test Data

UI

Benchmark Driver (xN)Benchmark Driver (xN)Benchmark Driver

Tomcat 7 Extras

(Selenium)

Servers / APIs Servers / APIs

Load Balancer

Servers / APIs

Test

Services

Rest API

BM4 test execution environment: 1.2B docs

UI Test x 20 m3.2xlarge Simulate 500 Users• Selenium / Firefox

• 1 hour constant load

• 10 sec think time

UI Test UI Test

Alfresco Alfresco Alfresco x 10 c3.2xlarge Alfresco with Share

and Repo

Solr x 20 c3.8xlarge Solr Solr

Aurora x 1 db.r3.4xlarge

ELB

Sharded Solr Cloud

sites folders files transactions dbSize GB

10,804 1,168,206 1,168,206,000 15,475,064 3,185

Simulate AWS

Import/Export

(in place)

Benchmark results

• Document load rate 1200 per sec

• 4.3 Million per Hour on 10 nodes!

• Load rate consistent beyond 1B

• CPU loads:

• Database: 70-80% in Bulk Load

• Alfresco: ~50%

• Solr: <60%

• CMIS API Calls (OASIS Standard)

• Aurora indexes efficient at 3.2TB

• NAME (=, LIKE) ~ 20ms

• IN_FOLDER (sorted, limited) ~ 160ms

• Sub-second login times and good,

linear responses for other actions

• Open Library: ~3s

• Page Results: <1s

• Navigate to Site: ~1s

• Individual search ~1s

• 500 concurrent search: ~3s response

• CPU loads:

• Database: <10%

• Alfresco: 25-30%

• Solr: 25-30%

No size-related bottlenecks with 1.2 billion documents

Bulk Operations User Operations

AWS

What a difference

3-6 Months

Questionable Scale

Little Redundancy

Lots of $$$

< 30 mins

10x Faster

Elastic, Fault-Tolerant

Open, Cost Effective

ECM ECM ECM

Search Search Search

FS FS FS

Hardware Hardware Hardware

Load Balancer

DR Plan

HSM HSM HSM

ECM ECM ECM

ELB

Alfresco Alfresco Alfresco

Solr Solr Solr

S3

EC2 EC2 EC2

AZ1 AZ2 AZ3

Aurora

EBS

What a difference

3-6 Months

Questionable Scale

Little Redundancy

Lots of $$$

< 30 mins

10x Faster

Elastic, Fault-Tolerant

Open, Cost Effective

Well, what am I

supposed to do

with all this

frickin’

hardware?!!

Future: globally distributed environment

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Distributed FS Distributed FS

Sharding Sharding

Thank you!Vegas, Baby!

Thank you!

What the world

needs now,

is evaluation sheets!

No, not just for some,

But for @johnnewton!

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