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John Nunemaker
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Transcript
GitHub John Nunemaker MongoChicago 2012 November 12, 2012 MongoDB for
Analytics A loving conversation with @jnunemaker
Background How hernias can be good for you
None
None
1 month Of evenings and weekends
18 months Since public launch
10-15 Million Page views per day
2.7 Billion Page views to date
13 tiny servers 2 web, 6 app, 3 db, 2
queue
requests/sec
ops/sec
cpu %
lock %
Implementation How we do what we do
Doing It (mostly) Live No aggregate querying
None
None
get('/track.gif') do track_service.record(...) TrackGif end
class TrackService def record(attrs) message = MessagePack.pack(attrs) @client.set(@queue, message) end
end
class TrackProcessor def run loop { process } end def
process record @client.get(@queue) end def record(message) attrs = MessagePack.unpack(message) Hit.record(attrs) end end
http://bit.ly/rt-kestrel
class Hit def record site.atomic_update(site_updates) Resolution.record(self) Technology.record(self) Location.record(self) Referrer.record(self) Content.record(self)
Search.record(self) Notification.record(self) View.record(self) end end
class Resolution def record(hit) query = {'_id' => "..."} update
= {'$inc' => {}} update['$inc']["sx.#{hit.screenx}"] = 1 update['$inc']["bx.#{hit.browserx}"] = 1 update['$inc']["by.#{hit.browsery}"] = 1 collection(hit.created_on) .update(query, update, :upsert => true) end end end
Pros
Pros Space
Pros Space RAM
Pros Space RAM Reads
Pros Space RAM Reads Live
Cons
Cons Writes
Cons Writes Constraints
Cons Writes Constraints More Forethought
Cons Writes Constraints More Forethought No raw data
http://bit.ly/rt-counters http://bit.ly/rt-counters2
Time Frame Minute, hour, month, day, year, forever?
# of Variations One document vs many
Single Document Per Time Frame
None
{ "t" => 336381, "u" => 158951, "2011" => {
"02" => { "18" => { "t" => 9, "u" => 6 } } } }
{ '$inc' => { 't' => 1, 'u' => 1,
'2011.02.18.t' => 1, '2011.02.18.u' => 1, } }
Single Document For all ranges in time frame
None
{ "_id" =>"...:10", "bx" => { "320" => 85, "480"
=> 318, "800" => 1938, "1024" => 5033, "1280" => 6288, "1440" => 2323, "1600" => 3817, "2000" => 137 }, "by" => { "480" => 2205, "600" => 7359,
"600" => 7359, "768" => 4515, "900" => 3833, "1024"
=> 2026 }, "sx" => { "320" => 191, "480" => 179, "800" => 195, "1024" => 1059, "1280" => 5861, "1440" => 3533, "1600" => 7675, "2000" => 1279 } }
{ '$inc' => { 'sx.1440' => 1, 'bx.1280' => 1,
'by.768' => 1, } }
Many Documents Search terms, content, referrers...
None
[ { "_id" => "<oid>:<hash>", "t" => "ruby class variables",
"sid" => BSON::ObjectId('<oid>'), "v" => 352 }, { "_id" => "<oid>:<hash>", "t" => "ruby unless", "sid" => BSON::ObjectId('<oid>'), "v" => 347 }, ]
Writes {'_id' => "#{sid}:#{hash}"}
Reads [['sid', 1], ['v', -1]]
Growth Don’t say shard, don’t say shard...
Partition Hot Data Currently using collections for time frames
[ "content.2011.7", "content.2011.8", "content.2011.9", "content.2011.10", "content.2011.11", "content.2011.12", "content.2012.1", "content.2012.2", "content.2012.3",
"content.2012.4", ]
[ "resolutions.2011", "resolutions.2012", ]
Move
Move BigintMove
Move BigintMove MakeYouWannaMove
Move BigintMove MakeYouWannaMove DaMove
Move BigintMove MakeYouWannaMove DaMove SmoothMove
Move BigintMove MakeYouWannaMove DaMove SmoothMove NightMove
Move BigintMove MakeYouWannaMove DaMove SmoothMove NightMove DanceMove
Bigger, Faster Server More CPU, RAM, Disk Space
Users Sites Content Referrers Terms Engines Resolutions Locations Users Sites
Content Referrers Terms Engines Resolutions Locations
Partition by Function Spread writes across a few servers
Users Sites Content Referrers Terms Engines Resolutions Locations
Partition by Server Spread writes across a ton of servers,
way down the road, not worried yet
GitHub Thank you!
[email protected]
John Nunemaker MongoChicago 2012 November 12,
2012 @jnunemaker