Slides: NoSQL Data Modeling Using JSON Documents – A Practical Approach

NoSQL Data Modeling Using JSON Documents –
A Practical Approach
David Segleau
Dir.Technical Product Marketing
Couchbase

©2016 Couchbase Inc. 2
About the speaker – David Segleau
David Segleau
DirectorTechnical Product Marketing
Couchbase (since Nov 2015)
Experience:
- Database guy
- Couchbase, Oracle, Sleepycat, Informix, Illustra,Teradata
- Tech Marketing,VP Eng, Prod Mgmt, QA, Support,Training, Docs
- Technology is only useful when it’s deployed
- Expertise:
- Database server technology, RDBMS, and NoSQL

Today’s agenda
§ What is Couchbase?
§ Why NoSQL?
§ Identifying the right application
§ Modeling your data
§ Accessing your data
§ Migrating your data
§ Q & A

What is Couchbase?
Couchbase delivers the Data Platform for the Digital Economy
• Products: Couchbase Server & Couchbase Mobile
• Open source NoSQL, JSON document database
• Founded 2010
• 500+ enterprise customers, including 20+ Fortune 100
UNIFIED ADMINISTRATION
UNIFIED PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
Data Query Index SearchMobileReplication Analytics
{N1QL}

Who is using Couchbase?
6 of the top 10
ECOMMERCE
COMPANIES
IN THE US
3 of the 3
GDS COMPANIES
3 of the 10
AIRLINES
6 of the top 10
US & EUROPEAN
BROADCAST
COMPANIES
6 of the top 10
ONLINE CASINO
GAMING
COMPANIES
6 of the top 10
FIN SERVICES
COMPANIES
IN THE US

Who is using Couchbase?
§ Gannett, publisher of 90+ media properties, replaced relational database
technology with NoSQL to power its digital publishing platform.
§ eBay, with over 2 billion page views per day, uses Couchbase + RDBMS for
their Listing cache, and Couchbase as database of record forToken
management.
§ Cars.com, with over 30 million visits per month, replaced SQL Server with
NoSQL to store customer and vehicle data.
§ Marriott deployed NoSQL to modernize its hotel reservation system that
supports $38 billion in annual bookings.
§ Equifax uses Couchbase to generate insights from historic credit data,
leveraging the JSON documents to represent complex data objects without
normalization.

What is NoSQL?
§ No SQL?
§ Not only SQL?
üNon relational
§ Distributed (most)
– Scaled out, not up
• Elasticity and commodity hardware
– Partitioned and replicated
• Scalability, performance, availability
§ Schema-less (most)
– Flexible model
– JSON (some)
§ Multi-model
– Key-value & Document
– Columnar & Graph
– Graph & Key-value

Why are they using NoSQL?
Technology Drivers
§ Customers are going online
§ The internet is connecting everything
§ Big Data is getting bigger
§ Applications are moving to the cloud
§ The world has gone mobile
Technical Needs
§ Develop with agility
– Flexibility + Simplicity
– Easier + Faster
§ Operate at any scale
– Elasticity + Availability
– Performance at scale
– Always-on, global deployment
Business Needs
§ Innovate and compete
– Faster time to market
– Reduced costs (operational + hardware)
– Increased revenue

NoSQL vs. RDBMS
§ Replace or Complement? à It depends
– Replace: NoSQL is often the operational
database of record
– Complement: NoSQL adds perf, scale, and
availability to legacy RDBMS
§ Most customers use RDBMS and NoSQL
§ NoSQL is adding RDBMS features
– Security, Query Language, Analytics
§ RDBMS is adding NoSQL features
– Sharding, JSON, Distributed Processing

Why migrate from an RDBMS to NoSQL?
§ Easier to scale
3 nodes to 100s, 1 data center to many, commodity hardware
§ Better performance
Integrated caching, memory-optimized indexes, memory-based replication
§ Up to 40x lower cost
Open source, subscription-based, per instance (not per core)
§ Greater agility
JSON-based data model, SQL-based query language
§ Cross-platform
Runs onWindows or Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, etc.)

How do you get started?
1. Identify the right application
2. Model your data
3. Access your data
4. Migrate your data
5. Q&A

Identifying the right application

Identifying the right application
Have one or more of the following characteristics or requirements:
ü Innovate and iterate faster
ü Send and receive JSON
ü Provide low latency at any throughput
ü Support many concurrent users
ü Supports users anywhere and everywhere
ü Be available 24x7
ü Store terabytes of data
ü Read and write to multiple data centers
Service
RDBMS
Service Service
NoSQL
Application
Examples:
Ø High performance, high availability caching service
Ø Independent application with a narrow scope
Ø Logical or physical service within a large application
Ø Global service that powers multiple applications

Model your data

Demystifying terminology
Relational NoSQL (Couchbase)
Failover Cluster Cluster
Availability Group Cluster
Database Bucket
Table Bucket
Row (Tuple) Document (JSON)
Primary Key Object ID
IDENTITY or Sequence Counter
IndexedView View
SQL N1QL

Data Modeling Approaches
NoSQL
Relaxed Normalization
schema implied by structure
fields may be empty, duplicate, or missing
Relational
Required Normalization
schema enforced by DB
same fields in all records
• Minimize data inconsistencies (one item = one location)
• Reduced duplicated data
• Preserve storage resources
• Optimized based on access patterns
• Flexible, based on application requirements
• Supports clustered architecture
• Reduced server overhead

What and Why JSON?
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• What is JSON?
– Schema flexibility
– Lightweight data interchange format
– Based on JavaScript
– Programming language independent
– Field names must be unique
• Why JSON?
– Less verbose
– Can represent Objects and Arrays
(including nested documents)
No impedance mismatch between a JSON Document and a Java Object

Modeling your data: Fixed vs. self-describing schema

Modeling your data:The flexibility of JSON
Same document type,
Different fields
• Different types
• Optional
• On demand
Tip: Add a version field to track changes.
{“docType”: “user”, “docVersion”: “1”, …}
{“docType”: “user”, “docVersion”: “2”, …}

Modeling your data: Changing the data model
Relational database
• Modify the database schema
• Modify the application code (e.g., Java)
• Modify the interface (e.g., HTML5/JS)
Document database
• Modify the interface (e.g., HTML5/JS)

Modeling your data: Object IDs
Best Practices
• Natural Keys
• Human Readable
• Deterministic
• Semantic
Examples
• author::shane
• author::shane::blogs
• blog::nosql_fueled_hadoop
• blog::nosql_fueled_hadoop::comments
What about identity columns?
1. Document<Long> nextAuthorIdDoc = bucket.counter(“authorIdCounter”, 1);
2. Long nextAuthorId = nextAuthorIdDoc.content();
3. String authDocId = “author::” + nextAuthorId; // author::101
Tip: Increment the counter by 10, 20, etc. instead of doing it for every insert.

Modeling your data: Relationships
Author
Blog (FK)Blog (FK)
Comment (FK) Comment (FK)
Author (FK x2)
BlogBlog (FK x2)
Comment Comment
Bottom up/”BelongsTo” Top down/”Has”

Modeling your data: Relationships - Related or Nested

Modeling your data: Strategies and best practices
If … Then …
Relationship is one-to-one or one-to-many Store related data as nested objects
Relationship is many-to-one or many-to-many Store related data as separate documents
Data reads are mostly parent fields Store children as separate documents
Data reads are mostly parent + child fields Store children as nested objects
Data writes are mostly parent or child (not both) Store children as separate documents
Data writes are mostly parent and child (both) Store children as nested objects

Modeling your data: Strategies and best practices
§ Are there a lot of concurrent writes, continuous updates?
§ Store children as separate documents
Blog
§ Thread
§ Comment
§ Comment
§ Thread
§ Comment
§ Comment
Blog
{
“docType”: “blog”,
“author”: “author::shane”,
“title”: “Couchbase Wins”,
“threads”: [
“blog::couchbase_wins::threads::001”,
“blog::couchbase_wins::threads::002”
}
Thread
{
“docType”: “thread”,
“comments”: [
{
“visitor”: “Brendan Bond”,
“text”: “This blog is amazing!”
“replies”: [
{
“user”: “Dustin Johnson”,
“text”: “No, it is not.”
}]
}
}

Some JSON Design Choices
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• Couchbase Server neither enforces nor validates for any particular document
structure
• Choices that impact JSON document design:
– Single Root Attributes vs. Document type
– Objects vs. Arrays
– Array ElementTypes
– Timestamp Formats
– Property Names
– Empty and Null PropertyValuesVS Missing Properties
– JSON Schema Options
• See "Agile document modeling and data structures“ from Couchbase
Connect16 On-Demand Recordings

Access your data

Accessing your data: Options
Key-Value
(CRUD)
N1QL
(Query)
Views
(Query)
Documents
Indexes MapReduce
FullText
(Search)
Geospatial
(Search)
We’ll focus on N1QL ]for now.
Indexes MapReduce

Accessing your data – N1QL queries: Capabilities
Feature SQL N1QL
JOIN ✔ ✔
TRANSFORM ✔ ✔
FILTER ✔ ✔
AGGREGATE ✔ ✔
SORT ✔ ✔
SUBQUERIES ✔ ✔
PAGINATION ✔ ✔
OPERATORS ✔ ✔
FUNCTIONS ✔ ✔

Accessing your data: N1QL queries – referenced data

Accessing your data: N1QL queries – nested data

Accessing your data: N1QL queries – CRUD

Accessing your data: N1QL queries – indexes
Simple
Compound
Functional
Partial

Couchbase Index Options
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IndexType Description
1 Primary Index Index on the document key on the whole bucket
2 Simple Index Index on the key-value or document-key
3 Composite Index Index on more than one key-value
4 Functional Index Index on function or expression on key-values
5 Partial Index Index subset of items in the bucket -- usesWHERE clause
6 Array Index Index individual elements of the arrays
7 Memory Optimized
Index
Index that is pinned in memory – defined when the cluster is configured
8 Covering Index Query able to resolve the query 100% within the index
9 Duplicate Index Ability to create a copy of the index on specific nodes within the cluster,
thereby providing load balancing and failover – usesWITH { “nodes”: } clause

Accessing your data: Indexing Considerations
Relational Couchbase
Indexes are synchronous, index & data are in
sync
Indexes are asynchronous, index updates lag
behind the data, application specifies read
consistency
Indexes slow down write operations Indexes do not affect write throughput
Index load balancing for queries can only be
implemented in the application
Index load balancing for queries is automatic,
based on index signature
Indexes contend with other memory usage
Memory Optimized indexes are pinned in
memory and provides low-latency, high
mutation throughput

Understanding your Query Plan: Explain
§ EXPLAIN shows the query plan, i.e exact steps how N1QL
plans to execute the query
cbq> EXPLAIN INSERT INTO default VALUES ("1", { "make" : "Toyota"});
"plan": {
"#operator": "Sequence",
"~children": [
{
"#operator": "ValueScan",
"values": "[["1", {""make"": "Toyota"}]]"
},
{
"#operator": "Parallel",
"maxParallelism": 1,
"~child": {
"#operator": "Sequence",
"~children": [
{
"#operator": "SendInsert",

Accessing your data: Strategies and best practices
Concept Strategies & Best Practices
Key-Value Operations provide the best
possible performance
• Create an effective key naming strategy
• Create an optimized data model
Incremental MapReduce (Views) are well
suited to aggregation
• Ideal for large data sets
• Data set can be used to create complex
view indexes
N1QL queries provide the most flexibility –
everything else
• Query data regardless of how it is modeled
• Remember to create secondary indexes,
leverage covering indexes where possible

Migrate your data

So many options! Remember the KISS principle
1) Identify the requirements
• ETL vs. Data cleanse vs. Data enrichment
• Duration vs. Resources
• Data governance
2) Pick your strategy
• Batch vs. Incremental
• Single threaded vs. multi-threaded
3) Pick your tools
• Data migration tools (Informatica, Looker,
Talend)
• BYO-tool (PHP & Python scripts, Hadoop, Spark)
• KISS with Couchbase
• Export to CVS; Import as documents; Use
N1QL to transform & insert into new
bucket
• Use SQL to transform & export; Insert into
Couchbase
• Best Practices
• Align with your data model
• Plan for failure (bad source data, hardware
failure, resource limitations)
• Ensure interruptible, restartable, logged,
predictable

How can you sync NoSQL and relational?
§ 1. Application Code (Manual)
§ 2. Replication (Automatic)
– From NoSQL to relational
– From relational to NoSQL
Couchbase
Kafka
Queue
Producer Consumer RDBMSDCP
Stream
RDBMS Handler CouchbaseGoldenGate
https://github.com/mahurtado/CouchbaseGoldenGateAdapter

Data Modeling Best Practices Recap
• Pick the right application
• Focus on SOA, application/use case specific
• Drive data model from data access patterns
• Use Document type,Versionid
• Create optimized, understandable keys
• Weigh nested, referenced or mixed designs
• Add indexes: Simple, Compound, Functional, Partial, Array, Covering, Memory
Optimized
• Match the data access method to requirements
• N1QL, Key-value,Views,
• Proof of Concept
• Focus, Success Criteria, Review Architecture

Questions?

Want to learn more?
Getting Started guide:
http://www.couchbase.com/get-started-developing-nosql
Download Couchbase software:
http://www.couchbase.com/nosql-databases/downloads
Free OnlineTraining
http://training.couchbase.com/online
“Why NoSQL” white paper
http://www.couchbase.com/nosql-resources/why-nosql

Additional Resources
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§ General Docs: http://docs.couchbase.com
§ Developer Portal: http://developer.couchbase.com
§ Couchbase Labs: https://github.com/couchbaselabs
§ Query Portal: http://query.couchbase.com
§ Sample Applications:
§ https://github.com/couchbaselabs?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=try
§ https://github.com/couchbaselabs?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=beer
§ Blog: http://blog.couchbase.com
§ Forum: http://forums.couchbase.com

Additional Resources – Data Modeling
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Webinar:The Why,When, and How of NoSQL: A Practical Approach
Webinar: Relational to NoSQL: How to Get Started from SQL Server
Presentation: Data Modeling with Couchbase Server
Connect16 On Demand Recordings
• Agile document modeling and data structures
• Migrating from relational – Data modeling and access
• LINQing to data: Easing the transition from SQL
• Tuning for Performance: Indexes and Queries
Documentation: Data Modeling with JSON
Training class: CD210 Couchbase NoSQL Data Modeling, Querying, andTuning Using
N1QL

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