Samsung's ARTIK IoT platform used Continuent's active/active MySQL cluster topology to manage its IoT monetization portal serving millions of worldwide devices. ARTIK chose Continuent over AWS Aurora for its availability, disaster recovery, geo-scale capabilities, and cost-effectiveness. Continuent's solution provided high availability, continuous operations across regions, and performance at a reasonable cost with 24/7 support.

1. The MySQL Availability Company
CONTINUENT
AWS Aurora MySQL Replacement
Break Away From Geo-Limitations of AWS Aurora With Multi-Region Tungsten Cloud Databases
Eero Teerikorpi, Founder and CEO
October 14, 2020
“Smooth Sailing!”

2. Continuent
“The MySQL Availability Company”

3. ARTIK Use Case – Geo-Scale MySQL
Samsung ARTIK™ IoT platform delivered
device-to-cloud security for companies to
build, develop and manage secure,
interoperable, and intelligent IoT products
and services for everything from smart homes
to high-tech factories. The ARTIK™ IoT
platform fully integrated with the SmartThings
Cloud.
During this webinar, we’ll discuss how
Samsung, an adopter of Continuent’s
active/active MySQL cluster topology,
managed its IoT monetization portal for
millions of world-wide devices.
Full disclosure: Samsung ARTIK has closed its
operations due to lack of success.

4. Eero Teerikorpi
7-Time Serial Entrepreneur
In the MySQL marketplace since the
beginning (2002)
Father of Continuent Tungsten and
Godfather of Galera (XtraDB Cluster)
Galera is based on Continuent’s first (synchronous)
MySQL clustering solution Emic m/cluster
Officer
(and naturally a Gentleman) Finnish Navy
Sailor
Running a Tight Ship!
“Smooth Sailing!”

5. Where Does Continuent Fit In?
Continuent has witnessed the rise of Open
Source and Cloud Computing since 2004.
We have been at the forefront of the market
need for platform-agnostic, highly-available,
globally-scaling, clustered MySQL databases
that are driving businesses to the cloud today.
Continuent is not the biggest. Never.
We are the best at what we do. Always!
Geo-Scale
MySQL
DBaaS
Cloud
Computing
Open
Source
MySQL

6. ARTIK USE CASE
IoT monetization portal for millions of world-wide devices.

7. Question: Why Did Samsung ARTIK
Choose Continuent?
What do you think were the key reason(s)
that Samsung ARTIK chose to replace AWS Aurora with Continuent?
• Availability
• Disaster Recovery
• Geo-Scale
• Cost
• All of the Above

8. Why Did ARTIK Choose Continuent?
All of the Above

9. ARTIK Challenge
High
Availability
Disaster
Recovery
CostGeo-Scale

10. AWS Aurora Limitations
• Master is single region only
• Failover disconnects application
• Long failover times ( > 30 seconds)
• Application must be read/write aware
• All data stays in AWS
• Database maintenance and schema
changes will cause application outages
• InnoDB engine only
• Not MySQL, ‘MySQL Compatible’
• Proprietary and not open source

11. AWS Aurora vs Tungsten Clustering Scorecard
Top prioritized
use cases
Continuent
Clustering
AWS Aurora with
Read Replica
Local HA
Yes, automatic
failover for primary
and replicas
Yes, 30 seconds with
DNS change
DR (local/
remote)
Yes, local, remote
and global DR are
supported
Failover only, takes
“a few minutes,”
replication breaks
Load balancing
Yes, automatic and
transparent
Supported but
requires application
awareness
Zero downtime
maintenance
Enables both
database, operating
system and
hardware changes
Requires
maintenance
window, downtime

12. AWS Aurora vs Tungsten Clustering Scorecard
Top prioritized
use cases
Continuent
Clustering
AWS Aurora with
Read Replica
Performance
High, built-in load
balancing and
read/write splitting
High performance
but read/write
splitting requires app
awareness
Transparency
Yes, automatic
failover for primary
and replicas
Automatic failover
but applications
disconnect
Deployment Easy to deploy Easy to deploy
Recovery
Fast and simple, local
and cross region
Local recovery
simple, cross region
takes time

13. AWS Aurora vs Tungsten Clustering Scorecard
Top prioritized
use cases
Continuent
Clustering
AWS Aurora with
Read Replica
Monitoring
Full monitoring via
web-based GUI
Full monitoring,
though enhance
monitor is extra
charge
Geo-Scale
Across regions,
availability zones
Only basic read
replicas in AWS
regions
Replication
To most popular
high-performance
NoSQL and data
analytics engines
Basic MySQL
replication only,
manual setup (5.5 or
later)
Support
24/7 with <5 min.
initial response to
urgent support
tickets
Basic support > 12
hours, critical
support extremely
expensive

14. Tungsten Key Benefits vs AWS Aurora
AWS Aurora Continuent Tungsten
Not MySQL, but MySQL
5.6/5.7-compatible
Supports all MySQL versions
(including MariaBD and Percona
Server)
Read Replicas Replicas available for auto
read/write split, fast failover
Distributed back-end file
system
Shared nothing, local filesystem,
full access to local databases
Cross-Region Replication
within AWS
Replicate to any cloud, on prem, or
combination with multiple
primaries
Auto maintenance and
interruptions
Zero downtime maintenance

15. ARTIK Main Challenge – Geo-Scale
Need for High Availability and Continuous
Operations on a Global Scale
Samsung is a global telco company with
several thousand corporate customers and
hundreds of million worldwide users.
Serving an application for a geographically-
distributed audience is a common need
global companies.

16. ARTIK Challenge – Availability
What Is the Key to Success for Availability?
Tungsten Proxy (aka Tungsten Connector) –
The Intelligent MySQL Proxy
Tungsten Proxy allows client MySQL traffic to
be seamlessly routed to another node during
maintenance operations and failovers,
providing maximum control and uptime.
And naturally also Tungsten Manager and
Tungsten Replicator. Manager
Replicator
Manager
Replicator
Manager
Replicator
monitoring&control
Dataservice
Replica ReplicaPrimary

17. ARTIK Challenge – Continuous Operations (DR)
How was the Continuous Operations
achieved?
Active-Active Tungsten Cluster using un-
managed cross-site replicators
All three clusters are truly “active"
Provides fast failover in the event of Data
Center outage: only application servers in
“other” DC need starting and connect through
Applications are read/write aware by use of
RW and RO connect strings, the Tungsten
Proxy configured with Port Based routing
Tungsten Connectors are installed on app
servers
MySQL HA and DR
Active/Active Tungsten Clusters

18. ARTIK Tungsten Dashboard – Geo-Scale with HA/DR

19. ARTIK Tungsten Dashboard – Geo-Scale with HA/DR

20. ARTIK Challenge - Cost
Tungsten Clustering uses an annual
subscription model based on the number of
database nodes.
We do not charge per CPU count or instance
size.
Our pricing is non-linear: the price-per-node
drops significantly as the quantity of nodes
increases.

21. ARTIK Solution – Tungsten Clustering
The benefits Continuent customers achieve with
our Tungsten Clustering solution are:
High-availability, continuous operations, and
performance, at a very reasonable cost level.
Industry’s fastest 24/7 Support by the best MySQL
Replication and Clustering Engineering Team.
Availability
Disaster Recovery
Geo-Scale
Cost
24/7 Support

22. Continuent Products
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard

23. Continuent Products
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard

24. Continuent Products
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard
• Continuous MySQL Operations
• Zero Downtime Maintenance
• Geo-distributed MySQL Clusters
• Multi-Cloud / Hybrid-Cloud MySQL
• Read/Write Splitting with Intelligent Proxy
• Full MySQL Support, No App Changes

25. Tungsten Clustering Key Benefits
Industry Best 24/7 MySQL Customer Service
• Highly Qualified 24/7 support. Our support team member have 15 or more years of MySQL DBA and
Site Reliability Experience
• 24/7 support comes with 1-hour SLA, with response times for urgent requests averaging less than 3
minutes
• MySQL uptime measured in months or years
Cost Savings
• Use the free open-source MySQL for your business-critical needs
• Optimize costs by selecting the most cost-effective cloud environment(s) at any given time
• Eliminate downtime risks and their associated costs, including during maintenance operations (zero-
downtime maintenance operations)
• Reduce DBA time spent on admin and recovery operations, lowering your costs while increasing
reliability.

26. Tungsten Clustering Key Benefits
Continuous MySQL Operations
• MySQL High Availability and Disaster Recovery solution, which provides redundancy within and
across data centers
• Immediate failover for maximum availability and data protection of business-critical MySQL
applications
• Reduce MySQL recovery time from hours or days to mere seconds
• Dashboard provides graphical view and management of all globally distributed MySQL clusters
Zero Downtime MySQL
• Site-level and cross-site failover ensures application availability
• Upgrade hardware, software and data without taking applications offline
• MySQL compatibility means seamless migration of your data and applications

27. Geo-Scale MySQL
Tungsten Clustering Key Benefits
• Load-balance MySQL read operations across multiple slaves, locally and globally
• Geo-distributed MySQL clusters bring data close to your application users for faster response times
• Easily add more MySQL clusters as needed for unlimited scaling, both locally or across the globe
Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud MySQL
• Deploy in the cloud, VM and bare metal environments
• Mix-and-match on-premises, private and public clouds (incl. Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and
Microsoft Azure)
• Easy, seamless migration from cloud to cloud to avoid vendor lock-in in any specific cloud provider
• Withstand node, data center, zone or region failures or outages

28. Tungsten Clustering Key Benefits
Intelligent MySQL Proxy
• Provides intelligent traffic routing to a valid MySQL Primary, locally and globally
• Scale read queries via query inspection and other methods
• Application and active users do not disconnect during MySQL master failover events
Most Advanced MySQL Replication
• Filter and transform your data in-flight
• No more ETL, get real-time data feeds into your analytics
• Replicate directly into popular analytic repositories: AWS RedShift, Hadoop (HDFS), Kafka and Vertica
• Unlimited real-time transactional data transfer to eliminate escalating replication cost of ETL-based
alternatives

29. Tungsten Clustering Key Benefits
Full MySQL Support, No Application Changes
• Deploy and Configure MySQL clusters in minutes
• Not just a ‘MySQL-compatible” solution, but fully MySQL-compliant. Use any of your off-the-shelf
MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server versions
• Support for all modern MySQL (5.x through 8.x) and MariaDB (5.x and 10.x) versions and features
• SSL support for all in-flight traffic
• Native MySQL support means easy and complete migration of your data and applications

30. Continuent Products
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard

31. Continuent Products
• High performant Real-Time replication
• Multiple Heterogeneous Targets
• AWS Aurora / RDS
• AWS Redshift
• HPE Vertica
• Hadoop
• Kafka
• and many more
• Fan-in / Fan-Out / Primary-Primary
• Flexible, Advanced Filtering
• Available as an AMI through Amazon
Marketplace (with free 14-day trial)
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard

32. Continuent Products
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard

33. Question: Are You Looking for
MySQL HA/DR?
• Yes, we're actively investigating a MySQL Availability solution
• Yes, we have a MySQL HA/DR in place, but we are not happy with it
• No, we already have a MySQL HA/DR solution we are happy with
• Not right now, but it is in our future plans
• No, I'm here to educate myself

34. Proven Continuent Team
• Our core team has been building data availability solutions since 2004
• We have an expert team of data replication, database connectivity and database cluster management
engineers
• We have a world-class support team
• Each member with 20 or more years of operational database experience
• Our team is available to respond effectively and immediately to our customers’ needs
• Average response time for an urgent support request less than 3 minutes

35. Proven Solutions
Our tightly-integrated, complete and fully tested solutions reliably handle billions of transactions per
day and support businesses with billions of dollars in combined revenue:

36. Why Choose Continuent
Customer Satisfaction
during the most recent customer survey
Customer Renewal Rate
many multi-year subscription renewals
Average Response Time
in minutes for urgent customer support
cases
Average Customer
Life-Span
years using Continuent solutions

37. In Summary
• The MySQL Availability Company
• Established in 2004
• Customers Industries include
• SaaS
• eCommerce
• Finance
• Telco
• Online Gaming
• Business-critical MySQL apps
• From Startup to Enterprise companies
2004 Continuent Established
2009 3rd Generation Continuent Tungsten, the first
fully MySQL-compliant clustering solution
2014 VMware Acquired Continuent to build
DBaaS for vCloud Air
2016 “New” Continuent breaks away from VMware
(after they abandoned vCloud Air)
2017 Major Tungsten release (v5) with hardened
security features
2018 Tungsten v6 ships with major multi-site
clustering changes
2020 Marketo is the first 10th anniversary Tungsten
customer (grown from 4 clusters to over 100
clusters)
202x The Future….is in the Cloud – Tungsten Cloud

38. Q&A
“Smooth Sailing!”

39. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING
continuent.com
The MySQL Availability Company
Eero Teerikorpi
October 14, 2020