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The Intelligent Database Proxy

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 SQL Challenges
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Technical Business

• Maxing out database • Increased database costs

instance size
• Lower user productivity
• Duplicate queries
• Slow user experience
• Too many connections to
backend

• Network latency

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• Heimdall Data is a:

– Database Proxy
– SQL Traffic Manager

• Improves SQL read/write performance

• Deployment requires no application changes

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Application Server Application Server

Application Application

JDBC driver Heimdall Data

Vendor Database
Driver .jar JDBC

Vendor JDBC
Driver

Runs as an Heimdall Data

agent Proxy
Any JDBC
data source

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Database Proxy
Tier
Application SQL
Application Server

Heimdall
DBHeimdall
Proxy
DB Heimdall
Proxy
DB Proxy
Application

Application

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Riverbed Proxy
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Application

QUERY READ/WRITE CONNECTION

CACHING SPLIT POOLING

BATCHING AUTOMATED
LDAP
DML FAILOVER

HEIMDALL DATABASE PROXY PLATFORM

Aurora, RDS,
Redshift
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Use Cases

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Application Server

Application Heimdall
Application Server
Data

1. Detects health of database instances

2. Queues up connection during a failover
3. No connection drops
4. Reducing application errors and exceptions

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Write

Application Server
Read 1

Application Heimdall
Application Server
Data
Read 2

1. Automate use of read replicas (read/write splits)

2. Replication lag detection to ensure data freshness
Read 3
3. Scale out the database with no application changes!

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 Connection Pooling / Multiplexing
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5 total connections to database

User A
10 connections User A: 1 allowed

Heimdall
Proxy User B: 4 allowed
User B
5 connections

• 15:5 Application to Database connection ratio

• Two-tier pooling limits: 1) Per user, 2) Per database instance

• Heimdall delivers the connections for only active concurrent queries

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Data
DML
Generator
Request
START TRANSACTION;
#1 DML 1;
DML 2;
DML 3; #3
DML 4;
COMMIT;

#2 4 3 2 1 Exceptions are logged,

removed from batch, and
Batch Size 512 transaction restarted

Benefits:
• Lower CPU overhead due to fewer commits
• Improved application response time
• Improved DML scale
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Thank You

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