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Wolf-Tilo Balke

Jan-Christoph Kalo

Institut für Informationssysteme

Technische Universität Braunschweig

www.ifis.cs.tu-bs.de

Relational

Database Systems 1

• First off

– We will post up-to-date information on our website

• Language

– exam of tasks will be in German

– … but you may answer either in English, German, or Denglisch

• Content

– all content from the lecture or exercises may come up in the exams

• except content that was only in detours and not in an exercise

– This of course includes also lectures 10-14…

Relational Database Systems 1 – Wolf-Tilo Balke – Institut für Informationssysteme – TU Braunschweig 2

Exam Facts

• SQL Syntax

– Use the syntax as introduced in the lecture and

exercises

• e.g. You are not allowed to use the Postgres Inheritance feature


Exam Facts

• Cheat Sheets

– you may bring two hand-writtentwo-sided DIN A4 pages with notes• No photocopies, print-outs, etc.

• Date

– the exam will be written on March 9,2018, from 08:30 until 10:00/10:30

• Duration

– 90 min or 120 min depending on your exam regulations

• Location

– ZI 24.1, ZI 24.2, ZI 24.4

– Detailed allocations will be posted on our website


Exam Facts

14.1 Towards NoSQL & NewSQL

14.2 Server Hardware at Google

14.3 Example: CouchDB

14.4 Outlook: Next Semester


Towards NoSQL & NewSQL

• NoSQL and special databases have been popularized by different communities and a driven by different design motivations

• Base motivations– Extreme Requirements

• Extremely high availability, extremely high performance, guaranteed low latency, etc.– e.g. global web platforms

– Alternative data models • Less complex data model suffices

• (More complex) non-relational data model necessary– e.g. multi-media or scientific data

– Alternative database implementation techniques• Try to maintain most database features but lessen the drawbacks

– e.g. “traditional” database applications, e.g. VoltDB



• Traditional databases are usually all-purpose systems

– e.g. DB2, Oracle, MySQL, …

– Theoretically, general purpose DB provide all features to develop any data driven application

– Powerful query languages

• SQL, can be used to update and query data; even very complex analytical queries possible

– Expressive data model

• Most data modeling needs can be servedby the relational model



– Full transaction support

• Transactions are guaranteed to be “safe”

– i.e. ACID transaction properties

– System durability and security

• Database servers are resilient to failures

– Log files are continuously written

» Transactions running during a failure can recovered

– Most databases have support for constant backup

» Even severe failures can be recovered from backups

– Most databases support “hot-standby”

» 2nd database system running simultaneously which can take over in case of severe failure of the primary system

• Most databases offer basic access control

– i.e. authentication and authorization



• In short, databases could be used as storage

solutions in all kinds of applications

• Higher scalability can be achieved with

distributed databases, having all features

known from classical all-purpose databases

– In order to be distributed, additional mechanisms are

needed

• partitioning, fragmentation, allocation, distributed

transactions, distributed query processor,….



• However, classical all-purpose databases may lead to problems in extreme conditions– Problems when being faced with massively high query

loads• i.e. millions of transactions per second

• Load to high for a single machine or even a traditional distrusted database– Limited scaling

– Problems with fully global applications• Transactions originate from all over the globe

• Latency matters!– Data should be geographically close to users

• Claims:– Amazon: increasing the latency by 10% will decrease the sales by 1%

– Google: increasing the latency by 500ms will decrease traffic by 20%



– Problems with extremely high availability constraints

• Traditionally, databases can be recovered using logs or

backups

• Hot-Standbys may help during repair time

• But for some applications, this is not enough:

Extreme Availability (Amazon)

– “… must be available even if disks are failing, network routes are

flapping, and several data centers are destroyed by massive

tornados”

– Additional availability and durability

concepts needed!



• Problems with emerging applications requiring

new data models

– Traditional databases rely on the relational model which

is not optimal for many new applications

• e.g. scientific data management like genome databases, geo-

information databases, etc.

• e.g. for handling data streams and massive volumes of sensor data

• e.g. for handling knowledge networks and reasoning



• In extreme cases, specialized database-like

systems may be beneficial

– Specialize on certain query types

– Focus on a certain characteristic

• i.e. availability, scalability, expressiveness, etc…

– Allow weaknesses and limited features for other

characteristics



• In the recent years, discussing “NoSQL”

databases has become very popular

– Careful: big misnomer!

• Does not necessarily mean that no SQL is used

– There are SQL-supporting NoSQL systems…

• NoSQL often refers to “non-standard” architectures for

database or database-like systems

– i.e. system not implemented as shown in RDB2

– Sometimes, the label NewSQL is also used

• Not formally defined, more used as a “hype” word

– Popular base dogma: Keep It Stupid Simple!



• The NoSQL movement popularized the development of special purpose databases

– In contrast to general purpose systems like e.g. Postgres

• NoSQL usually means one or more of the following

– Being massively scalable• Usually, the goal is unlimited linear scalability

– Being massively distributed

– Being extremely available

– Showing extremely high OLTP performance• Usually, not suited for OLAP queries

– Not being “all-purpose”• Application-specific storage solutions showing some database

characteristics



– Not using the relational model• Usually, much simpler data models are used

• Some, much more complex data models are used (XML, Logic-based, objects, etc.)

– Not using strict ACID transactions• No transactions at all or weaker transaction models

– Not using SQL• But using simpler query paradigms

– Especially, not supporting “typical” query interfaces• i.e. JDBC

• Offering direct access from application to storage system

– System is cloud-based, i.e. not installed on a local server• System managed by a 3rd party



• In short:

– Many NoSQL & NewSQL

focus on

building specialized

high-performance data

storage systems!



• NoSQL and special databases have been popularized by different communities and a driven by different design motivations– Extreme Requirements

• Extremely high availability, extremely high performance, guaranteed low latency, etc.– e.g. global web platforms

– Alternative data models • Less complex data model suffices

– See https://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/nosql-data-modeling-techniques/

• (More complex) non-relational data model necessary– e.g. multi-media or scientific data

– Alternative database implementation techniques• Try to maintain most database features but lessen the drawbacks

– e.g. “traditional” database applications, e.g. VoltDB



https://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/nosql-data-modeling-techniques/

Classification System

Key-Value CacheCoherence, eXtreme Scale, GigaSpaces, Hazelcast, Infinispan, JBossCache, Memcached, Repcached, Terracotta, Velocity

Key-Value Store Flare, Keyspace, RAMCloud, SchemaFree

Key-Value Store - Eventually consistent

DovetailDB, Dynamo, Dynomite, MotionDb, Voldemort, SubRecord

Key-Value Store - Ordered Actord, Lightcloud, Luxio, MemcacheDB, NMDB, Scalaris, TokyoTyrant

Tuple Store Apache River, Coord, GigaSpaces

Object Database DB4O, Perst, Shoal, ZopeDB,

Document Store Clusterpoint, CouchDB, MarkLogic, MongoDB, Riak, XML-databases

Wide Columnar Store BigTable, Cassandra, HBase, Hypertable, KAI, KDI, OpenNeptune, Qbase

Array Databases SciDB, PostGIS, Oracle GeoRaster, Rasdaman

Stream Databases StreamSQL, STREAM, AURORA

Analytical Column Stores Vertica, SybaseIQ

High Throughput OLTP VoltDB, Hana



• Apache CouchDB

– Couch==cluster of unreliable commodity hardware

– Aimed at serving webpages and web apps

– Core Features

• Distributed Architecture with high degree of replication

– Can run on hundreds of nodes if required

– Focus on availability of data!

– Replicas are NOT always consistent, but eventually consistent

» Some nodes can even be offline!

» CouchDB can fall into partitions, this will be fixed by the

system

» Replicas will be synced bi-directionally when opportune



• No support for transactions– ... but at least supports some consistency for replicas : eventual

consistency

» See CAP theorem if you are interested in this…

» In short: in system with replicas, you can have availability, consistency, and partition tolerance

• Cap theorem: pick only two

• Uses a Document Data model– Stores and retrieves documents given by JSON files

• Has a strong emphasize on open Web APIs– No client APIs necessary

– No drivers necessary

– All documents have unique URI, exposed via HTTP REST calls

• Strong support for views– Views are defined via JavaScript



• Data Model:

– JSON Documents

• Initially a format designed to serialize Javascript objects

• Primary use: data exchange in a Web environment

– E.g., AJAX applications

• Extended use: data serialization and storage

• Could be seen as lightweight XML

– pretty easy to integrate to any programming language, with minimal

parsing effort

• However: No query language, no schema

• Basic idea: Structured key-value pairs


14.3 Example:

CouchDB

• Example: Simple Movie DB

• Simple data items are

key-value pairs supporting

typical Web data types


14.3 Example:

CouchDB

• “title” : “Terminator 2“

• “year” : 1991

• An object is a key value pair which has a set of

unordered keyvalue pairs as value

– Sub-item keys must be unique

– Objects can be used as values of a key-value pair


14.3 Example:

CouchDB

“director”: {

“first_name” : “James“,

“last_name” : “Cameron”

}

“terminator2”: {

“title” : “Terminator 2“,

“year” : 1991,

“director” : {


“last_name” : “Cameron” }}

• Also, arrays can be used


Example: CouchDB

“terminator2”:

{ “title” : “Terminator 2“,

“year” : 1991,

“director” : {


“last_name” : “Cameron” }

“actors”: [

{“first_name” : “Arnold”, “last_name” : ”Schwarzenegger” },

{“first_name” : “Linda”, “last_name” : ”Hamilton” },

{“first_name” : “Edward”, “last_name” : ”Furlong” },

]

}

• Documents are complex and autonomous

pieces of information

– Each document has a unique URI

– Can be retrieved, stored, modified, and deleted

• REST Calls: GET, PUT, POST, DELETE

– There are no references between documents

– Also, documents can be versioned, replicated,

synchronized, and restructured

• Each document is identified by an id and a revision number

• Each update created a new revision


Example: CouchDB

• Quick introduction

– You can use CURL for quick interaction

• Programming language & environment for interactive web

applications

• Provides native support for most web standards like HTML,

REST, or JSON

– Assume we installed CouchDB locally


Example: CouchDB

• Futon Admin Interface: http://127.0.0.1:5984/_utils/

• Already created movies DB


Example: CouchDB

http://127.0.0.1:5984/_utils/

• Add some data:

– Each document needs an ID, think of one!

– Or just use files:


Example: CouchDB

curl -X PUT -d ‘{ “title” : “Terminator 2“, “year” : 1991,“director” : { “first_name” : “James“, “last_name” : “Cameron” },

“actors”: [

{“first_name” : “Arnold”, “last_name” : ”Schwarzenegger” },

{“first_name” : “Linda”, “last_name” : ”Hamilton” },

{“first_name” : “Edward”, “last_name” : ”Furlong” },

]

}‘ http://127.0.0.1:5984/movies/Terminator2

curl -X PUT -d @Terminator2.json

http://127.0.0.1:5984/movies/Terminator2


Example: CouchDB

• This all looks quite easy and nice…

• Let’s query for something by using…no SQL???

– CouchDB only supports views, no queries!

– Views are defined using JavaScript MapReduce functions

• Map functions are run on each document and emit a new temporary document part of the view

– Again: A document has a key, and some value…

– View is ordered by key

• Views can then be queried by a reduce function

– Reduce functions summarize emitted map result grouped by key

• The MapReduce paradigm allows for an easy distribution of queries in a multi-node environment!


Example: CouchDB

• Example: Return an ordered list of all movies from 1991 or older

– i.e., SELECT title FROM movies WHERE year<=1991• …but we don’t have SQL…

– CouchDB:

• Create a new view with years as keys and titles as values

• Select from this view all pairs with keys<=1991

– Views are collected in design documents

• Each design document can have multiple views


Example: CouchDB

function(doc) {

if (doc.title && doc.year) {

emit(doc.year, doc.title);

}

}

Map:

• Example: Return an ordered list of all movies

from 1991 or older


Example: CouchDB

If there is a title and a year, create a newdocument with key=‘year’ and value=‘title’

No reduce necessary right now

View key-value pairs

We call this view “year-title”

• Query via REST HTTP

– http://127.0.0.1:5984/movies/_design/rdb1_14/_view/year-title?endkey=1991


Example: CouchDB

DB name Design Document Name

View name All keys up to 1991

• Example: Create list of years and the number of

movies released in that year

• (skip years without movies released, and consider

only years 1991 and older)

– e.g. SELECT year, count(*) FROM movies WHEREyear<=1991 GROUP BY year

• In CouchDB, we can use the same map as for the

previous query

– However, we need a reducer


Example: CouchDB

• Reducers are run on all mapped data

– Mapped values are grouped by key, and a reducer is

called for each key with a set of all respective values

– Reducers can also be run on their own output

• Called a re-reduce, which can be done multiple times


Example: CouchDB

function(keys, values, rereduce) {

return values.length;

}

Reduce:


Example: CouchDB

“terminator2”: { "title": "Terminator 2 - Judgement Day", "year": 1991, “genre”:”Action”}

“robinHood”:{ "title": "Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves", "year": 1991, “genre”:[”Action”, “Romance”]}

“conan”:{ "title": "Conan the Barbarian", "year": 1982, “genre”:”Action”}

function(doc) {

if (doc.title && doc.year) {

emit(doc.year, doc.title);

}

}

Map:

{1991: "Terminator 2 - Judgement Day"}

{1991: "Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves"}

{1982: "Conan the Barbarian"}


Example: CouchDB

{1991: "Terminator 2 - Judgement Day"}

{1991: "Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves"}

{1982: "Conan the Barbarian"}

function(keys, values, rereduce) {

return values.length;

}

Reduce:

{1982: 1}

{1991: 2}

• Query via REST HTTP

– http://127.0.0.1:5984/movies/_design/rdb1_14/_view/s

ums?endkey=1991&group_level=1


Example: CouchDB

Run reducer on level 0 and level 1

• So, how about transactions?

– Not supported per se!

– But there are “easy” workarounds – just keep track of transaction consistency manually

– Example: inventory management• You are selling hammers, and screwdrivers, and don’t want to sell more

than you have on stock

• What happens if we sell a hammer?

• In JDBC/SQL, this would be simple…

– Have constraint that inventory number can never be negative

– Start JDBC transaction in your application

– Load current inventory number for hammers

– If there are still hammers, reduce inventory by one

– Commit transaction – if this works out, tell customer that everything is fine

» If not, somebody else snatched the last hammer quicker


Example: CouchDB

• “Solution” A: Work with revision numbers• Have an inventory document

• Load document with hammer inventory number, store revision

• Sell hammer

• Update hammer inventory document with new number if only if document has still the same revision– If not, retrieve the new document and try to update that one…

– If you find out that there are no hammers anymore, reimburse customer and apologize

– This process catches many potential consistency problems, but gives NO guarantees at all!• This is horrible in a high concurrency environment!

• You could have purchases which get pushed back all the time…

• You could still sell more hammer than you have…


Example: CouchDB

inventory : {

_rev : “471c37eb3116179b9f269427372a86db”

“hammers” : 15;

“screwdrivers” :9;

}

• “Solution” B: Build fake “locks” for each item• For each hammer and screwdriver, have an own inventory document

• If you want to know how many hammers you have, create a view and count all hammer documents

• If you sell a hammer, randomly load one hammer file and try to delete it

• If this works, all might be well…

– This process has still problems…• e.g., inventory documents are replicated – how do you deal with that?

– Visit our lectures RDB2 and DDM to learn how to program something that will really work…

– … in which case you just build a distributed database transaction manager yourself!! Congrats, wheel re-invented!


Example: CouchDB

Hammer_1 : {_rev : “471c37eb3116179b9f269427372a86db”}

Hammer_2 : {_rev : “5ff77937ea707d35cc907b466f726cc8”}

Hammer_3 : {_rev : “3dd521c277ab448b91ce2e8bb57bbb4f”}

Screwdriver_1 : {_rev : “a1a70294da183c8b0fb525ec285971c9”}

Screwdriver_2 : {_rev : “09bdb275b75fea85369c86f7ba5f3467”}

• Closing words…

– Yes, NoSQL is cool and can do cool things!

• Usually, its easy, fast, and scalable!

– No, NoSQL does NOT universally invalidate

Relational Databases

– New Challenge for YOU:

• Choose the right tool for the right task!

• What does your application really require?

• What will it require in the future?

• Which technologies fulfill these requirements best?


NoSQL

• Lectures in SoSe 2018

– Deductive Databases and

Knowledge-based Systems

– Distributed Databases

– Software Entwicklungs Praktikum


14 Next Semester

• Knowledge-Based Systems

and Deductive Databases

– Master’s course, 5 Credits, in English

• Main challenge

– How can we encode and use knowledge

in a database system

• Touches multiple areas of

artificial intelligence

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KBS

Relational Database Systems 1 – Wolf-Tilo Balke – Institut für Informationssysteme – TU Braunschweig

• The increase of knowledge grows exponentially

– e.g. in terms of new publications

• Huge amounts of data have to be sifted and analyzed to gain intelligence from data

– Need knowledge-based technology for this task!

– Analysts have interesting perspectives,i.e. exciting and well-paid work

– Find out about the things you always wanted to know…

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KBS - Why should you go there?

data extracted from the Medline database


• But you can also go into the direction of big

bucks…

– Write an automated reasoning system and

license call-center technology

– Ronald A. Katz, founder of Ronald A.

Katz Technology Licensing, LP)

• Licensing the technology earned

more than one billion USD

• Customers include AT&T, Bank of

America, Citibank, Delta Air Lines,

Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft…

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KBS - Why should you go there?


• What are knowledge-based systems?

– What can you do with them?

• Topics covered

– We will show you how the vision of knowledge based systems was born and what became of it

– Formal Logics and Deduction

• …learn about different kinds of formal logic

• …learn of how to interpret logical expressions

• …learn how to efficiently evaluate logical expressions in a database setting

• …how to design a KBS using different flavors of formal logic

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KBS - What will you learn?


– Expert Systems

• How can human knowledge and

experience be encoded

• Can databases replace experts?

– The Semantic Web

• We will show you how all KBS ideas have been reborn

within the semantic web

• We will show you how the semantic web works and what it

tries to achieve

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– Question Answering

• We will show how knowledge-based methods can be

unleashed to be even smarter than very smart quitz

champions

• DeepQA project

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• Up to now we have only considered scenarios

where a central DBMS is responsible for

– Keeping the data consistent and persistent

– Optimizing query plans and minimizing disk accesses

– Guaranteeing the ACID properties of interaction

– Controlling the data security and privacy

• Especially, all meta-information about the

processes is concentrated at the DBMS

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14.2 Distributed Databases

• But organizations usually have a variety of

different systems to keep data records

– Customer database, human resources, product

catalogs, financial records

• How can a complete view of the distributed

data be provided, keeping all the advantages of a

single central database system?

– Integrate data, but avoid

single point of failure



• A distributed database is a database

– Under the control of a central database management

system

– Operations run on multiple computers located in the

same physical location, or may be dispersed over a

network of interconnected computers

– Storage devices are not all

attached to a common CPU

– Collections of data can be distributed

across multiple physical locations



• Database fragmentation

– Horizontal (row distribution)

– Vertical (column and/or

table distribution)

• Distributing databases (top-down)

– How to split and allocate data to individual sites?

• Integrating databases (bottom-up)

– Combine existing databases

– How to deal with heterogeneity & autonomy?



• Major advantages

– Reflects organizational structure

• Database fragments are located in the departments they relate to

– Local autonomy

• A department can control its own data and enforce policies

– Improved availability

• A fault in one database system will only affect one fragment,

instead of the entire database

– Improved performance

• The database fragments enable parallelized operations, allowing

load on the databases to be balanced among servers



• But not only managed data access within some structured organization is necessary, but also data access via the Internet

– Distributed information sources

– Deep Web / Hidden Web

– E-Commerce, comparison shopping

• Data transfer over the Web makes up for a large amount of bandwidth

– About 90% of network resources (including file sharing applications)



• Avoiding a single point of failure is mostly

beneficial for organizations

– The company’s central database is down, the complete

company is out of business?

– On the other hand multiple points of access may pose

severe security issues…

• For unstructured data the

peer-to-peer (P2P) paradigm

is often used for content access



• P2P systems are overlay architectures, with

the following characteristics

– Two logically separate networks

– Mostly IP based signaling

– Decentralized and self organizing

– Employ distributed shared resources



• First application: file sharing

– Classical application of P2P systems

• Large distributed database of files (music , videos, etc.) for free download

– First large scale occurrence of digital copyright infringement

• But also legal distribution of software/updates

– Basic idea of distributing softwareupdates or patches in a P2P fashion

– Technology used

• Today mostly BitTorrent (Block-based File Swarming)

• Microsoft’s Avalanche (File Swarming with Network Coding)




14 That‘s all folks…