Stretching the Mold: How Alibaba Enhances #database Flexibility
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From hybrid cloud flexibility to containerization, supporting the 11.11 Global Shopping Festival has taken relentless innovation from Alibaba’s database team.For Alibaba Group, preparing to support peak data traffic during the annual 11.11 Global Shopping Festival is a yearlong challenge, at the center of which demand for database flexibility has been a perennial feature.As a widely used data storage system, Alibaba’s database consumes IO and CPU resources to perform operations involved with its SQL requests, including physical read, logical read, and sorting and filtering. With different services’ SQL requests consuming different resources according to their execution plans, the demand for resource specification varies by service.To improve overall utilization, Alibaba must abstract (...)