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OpenStack Trove Essentials

By : Alok Shrivastwa, Sunil Sarat, Doug Shelley, Amrith Kumar
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OpenStack Trove Essentials

By: Alok Shrivastwa, Sunil Sarat, Doug Shelley, Amrith Kumar

Overview of this book

OpenStack has become an extremely popular solution to build public and private clouds with. Database as a Service (DBaaS) enables the delivery of more agile database services at lower costs. Some other benefits of DBaaS are secure database deployments and compliance to standards and best practices. Trove is a DBaaS built on OpenStack and is becoming more popular by the day. Since Trove is one of the most recent projects of OpenStack, DBAs and system administrators can find it difficult to set up and run a DBaaS using OpenStack Trove. This book helps DBAs make that step. We start by introducing you to the concepts of DBaaS and how is it implemented using OpenStack Trove. Following this, we look at implementing OpenStack and deploying Trove. Moving on, you will learn to create guest images to be used with Trove. We then look at how to provision databases in self-service mode, and how to perform administration tasks such as backup and recovery, and fine-tuning databases. At the end of the book, we will examine some advanced features of Trove such as replication.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
OpenStack Trove Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Database software distribution support


Trove supports various databases; the following table shows the databases supported by this service at the time of writing this. Automated installation is available for all the different databases, but there is some level of difference when it comes to the configuration capabilities of Trove with respect to different databases.

This has lot to do with the lack of a common configuration base among the different databases. At the time of writing this book, MySQL and MariaDB have the most configuration options available, as shown in this list:

Database

Version

MySQL

5.5, 5.6

Percona

5.5, 5.6

MariaDB

5.5, 10.0

Couchbase

2.2, 3.0

Cassandra

2.1

Redis

2.8

PostgreSQL

9.3, 9.4

MongoDB

2.6, 3.0

DB2 Expre

10.5

CouchDB

1.6

So, as you can see, almost all the major database applications that can run on Linux are already supported on Trove.