Scaling MySQL: From Single Instance to Cloud‑Native Sharding Architecture

This article traces MySQL’s architectural evolution—from a single‑instance setup to vertical partitioning, master‑slave replication, horizontal sharding, and finally cloud‑native SaaS—highlighting scalability strategies, sharding routing methods, consistency challenges, and automated scaling techniques for high‑concurrency web applications.

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Scaling MySQL: From Single Instance to Cloud‑Native Sharding Architecture

Ctrip Technology

Jun 3, 2014 · Databases

SessionDB: A High‑Performance LSM‑Based Key/Value Store for Stateless Sessions

The article introduces SessionDB, a Java‑implemented, LSM‑tree‑based key/value storage engine designed to eliminate sticky sessions by providing high‑throughput, durable, and scalable session data handling, and details its architecture, optimizations, sharding strategy, and benchmark comparisons with BerkeleyDB, LevelDB, and RocksDB.

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SessionDB: A High‑Performance LSM‑Based Key/Value Store for Stateless Sessions