If you had to handle transactions worth $1,000,000,000,000 with up to 3 nines of availability (99.999%),and as little downtime as possible.
How would you do it?
This is exactly the challenge Stripe faced last year in 2023 and took an impressive approach with their systems.
Here’s how they did it:
→ What were the requirements of the system?
- High availability, durability, and performance standards.
- Minimal database functions exposed to avoid suboptimal queries.
- Horizontal scalability with sharding and strong security.
- First-class support for multitenancy with enforced quotas.
→ What was the challenge?
- Handling large-scale, real-time data with MongoDB while maintaining 99.999% uptime.
- Migrating data across shards without downtime, ensuring consistency and completeness.
- Managing complex distributed systems for financial data, including asynchronous replication and data integrity.
→ What was the solution?
- DocDB: A self-managed DBaaS built on MongoDB Community, customized for low latency and diverse query handling.
Data Movement Platform: This platform enabled horizontal scaling and online data migrations, allowing shard splitting and merging without downtime.
→ How did the system work?
- DocDB Infrastructure:
Used MongoDB to store data across thousands of shards.
Applications accessed data through custom proxy servers that handled queries and routing.
- Database Sharding:
Data was split into chunks and stored in different shards. A metadata service helped find the right shard for each query.
- Data Movement Platform:
This platform managed data migrations across shards without downtime. It handled tasks like registering migrations, importing data, syncing changes, and switching traffic.
- Oplog and CDC Systems:
Tracked changes and ensured real-time data consistency across all shards.
- Fault Tolerance:
Automatic failover and data replication ensured data availability and reliability.
Key Features:
- Client-transparent migrations with a Coordinator component.
- Optimized bulk data import and async replication systems.
- Traffic switch protocol for rerouting queries during migrations.
- Continuous improvements like shard autoscaling and heat management for optimal performance.
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