DB_CLUSTER Module

Daniel-Constantin Mierla

Edited by

Daniel-Constantin Mierla


Table of Contents

1. Admin Guide
1. Overview
2. Dependencies
2.1. Kamailio Modules
2.2. External Libraries or Applications
3. Parameters
3.1. connection (str)
3.2. cluster (str)
3.3. inactive_interval (int)
4. Usage

List of Examples

1.1. Set connection parameter
1.2. Set cluster parameter
1.3. Set inactive_interval parameter
1.4. Set cluster parameter

Chapter 1. Admin Guide

1. Overview

This module provides a generic database clustering system. It can be used as a middle layer between modules and database connectors.

Via clustering, database operations can be executed across multiple servers, based on policies such as paraller write, serial or round robin write and read.

Following database commands are considered to be write operations: INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE, REPLACE, INSERT-DELAYED, INSERT-UPDATE. The read operations are done for database commands: QUERY and RAW-QUERY.

2. Dependencies

2.1. Kamailio Modules

The following modules must be loaded before this module:

  • db connector - database connectors.

2.2. External Libraries or Applications

The following libraries or applications must be installed before running Kamailio with this module loaded:

  • None

3. Parameters

3.1. connection (str)

Specify the connection to a real database system. The format is 'conid=>DBURL' - providing a connection id and the database URL.

Default value is NULL.

Example 1.1. Set connection parameter

...
modparam("db_cluster", "connection",
             "con1=>mysql://openser:openser@localhost/kamailio1")
modparam("db_cluster", "connection",
             "con2=>mysql://openser:openser@localhost/kamailio2")
...

3.2. cluster (str)

Specify the cluster definition. The format is 'clsid=>conid1=def1;conid2=def2' - providing a cluster id and the list of database connections to be used. For each connection you have to provide a usage definition. The usage definition is a 4-char long string, specifying priority and command mode for read an write operations to be done on that connection.

The priority is a digit between 0 and 9, higher value is higher priority. Priority 0 means that connection is not going to be used in that cluster.

Command mode is a character among s, r and p. s is for doing serial operations (try first and if fails, try next); r is for doing round robin operations; p - is for doing parallel operations (this is valid only for write operations).

Default value is NULL.

Example 1.2. Set cluster parameter

...
modparam("db_cluster", "cluster", "cls1=>con1=9s8p;con2=9s8p")
...

3.3. inactive_interval (int)

How long (seconds) a connection is considered inactive after a DB operations failed on it.

Default value is 300 (5 min).

Example 1.3. Set inactive_interval parameter

...
modparam("db_cluster", "inactive_interval", 180)
...

4. Usage

Practically, all the modules that want to use a cluster, have to set their db_url parameter to "cluster://clusterid".

Following rules apply when doing DB commands: the connecions with highest priority are chosen first and the operations are performed according to the command mode. Note that for same priority, only one command mode is used (the one from the first connection with that priority found in the definition of the cluster). If the DB command is not successful, next set of connections based on priority is selected and the command is tried again. When the command is successful, no other try is made.

For parallel operations, a command is considered successful if it succeeded on one connection from a group with same priority.

Next example shows how to set a cluster with two connections to MySQL to be used for parallel writing from acc and round-robin reading by sqlops.

Example 1.4. Set cluster parameter

...
modparam("db_cluster", "connection",
             "c1=>mysql://openser:openserrw@localhost/kamailio1")
modparam("db_cluster", "connection",
             "c2=>mysql://openser:openserrw@localhost/kamailio2")
modparam("db_cluster", "cluster", "k1=>c1=9r9p;c2=9r9p")

modparam("acc", "db_url", "cluster://k1")

modparam("sqlops", "sqlcon", "ca=>cluster://k1")
...