Mangstor and Mellanox to Deliver MySQL Database Acceleration Over Low Latency Storage

Mangstor Inc., a developer of non-volatile memory storage solutions, and Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced extensions to the Mangstor NX-Series storage array portfolio that deliver clustered database workloads using a Mellanox 100Gb/s RDMA network.

NX-Series storage array platform is available in configurations of 10.8TB and 21.6TB of usable capacity, and supports industry standard Ethernet connectivity with network speeds up to 100Gb/s using Mellanox’s end-to-end RDMA over Ethernet (RoCE) solution featuring ConnectX-4 NICs, Spectrum switch, and LinkX cables. The result is an NVMe over Fabric (NVMf) storage solution that provides high bandwidth, low latency flash storage connectivity using minimal server compute resources.

StorageReview Enterprise Test Lab benchmarked the scalable NX6325 Storage Array in a 32-node virtualized Percona MySQL cluster that distributed the dataset, tempDB file, and log files across 330GB volumes. Testing was performed across a range of nodes, from 4 to 32. Outstanding transactional performance, with low latency, was seen across the range of testing. The NX-Series array delivered a total aggregate performance of more than 38,000 transactions per second in the 32-node test.

These results represented over 2.5x faster performance than the next closest shared storage array tested by StorageReview. The latency performed well under load, and maintained consistent overall MySQL transactional latency of 14.3ms for a 4 VM node cluster to 26.6ms for a 32 VM node cluster. Though the load ramped up by 8x when going from 4-node to 32-node testing, the latency did not  double. Full test results.

“Reducing time to results of MySQL database applications is key to increasing business efficiency for many companies. Low latency data response times from storage enables more OLTP transactions per second without increasing user response times,” said Paul Prince, CTO, Mangstor. “We’re particularly pleased with these results as it shows the ability to bring the fantastic performance of Mangstor NVMf storage to an environment using a cluster of VMs. This now means that companies choosing to operate MySQL in a virtualized environment can benefit from NVMf storage performance.“

“Using RoCE to transfer data from application servers to storage servers in high-speed and low latency scale-out architectures, bypasses the lower level SCSI transport layer, which eliminates bottlenecks and maximizes overall datacenter efficiencies,” said Motti Beck, senior director enterprise market development, Mellanox. “This joint NVMf storage solution allows customers to fully leverage their existing datacenter infrastructure and operational practices over 10/25/40/50/100GbE networks.“

The solution features Mangstor’s TITAN NVMf storage software enabling IT managers to provision shared flash storage via a REST-based API and GUI tools so that large clusters of NVMf storage can be managed to meet the needs of scalable database cluster environments.

NX-Series Storage Arrays are available through Mangstor’s worldwide sales channel of distributors, resellers, system integrators and manufacturing representatives.