The presentation slides are also available on Github.
ObjectRocket Founder, Kenny Gorman, will present a deep dive into the MongoDB profiler. The MongoDB profiler is a powerful tool for analyzing and improving performance on a MongoDB system. He will show everything from the very basics to advanced usage. He will cover how to use the Aggregation Framework in conjunction with the profiler, profiler analytics, query tuning, and response time analysis.
The ObjectRocket team has had a busy few weeks rolling out new capacity, and now we’re very happy to announce that ObjectRocket instances are available directly in the Rackspace Chicago (ORD) datacenter!
This is a big step forward in our efforts to provide ObjectRocket and Rackspace customers with an integrated experience that’s simple to manage, and fun to develop with.
Rackspace customers with existing infrastructure in the Chicago (ORD) datacenter will now be able to take advantage of our blazing fast MongoDB database-as-a-service offering running on our unique POD architecture. This includes our RocketScale™, RocketSecure™, and QueryGuard™ technologies – all designed to give you an industrial strength MongoDB solution right out of the box.
More awesome announcements to look for in the coming months:
Get started today with a 30 Day Free Trial of our blazing fast MongoDB service, or contact your Rackspace Sales Rep or support@objectrocket.com for more info.
A zero day MongoDB security vulnerability (CVE-2013-1892) was discovered by the folks at SCRT.
10gen has patched Mongodb to fix this issue. ObjectRocket is integrating this patch into our version of MongoDB and we will begin rolling this out to customers. All new instances and shards will have this patch integrated into it.
ObjectRocket takes security very seriously. Every instance requires an ACL for access above and beyond native MongoDB security as well as all connections can be SSL enabled. We are recommending this patch across the board. Customers will be contacted by support as this patch is rolled out.
Questions and concerns can be routed through support.
We just wanted to give an update on what has been happening since we announced we are being acquired by Rackspace.
It’s been almost a month now. We have been hard at work and it seemed like a good time for some updates.
Support
First and foremost we have started to integrate our support. Rackspace is known far and wide for being a support leader, it’s one of the reasons we love Rackspace. We are starting the very first integrations of support. One important aspect of support is customers will continue to work with ObjectRocket specific engineers and support folks. The folks who answer the call will be the folks that can help customers.
Some changes you will already notice is we are now utilizing a ticketing system for issues coming in via our email alias. This is the very first step in staffing support with awesome folks, as it allows us to scale long term. Our plan is to staff support with folks who understand and love MongoDB. So your support requests will continue to be timely, and a very knowledgeable person will respond to your ticket.
Enterprise customers will now be routed through the Rackspace infrastructure ensuring that they get immediate help and crisis triage. Again, scalability is key here and this step allows us to grow while continuing to provide timely and exceptional support.
Datacenters
Rackspace has a global foot print and an important part of joining the Rackspace Family was to be able to utilize that global footprint. We have been heads down since the acquisition getting into Rackspace datacenters. In the coming weeks we will be announcing our Chicago presence, with other datacenters to follow shortly. One important aspect of our integration with Rackspace was to ensure our very unique and high performance MongoDB infrastructure was maintained going forward and we’re happy to say we’ve done that! Same ObjectRocket, now available globally!
Office and Hiring
We are pleased to announce that the ObjectRocket team is moving to Austin. The entire team will be built out in our new offices at Capital Factory in downtown Austin. Capital Factory is the perfect place to build our team being surrounded by other startups will ensure we keep the energy and focus that has made ObjectRocket the worlds best MongoDB DBaaS offering. We have openings in Engineering, Support, and more on our jobs page. Capital Factory is also a great venue for meetups, and we plan to engange and host functions going forward. We love MongoDB, and Capital Factory is the perfect place to host and engage in the community.
Features
We haven’t stopped developing the product either. In the past month we have added new API calls that allow creation of shard keys, and return cluster details, we have clarified our space consumption metrics, as well as bunch of bug fixes.
While it’s been an amazing few months we’re stoked about what the future has to bring for us and what we provide to the community stay tuned for more announcements soon!
The ObjectRocket team has had one core focus from the start – to give developers the ability to create great applications on top of a premium MongoDB platform, all while enjoying industry leading availability and performance.
We knew from the start that great support was key to making this happen – and we’ve prided ourselves on giving customers the absolute best support experience possible, from the smallest instance to the largest enterprise deployment.
As part of this mission, we’ve gained an incredible amount of experience working with various cloud providers; Above all, one stood out – in their commitment to their customers, in their enthusiasm for the open-source community, and most of all, their ability to consistently deliver the Fanatical Support that customers deserve. We knew from our first experiences that this was the kind of company we would be excited to work with; Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re joining the Rackspace family!
I’m sure you’re wondering – what does this mean for existing customers? Well, it’s great news! You’ll continue to enjoy the ObjectRocket services you’ve come to know. You’ll continue to have the attention of a team that is hugely enthusiastic about MongoDB, and committed above all else to ensuring that you’re successful in your goals to integrate a high-performance document store into your applications. But we’re excited to really turn it up.
As part of the Rackspace family, you’ll see:
• Service in more datacenters, regions, and countries
• Faster provisioning
• More features
• Huge scalability, available instantly
.. and perhaps most importantly, the Fanatical Support that Rackspace customers have always enjoyed.
This also means big things for the ObjectRocket team. Rackspace has long been a significant contributor to the open-source community – most notably with OpenStack – and has an incredible engineering organization. We’re looking forward to being a part of it, and being able to pass on all the rewards of this directly directly to our customers. (Also, we’re hiring!)
Here’s a link to a short FAQ to answer anything we may have forgotten:
http://docs.objectrocket.com/rackspace
In the mean time, if you have any questions, you can always find us at support@objectrocket.com.
Thanks, From The ObjectRocket Team-
Chris, Kenny, and Erik
In mid 2011 we started playing around with MongoDB on Solid State Disk.
We played with various configurations, using flashcache , using SSD for just the journal, or for just the oplog, or both, or even throwing the entire database on flash storage. We played with various RAID controllers, software RAID, different RAID configurations, schedulers, filesystems and kernels.
We started feeling pretty good about getting really good performance out of MongoDB using SSD’s. MongoDB is very sensitive to physical I/O, especially then, when the database both had a single instance wide lock and didn’t yield on fault. If the disk was slow, then locks would pile up and the overall database response time would skyrocket even with modest concurrency. On SSD’s however, the disk access was so fast the lock just mattered a whole lot less. We could run highly randomized workloads with lots of concurrency without any problems. Sure, if one could keep a database entirely in memory then this wasn’t as much of an issue, but it also wasn’t very practical in the real world.
We felt like we might be onto something when we started to drive >500MB/s to disk with MongoDB.
In 2012 we founded ObjectRocket. We knew we wanted to utilize what we knew about MongoDB and SSD’s and incorporate it into a kick ass Database as a Service. We decided to build our own infrastructure from the ground up vs using one of the existing infrastructure providers. So we had our shot.
We started building prototypes of the hardware stack we wanted to use. We knew it had to be fast as hell to leapfrog the (then) yet to be released Amazon SSD offering. Our preference has always been to use commodity gear, plus we were a startup on angel cash so we had no budget for any fancy card based SSD offerings. So that meant we had to make do with commodity SSD’s using a 2.5” disk form factor (as opposed to card style storage offerings). We tested with early OCZ Vertex 2’s, and 3’s, and then finally settled on Intel 320’s. These things were fast as hell, cheap as dirt (for SSD’s), and had power fault protection by transferring temporary buffers to the NAND on unexpected shutdown. Perfect. We needed the power protection because we weren’t going with a typical RAID controller with battery backed cache, but rather, software RAID. We put in the credit card and used Amazon Prime for our first shipments. Ironic eh?
I remember getting the shipment of drives and thinking, “holy s$%#, I’ve never seen this many SSD’s in one place!”. They were literally in piles, well, ok, stacks.
We made the call to put each customer database entirely on SSD. We would simply just use SSD everywhere. We started building up a hardware profile we called a ‘brick’. A brick was a simple commodity piece of gear with lots of SSD’s and a bunch of other tricks to get MongoDB to haul ass. We settled on RAID10, we wanted to be able to allow ourselves the ability to remove drives and not affect the MongoDB replica set if we wanted to change out failed drives or we hit the wear limits before we calculated we would. This meant we were burning more disk than we wanted to, but we wanted things to be solid. Each customer was getting each disk block on a mirror, then on two other replica’s each with another mirrored disk set. All SSD.
We started to get really really fast performance with very low latencies and tolerance for quite high levels of concurrency. We started to think that this issue actually made the database slower on SSD. We upgraded to MongoDB 2.2 and that helped some along with DB level locking, and some yield on fault improvements. We were coming out of our beta period with customers and things were looking good.
With a couple tweaks we called that version 1.0 of our hardware profile and went production. Whew. We were blowing away 500MB/s, and nearly hit 1GB/s through MongoDB. ObjectRocket was born.
PLEASANTON, Calif. — Jan. 15, 2013 — ObjectRocket today announced the launch of its easy-to-use, consistently fast and scalable MongoDB database-as-a-service (DBaaS). The solution is backed by ObjectRocket’s expert 24×7 customer support.
ObjectRocket built its platform from the ground up – Unlike most MongoDB services built on top of shared infrastructure, ObjectRocket’s platform is specifically architected to provide a fast and predictable MongoDB environment. Each instance is backed by pure solid state disk for massive I/O, is inherently sharded and resides on multiple redundant pieces of infrastructure. Databases are replicated and optionally exist in multiple geo-diverse data centers. ObjectRocket also leverages AWS Direct Connect to provide low latency and free bandwidth to AWS Customers.
ObjectRocket provides premium software features – In addition to providing fast and reliable MongoDB hosting, ObjectRocket’s added software features offer customers ways to get more value out of their MongoDB environment. ObjectRocket’s unique software features include:
ObjectRocket’s seasoned team delivers 24×7 customer support – The ObjectRocket founding team has more than 50 years of combined experience in scaling large data systems, including MongoDB. They have designed and managed systems that power some of the busiest sites on the web, and played key founding development roles at companies like Shutterfly, PayPal, eBay and AOL. The founding team includes a MongoDB Master, one of 35 core contributors and community evangelists that play a vital role in the adoption, education and advancement of MongoDB.
ObjectRocket brings this easy-to-use, consistently fast and scalable MongoDB DBaaS solution to the market starting at $29/month/instance. Instances are available now.
“ObjectRocket was built by engineers for engineers,” said Chris Lalonde , CEO and co-founder of ObjectRocket. “We knew someone needed to start solving the hard problems of MongoDB as a service, so we built the platform that we would want to use. We’ve wrapped world-class support around this platform, creating an easy-to-use, consistently fast and scalable MongoDB environment.”
“ObjectRocket feels like cheating,” said Rylan Hazelton , Chief Architect at HitPost. “It has saved us time, staff resources, and money while remaining entirely in the cloud.”
“It’s great to see a new platform created for MongoDB users come to market, especially given the experience of the ObjectRocket team,” said Ed Albanese , Vice President of Business Development at 10gen. “ObjectRocket’s promise of ease of use, consistent speed and scalability will be attractive to a significant and fast-growing portion of the MongoDB user base.”
About ObjectRocket
ObjectRocket is a premium MongoDB database-as-a-service (DBaaS). Created from the ground up by a team with more than 50 years of experience, ObjectRocket ‘s platform delivers an easy to use, fast and predictable MongoDB environment. ObjectRocket allows customers to say hello to industrial-strength MongoDB.
ObjectRocket is backed by a top-notch board of directors, with tenures at companies including Oracle, PayPal, eBay, Facebook, Apple and 10gen.
We are very happy to release our new 1GB plan size.
This new smaller plan size is great for folks who want a sharded environment or want to test out sharding but don’t want to take on the task of configuring an entire environment.
Sign up, then simply add a new 1GB instance. As with all our plans, you can add more shards with a click or let RocketScale™ add them for you (up to 4). Each additional shard is still just $29/mo.
As always, hit us up at support@objectrocket.com if you have any questions, comments, or need help in any way.
We are excited to announce our new 5GB plan size pricing.
We received customer requests for a very low cost and smaller initial shard size. Well, here you go. For $149/mo you get 5GB of pre-configured sharded pure SSD cluster with (1) 5GB shard. Growing your cluster is as simple as adding a shard via our GUI or letting our RocketScale™ process automatically add it for you. We currently have plenty of these instances ready to go in our US-West zone and will be adding US-East shortly. Get started now! Enjoy, and as always feedback is welcome.
