Reniac CTO, Chidamber Kulkarni and Sr. Diretor Engineering, Prasanna Sukumar is giving a talk about Reniac Hardware Accelerators for NoSQL databases
Outline: In this talk, we will discuss our experiences in building a low-latency, high-throughput data acceleration engine for NoSQL databases, such as Cassandra. We will introduce the concept of a Data Proxy that marries the concepts of a transparent data layer proxy, that can talk CQL (for Cassandra), and the concept of a storage engine, that implements caching of data across multiple memory technologies such as SRAM, DRAM, and Flash memories.
We will then discuss the different accelerator technologies that can be used to build such a data acceleration engine and elucidate why FPGAs make the right choice. In this talk, we will also highlight the key design decisions and trade-offs that we made to leverage the power of FPGA devices to deliver 1/3rd to 1/10th lower latency and significantly higher throughput by saturating the 10Gb Ethernet within a server.
Finally, we will present some of our benchmark results to validate our claims. To conclude, we will show how the Data Proxy can be applied to other NoSQL databases, and adjacent technologies such as Search (using Solr/ElasticSearch) both as an on-prem solution and on cloud platforms with FPGAs, such as AWS F1.