Uber Achieves Significant Storage Savings With Myrocks Differential Backups
InfoQ, Monday, November 11th, 2024
Uber has written about successfully implementing a new differential backup system for its distributed databases, which led to storage cost reductions of up to 70%.
Uber engineers developed this solution in response to growing storage costs and lengthy backup completion times that emerged after Uber migrated the storage for their Schemaless and Docstore services to MyRocks, a MySQL storage engine based on RocksDB.
At Uber, the Schemaless and Docstore distributed databases handle tens of petabytes of operational data and process tens of millions of requests per second. These databases are critical to Uber's global operations, supporting various business functions and ensuring business continuity.