Database Container Orchestrator Daemon Translation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing application container orchestrators struggle with managing and deploying containerized applications and databases with different codebases, as they lack compatibility and efficient mechanisms for cross-compatibility and feature access.
Innovation Solution
A database container orchestrator system that includes a database daemon capable of translating remote procedure calls into SQL queries, enabling communication and feature access between applications and databases built from different codebases, while maintaining existing database-specific features.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a standard application container orchestrator is used to manage containerized applications and databases, then deployment and management of containers is simplified, but compatibility and feature access between applications and databases with different codebases is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a database daemon as an intermediary component that sits between the application container and the database container. This daemon translates remote procedure calls from applications into database-specific queries, enabling cross-codebase compatibility without requiring applications to be aware of the underlying database implementation details. The mediator resolves the contradiction by maintaining a standardized interface layer that adapts between different codebases.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the database management functionality into separate components: the database daemon running in a dedicated container, the database itself in another container, and applications in their own containers. This segmentation allows each component to be independently managed, deployed, and updated, while the orchestrator can manage them as unified entities through the daemon's translation layer.
2Adaptability or versatility
If applications are built from different codebases with different features, then application functionality is enhanced, but complexity of managing cross-compatibility increases
Solution Approach 1:
The database daemon implements a universal interface that handles multiple database types and application codebases through a single translation mechanism. Rather than requiring separate integration logic for each application-database pair, the daemon provides multi-functional capability to translate various remote procedure call formats into appropriate database queries, reducing the overall system complexity.
3Reliability
If database features like backup and recovery are made accessible to all applications, then data safety is improved, but interface complexity for supporting multiple codebases increases
Solution Approach 1:
The database daemon serves as a mediator that exposes database features like backup and recovery to applications through a standardized interface. Applications can request these features without needing to understand the underlying database-specific implementations, as the daemon handles the translation and coordination, thereby maintaining reliability while minimizing interface complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a database container orchestrator system for deploying and managing containerized databases running on a computing platform. A system can include a database daemon for translating first commands, such as remote procedure calls, into second commands, such as queries built from SQL statements, which cause the database to retrieve data or perform other functions otherwise unavailable to an application incompatible with the database. The first commands received by the database daemon can be defined by an interface of a computing platform running containers for both the database and the database daemon. The interface can be an Application Programming Interface (API), which can include definitions of commands for starting, configuring, and running a containerized database, regardless of the different codebases represented by the containerized database and other applications.