Web Scale PHP Connection Broker

Description

Can a database handle 20K connections on a commodity box?

Large scale deployment of PHP applications is challenging for databases in terms of connection management, thread management, network I/O, state management, performance, scalability, and availability.

All RDBMS vendors are actively looking into solving these challenges. This technical session will describe the new Oracle Database 11g Database Resident Connection Pool.

After an overview of DRCP, the session will describe its components, how it works, sharing the pool across several applications and midle-tiers, configuring DRCP for a large number of connections including the details of DRCP benchmark sustaining 20000 consurret users against an Oracle Database 11g on a copmmodity box.

Finally the session will describe DRCP best practices (i.e., when to use it).

Kuassi Mensah is Senior Manager of Product Management, for Oracle Database Access and Programming Interfaces which includes Java, JDBC, OCI, PHP, Ruby, Python and Perl. He joined Oracle France in 1989 as system and database performance expert then took over the Centre of Expertise specializing in application architecture and database performance. In 1999, he moved to Oracle headquarters within the Oracle's Advanced Technology group. Mr Mensah holds a MS and post graduate in Computer Sciences from the Programming Institute of University of Paris VI. He is is a frequent speaker at industry events and has published several articles and a book on Java in the Database, JDBC, and Web Services. He maintains a blog @ http://db360.blogspot.com