InfiniStore

InfiniStore is an elastic, cost-effective, and high-performance object storage built atop ephemeral cloud funtions. Built on top of the InfiniCache codebase, InfiniStore offers automatic elasticity, durability, strong consistency, and high performance.

The preprint of our VLDB'23 paper can be viewed at: InfiniStore: Elastic Serverless Cloud Storage.

Prepare

• EC2 Proxy

  Amazon EC2 AMI: ubuntu-18.04

  Golang version: 1.18

  Be sure the port 6378 - 6379 is avaiable on the proxy

  We recommend that EC2 proxy and Lambda functions are under the same VPC network, and deploy InfiniStore proxy on EC2 instances with high bandwidth (c5n family maybe a good choice).

• Golang install

  Jump to install_go.md

• Package install

  Install basic package

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get -y upgrade
  sudo apt install awscli
  sudo apt install zip

  Clone this repo

  git clone https://github.com/ds2-lab/infinistore.git

  Run aws configure to setup your AWS credential.

  aws configure

• Lambda Runtime

  Lambda Role setup

  Go to AWS IAM console and create a role for the Lambda memory node (Lambda function).

  AWS IAM console -> Roles -> Create Role -> Lambda ->

  AWSLambdaFullAccess,

  AWSLambdaVPCAccessExecutionRole,

  AWSLambdaENIManagementAccess

  Enable Lambda Internet Access under VPC

• S3

  Create the S3 bucket to store the zip file of the Lambda code and data output from Lambda functions. Remember the name of this bucket for the configuration in next step.

• Configuration

  Lambda Function Configuration and Creation

  Edit the aws settings and the VPC configuration in deploy/config.yml. If you do not want to run InfiniStore under VPC, skip aws-vpc-subnets and aws-security-groups settings. A valid configuration will like:

  region: "us-east-1"
  aws-iam-role: "arn:aws:iam::1234567890:role/jzhang33"
  aws-vpc-subnets: "subnet-12345abcdef,subnet-67890abcdef"
  aws-security-groups: "sg-abcdef0987654321"
  s3-bucket-cos: "infinistore.cos"    # S3 bucket for InfiniStore COS layer.
  s3-bucket-data: "infinistore.data"  # Optional. S3 bucket for collecting data required for reproducibility experiments.

  Edit deploy/create_function.sh and deploy/update_function.sh

  DEPLOY_PREFIX="your lambda function prefix"
  DEPLOY_CLUSTER=1000   # The number of Lambda deployments used for window rotation.
  DEPLOY_MEM=1536       # The memory of Lambda deployments.
  S3="your bucket name" # S3 bucket for uploading the binary of AWS Lambda functions.

  Run script to create and deploy lambda functions (Also, if you do not want to run InfiniStore under VPC, you need to remove the --no-vpc flag on executing deploy/create_function.sh).

  go get
  deploy/create_function.sh --no-vpc 600

  If lambda functions are deployed in VPC, create NAT gateway to give Lambdas access to the proxy. You may use AWS console or create_nat.sh. Besure to change the settings as described in the script before executing. Plese refer to this article.

  deploy/create_nat.sh

  Proxy Configuration

  Edit proxy/config/config.go, change the aws region, cluster size, and prefix of the Lambda functions.

  const AWSRegion = "us-east-1"
  const NumLambdaClusters = 1000
  const LambdaPrefix = "Your Lambda Function Prefix"
  const ServerPublicIp = ""  // Leave it empty if using VPC.

Execution

• Proxy server

  Run make start for quick starting the proxy server. The proxy will show a console dashboard to track Lambda invocation. Logs by default is in file log in the same folder. debug option is available for more detail logs.

  make start ["PARAMS=--debug"]

  To stop proxy server, press ctrl+c or q if dashboard is displayed, otherwise, run make stop. If make stop were not working, you could use pgrep proxy, pgrep go, or check /tmp/infinistore.pid to find the pid and kill the proxy.

• Client library

  The toy demo for Client Library

  go run client/example/main.go

  The result should be

  ~$ go run client/example/main.go
  2023/02/26 23:07:48 EcRedis Set foo 15 160250633
  2023/02/26 23:07:48 EcRedis Got foo 15 28614169 ( 28574763 34758 )
  GET foo:Hello infinity!(28.698376ms)

• Stand-alone local simulation

  On Mac, InfiniStore can be run in local simulation mode, which will initiate local processes as cloud functions.

  Enable local function execution by editing lambda/config.go:

  S3_BACKUP_BUCKET = "your S3 bucket%s"  // Leave %s at the end your S3 bucket.
  DRY_RUN = true

  Run make start-local to start a stand-alone local proxy server, which will invoke functions locally to simulation Lambda execution.

  Run make test to put/get a toy object.

Related repos

Benchmark tool and workload replayer infinibench.

RESP (REdis Serialization Protocol) library redeo.

To cite InfiniStore

@inproceedings {vldb23-infinistore,
  author       = {Jingyuan Zhang and Ao Wang and Xiaolong Ma and Benjamin Carver and Nicholas John Newman and Ali Anwar and Lukas Rupprecht and Dimitrios Skourtis and Vasily Tarasov and Feng Yan and Yue Cheng},
  title        = {InfiniStore: Elastic Serverless Cloud Storage},
  journal      = {Proc. {VLDB} Endow.},
  volume       = {16},
  number       = {7},
  pages        = {1629--1642},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p1629-zhang.pdf},
}

Contributing

Please feel free to hack on InfiniStore! We're happy to accept contributions.