MongooseIM is basically a huge router, that comes with a large set of modules. These modules modify and extend the behaviour and features of MongooseIM. Sysadmins and DevOps can configure these modules and potentially enable them. A wide range of modules is available, such as authentication, privacy, storage, backend integration, mobile optimisations... See 'Extension Modules' for more info.
Remember that MongooseIM manages two sets of data: transient for session data management, and persistent for archive and configurations.
Please refer to 'Database Backends' doc for more configuration information.
Mnesia will run on the same nodes as MongooseIM. Corollary: each MongooseIM node host has a Mnesia node.
Redis will be a separate cluster, not using the same nodes as MongooseIM.
No need to backup here, since the transient data naturally rebuilds as clients reconnect massively.
Both RDBMS/SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and NOSQL (Riak KV) databases are supported.
Backups should be regular, and tested.
LDAP will also run on a separate cluster.
Backups should be regular, and tested.
Native clients, on platforms such as Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, will preferrably use a plain XMPP over TCP connections.
Web clients will preferrably use XMPP over websockets, or the now less relevant XMPP over BOSH (using long-lived HTTP connections, more and more used as fallback) because web clients cannot use TCP connections.
Any client could use the client REST API, which is using HTTP request/responses.
All these client connections will hit a frontend load balancer before reaching the MongooseIM cluster.
MongooseIM can communicate both ways with other backend services in the datacenter infrastructure.
The MongooseIM REST API is available for control/management of MongooseIM's operations as well as functional aspects.
An HTTP notification enables the forwarding of events to any other external HTTP service.
WombatOAM enables the monitoring and management of MongooseIM clusters, as well as Riak KV, RabbitMQ, and any other Erlang and Elixir based system.
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The MongooseIM platform enables a service to scale worlwide, with proximity servers across continents and datacenters. It leverages the use of the open standard S2S (server-to-server) protocol.
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