Database for a java application in cluster

Question

I'd like to play around with kubernetes , I'm able to start a simple app, but now I'd like to design something more complex. Nevertheless I can't figure out, how to handle the database access in such architecture.

Let's say I have 100 pod replicas of some simple chat application. They all need to access the same database (or more like data set) and perform CRUD operations upon them. How to design it to keep the data consistent and eliminate the risk of deadlocks?

If possible, I'd like to use SQL -like database, so I can comfortably use hibernate and other tools I'm familiar with.

Is this even possible or do I have to use totally a different approach? What is the name of the technology or architecture I'm searching for?

Answer 1

1) You can use a connection pool to reduce this number and make the connection settings more aggressive/elastic;

2) Split your microservices in such way the access to the persistence is a microservice exposing your CRUD service to your persistence(mysql/rdms/nosql/etc). In that way you most likely don't need hundreds of replicas of your pods.

3) Deadlocks / locking strategies - as Andrew mentioned in the comments, it's more related to your software development architecture rather than K8s itself. There are plenty of ways to deal with that with pros/cons.