Snowflake Inc.

Samir Rehmtulla

Johan Harjono

Daniel Geoffrey Karp

Arthur Kelvin Shi

Rares Radut

Thanakul Wattanawong

The subject technology selects a particular zone among multiple zones based on a target skew to meet a global balancing of cluster instances. The subject technology deploys a particular type of cluster instance to the particular zone. The subject technology, for each zone from the multiple zones, determines a respective number of cluster instances. The subject technology identifies a second particular type of cluster instance to add based on a total number of the second particular type of cluster instance in the multiple zones and a second total number of the particular type of cluster instance in the multiple zones. The subject technology adds the second particular type of cluster instance to a second particular zone to meet the global balancing of cluster instances in the multiple zones.

Cluster balancing for zones of a database system

The subject technology selects a particular zone among multiple zones based on a target skew to meet a global balancing of cluster instances. The subject technology deploys a particular type of cluster instance to the particular zone. The subject technology, for each zone from the multiple zones, determines a respective number of cluster instances. The subject technology identifies a second particular type of cluster instance to remove based on a total number of the second particular type of cluster instance in the multiple zones and a second total number of the particular type of cluster instance in the multiple zones. The subject technology removes the second particular type of cluster instance from a second particular zone to meet the global balancing of cluster instances in the multiple zones.

Cluster instance balancing of a database system across zones

The subject technology determines an availability zone skew among multiple zones. The subject technology, based on the availability zone skew, determines a target skew to meet a global balancing of cluster instances. The subject technology, based on the target skew, selects a particular zone among multiple zones. The subject technology deploys a particular type of cluster instance to the particular zone. The subject technology, for each zone from the multiple zones, determining a respective number of cluster instances. The subject technology identifies a first zone that includes a highest number of cluster instances based on the respective number of cluster instances from each zone. The subject technology identifies a second zone that includes a lowest number of cluster instances based on the respective number of cluster instances from each zone.

Zone balancing in a multi cluster database system

The subject technology determines, after a period of time elapses over a periodic segment of time, an imbalance of cluster instances deployed in multiple zones based on a threshold value, the cluster instances including different types of clusters associated with compute service manager instances. The subject technology identifies a particular type of cluster instance to include in a particular zone from the multiple zones. The subject technology adds the particular type of cluster instance to the particular zone to meet a global balancing of cluster instances in the multiple zones. The subject technology determines, after a second period of time elapses over the periodic segment of time, that a number of cluster instances deployed in the multiple zones is below the threshold value indicating a current balance of cluster instances in the multiple zones.

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San Mateo, CA, United States of America

Samir Rehmtulla