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Currently CDRTool uses OpenSIPS radius client/ FreeRadius server/ MySQL database chain. This chain has weaknesses and scalability drawbacks, too many to mention.

Based on this analysis, MongoDB is a good candidate to replace the whole chain with a more scalable and elegant solution.

  • Scales horizontally with the amount of hardware
  • Almost zero configuration to install and run on Debbian, a few binaries only
  • All works as one would expect a database, well documented by the makers
  • Easy to learn and use (about two days)
  • Multiple collections per database, equivalent to table in SQL
  • Document oriented, a document is equivalent to a row in SQL schema
  • Documents can have a different structure, unlike SQL schemas that have fixed columns
  • Documents are JSONs. Can be imported and exported as such using cli tools. Backup/restore is dead easy
  • Query language is dead simple using array/dictionaries
  • Clever pipelines of processing on database server similar to UNIX pipes (version > 2.2)
  • All CDRTool SQL queries equivalent were possible (with latest 2.2 server version and 1.3 client version)
  • Multiple nodes with automatic replication, nothing to repair, does not conflict
  • New nodes can be added or removed with a simple command, data replicated on the fly without locking
  • One primary node elected by nodes, is the entity responsable for writing data
  • Connected clients are aware of the primary selection and always write to elected primary
  • Writes can be done with or without confirmation of committing to disc
  • Clients can connect automatically to closest server RTT-wise
  • Read queries can be targeted to slaves located in tagged data centers
  • No need to create tables in advance, all is created on the fly (e.g. radacct tables)
  • Data can expire automatically, no need to manually purge old logs (e.g. siptrace table)
  • Clients available for every programming language
  • Clients automatically failover
  • Client can discover the whole cluster set by connecting to any available node
  • Supports TLS transport for encrypted client to server connections
  • Supports authentication
  • Self-learning DNS can be used to discover nodes

Minuses

  • Does not support the equivalent of SQL JOIN between tables. The need for joins can be eliminated by chosen data model
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