Another situation is when you have an application that occasionally uses a MongoDB database. In this case, you might want to open the connection when needed and close it immediately after use for freeing the acquired resources. A consistent approach to this problem would be to use the with statement. Yes, MongoClient implements the context manager protocol:
The nosqlprotocol module allows a MariaDB server or cluster to beused as the backend of an application using a MongoDB client library.Internally, all documents are stored in a table containing two columns;an id column for the object id and a doc column for the document itself.
nosqlprotocol.user and nosqlprotocol.password specify thecredentials that will be used when accessing the backend database orcluster. Note that the same credentials will be used for all connectingMongoDB clients.
The fact that NoSQL users have the database embedded in the MariaDBname may be inconvenient if the same data is accessed both as NoSQLvia nosqlprotocol and as SQL directly from MariaDB. It also makesit impossible to use an existing MariaDB account from NoSQL.
When creating a user nosqlprotocol accepts all roles as predefined byMongoDB, but not all of them are translated into GRANT privileges.The following table shows what privilege(s) a particular role isconverted to.
Other pre-defined roles are recognized and stored in the localnosqlprotocol account database, but they do not affect what privilegesare granted to the MariaDB user. Currently user-defined roles arenot supported.
If nosqlprotocol authentication has been taken into use and a MongoDBclient authenticates, either when connecting or later, then the credentialsof MongoDB client will be used when accessing the MariaDB server.
Note that even if nosqlprotocol authentication has been enabled, authenticationis not required, and if the MongoDB client has not authenticated itself, thecredentials specified with nosqlprotocol.[userpassword] (or the anonymoususer) will be used when accessing the MariaDB server.
It is important to note that even if nosqlprotocol authorizationis enabled, the MariaDB server has the final word. That is, even if theroles of a user would be sufficient for a particular operation, if thegranted privileges are not, the operation will not succeed. There maybe a mismatch between roles and grants, for instance, if the wrong roleswere specified when the user was added, or if the grants have beenaltered directly and not via nosqlprotocol.
With implicit bootstrapping, you should first create the MariaDBuser that should appear as the initial NoSQL user. As explainedhere, the concept of a user is somewhatdifferent in MariaDB and NoSQL, which means that certain factorsmust be taken into account when creating the MariaDB user. Thenat first startup, nosqlprotocol will create the correspondingNoSQL user, which will enable the authenticated and authorizeduse of nosqlprotocol.
Note that when connecting the user is passed as nosql_admin and notas admin.nosql_admin. The fact that we want to authenticate againstthe admin database is expressed by passing the database as the lastargument.
So as to be able to connect to the MariaDB server on behalf ofclients, nosqlprotocol must know their password. As the passwordis not transferred to nosqlprotocol during the authentication ina way that could be used when logging into MariaDB, the passwordmust be stored when the user is created with createUseror added with mxsAddUser.
In the private case, the account information of nosqlprotocol isstored in an sqlite3 databasewhose name is /nosqlprotocol/-v1.db,where is the libdir of MaxScale, typically/var/lib/maxscale, is the name of thelistener section in the MaxScale configuration file, and -v1a suffix for making schema evolution easier, should there bea need for that.
At first startup, the nosqlprotocol directory andthe file NoSQL-Listener-v1.db will be created. They willbe created with file permissions that only allow MaxScaleaccess. At subsequent startups the permissions will be checkedand MaxScale will refuse to start if the permissions allowaccess to others.
Note that we make no guarantees that the way in which theaccount information is stored by nosqlprotocol will remain thesame even between maintenance releases. We do guarantee,however, that even if the way in which the account information isstored changes, existing account information will automaticallybe converted and no manual intervention, such as re-creation ofaccounts, will be needed.
In the shared case, the account information of nosqlprotocolis stored in the cluster of the service in front of which theNoSQL listener resides. The primary of the cluster will be usedboth for reading and writing data.
A table whose name is the same as the listener's name in theMaxScale configuration will be created in the databasespecified with the authentication_dbparameter. If it is not specified explicitly, the default isnosqlprotocol. The name of the table will be the name ofthe listener section in the MaxScale configuration file.
nosqlprotocol also stores in the table the SHA1 of a user'spassword, to be able to authenticate against the MariaDB server.Therefore it is strongly suggested to enable encryption keymanagement in MaxScale and to provide an authenticationkey ID with authentication_key_id sothat the data will be encrypted.
Note that we make no guarantees that the table in which theaccount information is stored by nosqlprotocol will remain thesame even between maintenance releases. We do guarantee,however, that even if the way in which the account information isstored changes, existing account information will automaticallybe converted and no manual intervention, such as re-creation ofaccounts, will be needed.
As the goal of nosqlprotocol is to implement, to the extent that itis feasible, the wire protocol and the database commands the way MongoDBimplements them, it should be possible to use any language specific driver.
Using the following parameters, the behavior of nosqlprotocol can beadjusted. As they are not generic listener parameters, but specific tonosqlprotocol they must be qualified with the nosqlprotocol-prefix.
Specifies the database of the table where the NoSQL account informationis stored, if authentication_shared is true. If the database does notexist, nosqlprotocol will attempt to create it, so either is should bemanually created or the used specified with authentication_user shouldhave the grants required to do so.
The encryption key ID, using which the NoSQL account information should beencrypted with when stored in the MariaDB server. If an encryption key ID isgiven, the encryption key manager in MaxScale must also be enabled.
Specifies whether nosqlprotocol itself should perform authorization in the contextof the commands mxsAddUser, mxsRemoveUser andmxsUpdateUser. Authorization should not be enabled before usershave been created with createUser or added with mxsAddUserwith authorization being disabled.
Specifies the host to be used when a MariaDB user is created via nosqlprotocol.By default all users are created as ...@'%', which means that it is possible toconnect to the MariaDB server from any host using the credentials of the createduser. For tighter security, the IP-address of the MaxScale host can be specified.
Note that nosqlprotocol does not in any way verify that the tablecorresponding to a collection being accessed or modified does indeedhave the expected columns id and doc of the expected types, but itsimply uses the table, which will fail if the layout is not the expectedone.
The following is a minimal setup for getting nosqlprotocol up andrunning. It is assumed the reader knows how to configure MaxScale fornormal use. If not, please start with theMaxScale tutorial.Note that as nosqlprotocol is the first component in the MaxScalerouting chain, it can be used with all routers and filters.
The mongo Shell is a powerful tool with which to access and manipulate aMongoDB database. It is part of the MongoDB package. Having the nativeMongoDB database installed is convenient, as it makes it easy to ascertainwhether a problem is due to nosqlprotocol not fully implementing somethingor due to the API not being used in the correct fashion.
As all client libraries implement and depend on the the MongoDB wire protocol,all client libraries should work with nosqlprotocol. However, theonly client library that has been used and that has been verified to workis version 3.6 of the MongoDB Node.JS Driver.
mongodburi
The MongoDB server AEM must connect to. Connections are made to all known members of the default replica set. If MongoDB Cloud Manager is used, server security is enabled. Therefore, the connection string must contain a suitable username and password. Non-enterprise versions of MongoDB only support username and password authentication. For more information on the connection string syntax, consult the documentation.
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