Make sure you have Amazon Corretto 8+ or Java 8+ installed.
Clone the AWS JDBC Driver repository:
git clone https://github.com/awslabs/aws-advanced-jdbc-wrapper.git
You can now make changes in the repository.
Navigate to project root:
cd aws-advanced-jdbc-wrapper
To build the AWS Advanced JDBC Driver without running the tests: Mac:
./gradlew build -x test
Windows:
gradlew build -x test
Mac:
./gradlew build
Windows:
gradlew build
The AWS JDBC Driver uses the following tests to verify its correctness and performance on both JVM and GraalVM:
Tests | Description |
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Unit tests | Tests for AWS JDBC Driver correctness. |
Failover integration tests | Driver-specific tests for different reader and writer failover workflows using the Failover Connection Plugin. |
Enhanced failure monitoring integration tests | Driver-specific tests for the enhanced failure monitoring functionality using the Host Monitoring Connection Plugin. |
AWS authentication integration tests | Driver-specific tests for AWS authentication methods with the AWS Secrets Manager Plugin or the AWS IAM Authentication Plugin. |
Connection plugin manager benchmarks | The benchmarks subproject measures the overhead from executing JDBC method calls with multiple connection plugins enabled. |
The AWS JDBC Driver repository also contains additional integration tests for external tools such as HikariCP, the Spring framework or Hibernate ORM.
The AWS JDBC Driver has been manually verified to work with database tools such as DBeaver.
The JDBC Wrapper has 2 types of performance tests:
- benchmarks measuring the AWS JDBC Driver's overhead when executing simple JDBC methods using the JMH microbenchmark framework
- manually-triggered performance tests measuring the failover and enhanced failure monitoring plugins' performance under different configurations
This diagram shows the benchmarks from running UPDATE queries using the AWS JDBC Driver with pgJDBC as the target driver. The baseline number represents running the same UPDATE queries with pgJDBC.
This diagram shows the benchmarks from running UPDATE queries using the AWS JDBC Driver with MySQL Connector/J as the target driver. The baseline number represents running the same UPDATE queries with MySQL Connector/J.
There are also specific benchmarks measuring the AWS JDBC Driver's pipelines. These benchmarks do not make actual connections to the databases and use simple test plugins. The goal of these benchmarks is to measure the overhead of using the AWS JDBC Driver with multiple plugins enabled.
See here for a more detailed performance breakdown.
The diagrams in this section show the AWS JDBC Driver's failure detection performance with or without the Failover Connection Plugin under different settings. The performance tests share the following workflow:
- The AWS JDBC Driver executes an SQL query with a long execution time.
- After a network outage delay in milliseconds, the test triggers a network outage. Varying values for the network outage delay are tested, represented on the X axis of the diagrams below.
- Measures elapsed time between when the network outage and
- when the AWS JDBC Driver detects the network failure if the Host Monitoring Connection Plugin is used, or
- when the AWS JDBC Driver finishes the failover process if the Failover Connection Plugin is used.
This diagram shows the failover time with a 30-seconds socket timeout and different network outage delays. See here for a more detailed performance breakdown.
The following diagrams show how the AWS JDBC Driver performs under a more common failure detection setting versus a more aggressive setting.
Common Failure Detection Setting
Parameter | Value |
---|---|
failoverTimeoutMs |
120000 |
failureDetectionTime |
30000 |
failureDetectionInterval |
5000 |
failureDetectionCount |
3 |
Aggressive Failure Detection Setting
Parameter | Value |
---|---|
failoverTimeoutMs |
120000 |
failureDetectionTime |
6000 |
failureDetectionInterval |
1000 |
failureDetectionCount |
1 |
For more details on failure detection settings, see here. For more details on failover settings, see here. See here for a more detailed performance breakdown.
See here for a more detailed performance breakdown.
After building the AWS JDBC Driver you can now run the unit tests. This will also validate your environment is set up correctly.
Mac:
./gradlew test
Windows:
./gradlew test
For more information on how to run the integration tests, please visit Integration Tests.
For more information on how the AWS Advanced JDBC Driver functions and how it is structured, please visit Architecture.