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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Sterling B2B Integrator
Categories B2B Advanced Communications
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 30, 2024

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B2BAC - Support for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale

The ever-evolving cloud offerings require constant review of services and cloud cost management options.

As our ebMS/AS4 solution using B2B products is a critical business application we need to ensure that we are using appropriate cloud native technologies. To this point, we would like to have Sterling B2Bi support for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale tier -

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/service-tier-hyperscale?view=azuresql


B2Bi 6.2 version has support for Azure SQL DB, but we need to ensure that this extends to B2BAC 1.0.0.X branch. The ability to use Azure SQL DB but specifically the ability to make use of the Hyperscale tier with confirmation of appropriate and successful testing.


What is your industry? Banking
How will this idea be used?

This will be used to ensure that our solution is robust a meets high availability requirements which extend to the SQL DB and its associated cloud infrastructure.
  • Admin
    Mark Allen
    Reply
    |     Jan 22, 2025

    IBM has evaluated the request and has determined that it cannot be implemented at this time or does not align with our current strategy or roadmap.

      • We currently do not support Azure SQL Hyperscale and it is not recommended to use

      • We haven't invested in a full test cycle because our L3 team has seen several cases where customers encounter problems with using SQL Managed instance in production and Hyperscale has less throughput than Managed Instance

      • From what we have observed in the field, there are known performance problems with the Azure SQL Hyperscale tier that were fixed by going back to a more standard MSSQL deployment

      • adding the hyperscale features on top of Azure SQL degrades the overall performance of the DB

      • Based on our experience, the elastic pools don't scale up/down fast enough for an OLTP heavy application like B2Bi/SFG despite being positioned as a solution for large amounts of data

      • This option is giving up performance for resiliency when choosing Hyperscale - replication takes away from throughput needed for good performance of B2Bi/SFG in a production deployment

      • We have no intention to add Azure SQL Hyperscale support in the future

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