Resource Manager¶

In an environment with multiple concurrent user sessions that run queries, not all user sessions have the same importance. You may want to give more priority to queries executed by transactional applications, which need an immediate response, than to queries executed to generate a daily report.

The Resource Manager allows you to classify sessions into groups based on the attributes of the session, and to allocate resources to those groups in a way that optimizes resources utilization for your application environment.

The Resource Manager introduces two main concepts:

• Plans

• Rules

A “plan” is a set of restrictions assigned to a user session. For example: limit the number of concurrent queries the same user can run, limit the maximum number of rows of the queries’ results, etc.

A “rule” assigns a “plan” to the session of a user if a certain condition is met. This condition can use any of the attributes of the session. I.e. user name, access interface used by the application (JDBC, ODBC, etc.), IP address, etc.

For every SELECT or CALL, the Resource Manager evaluates the condition of the first rule. If it is met, it assigns the plan of the rule to this user session. If the condition is not met, it evaluates the condition of the second rule. If the condition is not met either, it evaluates the condition of the next rule and so on, until it finds a rule that meets the condition or there are no more rules.

This process occurs before the execution engine executes the query.

For example, you can create a plan that limits the number of rows returned by a query to 100,000; and create a rule with the condition access interface = Web service. By doing this, you limit to a hundred thousand the number of rows returned by any Web service.

The Resource Manager is enabled by default. To check that it is currently enabled, click Resource Manager, on the Administration menu. Then, in the Configuration tab, check that the selected option is On.