MySQL data rules the cloud, but recent experience shows us that there's no substitute for maintaining copies of data, across availability zones, when it comes to Amazon Web Services (AWS) data resilience.
In this video (recording of our 8/23/12 webcast), we survey technologies for maintaining real-time copies of your data and the pros & cons of each. We conclude with a live demonstration of a
A while ago I had a discussion with someone about the future of server infrastructure. Among other things, we were wondering whether companies will continue to run on dedicated servers or if eventually everyone just ends up in a Cloud environment. During the discussion I raised a point that in principle Cloud is a great idea that will keep attracting more and more people, but it is missing one important piece that stops many from using it – a high performance storage. Apparently, this has just changed.
Yesterday I received an e-mail announcing a new EC2 instance type – hi1.4xlarge. It features 16 logical CPUs (35 ECUs), 60GB of RAM, and… two 1TB SSD-based disk volumes! These are great specs that should work for nearly any database. Even assuming someone has a MySQL database larger than 2TB, not all tables will require fast storage, while more disk space can be easily added by attaching regular EBS volumes.
I decided …
[Read more]Can OLTP database workloads use Amazon S3 as primary storage? Now they can, thanks to the Cloud Storage Engine (ClouSE), but the question is: how fast?
To answer the question about performance, we decided to run
db_STRESS benchmark on a MySQL database in Amazon
EC2. We compared 3 configurations:
ClouSE version 1.0b.1.2 and WordPress on S3 / Yapixx refresh is released
OblakSoft is pleased to announce the release of ClouSE version 1.0b.1.2 and WordPress on S3 / Yapixx refresh.
This release addresses performances and usability issues reported by our early adopters. Thank you all for your feedback.
Now ClouSE supports MySQL thru 5.5.25. To keep the distribution small, we don’t build binaries for MySQL prior to 5.5.14 anymore. If you need one, please contact us.
Now the content type for Weblobs is set based on their name. Previously, the content type for all Weblobs was set to application/octet-stream, which could lead to undesirable Web Browser behavior when the …
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In a previous post I wrote ARM based servers. Since then,
and thanks to all the comments and responses I got, I looked more
into this ARM thing and it's absolutely fascinating...
Look at this beauty (taken from the site of Calxeda,
the manufacturer):
What is it? A chip? A server? No, it's a cluster of 4
servers...
And this:
is HP Redstone Server, 288 chips, 1,152 cores (Calxeda
quad-core SoC) in a 4U server “Dramatically reducing the cost and
complexity of cabling and …
At a time when most companies are doing all they can to maintain the status quo, SkySQL is daring to imagine a new “normal”. We’re on a mission to change the way companies interact with and manage their data, both in the enterprise and in the cloud. Along with our strategic partners, in particular MariaDB, we’re working to develop new open source database solutions that challenge proprietary enterprise solutions and business models.
To help us achieve our goal, we’re looking for a few daring open source engineers to join our team and take on the status quo:
Hosted by Binlogic, the MySQL/NoSQL/Cloud Latin American Conference at the Hilton Buenos Aires in Argentina, June 26-28th, will bring together key members of the of open source database community for two intense days of technical talks and tutorials on popular open source databases like MySQL, MariaDB, and Drizzle; NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and CouchDB; and related technologies such as the Soir and Sphinx search engines.
Yesterday I was asked by a customer for the reason why he had
failed to achieve scale with a state-of-the-art "shared-storage"
cluster. "It's a scale-out to 4 servers, but with a shared disk.
And I got, after tons of work and efforts, 130% throughput,
not even close to the expected 400%" he said.
Well, scale-out cannot be achieved with a shared storage and the
word "shared" is the key. Scale-out is done with
absolutely nothing shared or a "shared-nothing"
architecture. This what makes it linear and
unlimited. Any shared resource, creates a tremendous burden
on each and every database server in the cluster.
In a previous post, I identified database engine
activities such as buffer management, locking, thread
locks/semaphores, and recovery tasks - as the main bottleneck in
the OLTP …
Yesterday, it was announced that SkySQL has raised an additional 2.5 million dollars in Series A funding from California Technology Ventures.
This comes along with the news of the new CEO, Patrik Sallner, taking the CEO role at SkySQL on July 1st.
Here are some relevant snippets:
“SkySQL also announced today that CTV, a venture capital fund that makes direct investments in technology and life science companies globally, invested an additional $2.5 million as part of the company’s recent A round of funding. With this latest investment, SkySQL has collected EUR 6 million to fund further growth.”
“About California Technology Ventures, LLC
California Technology Ventures, LLC is a venture capital fund
that makes direct investments in technology and life science
companies. CTV has built a strong reputation for its
entrepreneurial approach to investing and working with companies.
They believe in guiding …
In case you may have overlooked yesterday’s post from Ulf Sandberg, I thought I’d go ahead and reiterate the main points, as it is big news, at least for those interested in SkySQL.
SkySQL has been like a rocket ship with it’s growth since we started, and now we’re making some even bigger changes to help accelerate that effort further.
As Ulf announced, we’ve named a new CEO, Patrik Sallner, to take over after the initial bootstrap period.
Patrik, a former executive at F-Secure, will officially become CEO on July 1st. “Patrik comes to SkySQL with demonstrated experience in building international software and services businesses, including delivering cloud storage solutions to the world’s largest telecommunications operators. The addition of Patrik to SkySQL’s Leadership Team is a tremendous boon to …
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