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Welcome to the Schooner Information Technology resource section. We encourage you to check out the collateral below, visit our blog, and feel free to ask specific questions directly to one of our Schooner subject matter experts at .

White Papers

SchoonerSQL Optimizes InnoDB for Top Performance

SchoonerSQL™ eliminates the chokepoints in traditional MySQL and InnoDB, while retaining 100% compatibility. SchoonerSQL is tuned for extensive multi-threading to exploit the parallelism inherent in commodity servers using multi-core x86 processors.

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Achieving Five 9s with SchoonerSQL

See how you can use SchoonerSQL's mix of highly-parallel synchronous and asynchronous replication coupled with immediate and automated failover across LAN, MAN, or WAN to get five 9s availability from MySQL and its standard InnoDB storage engine.

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Top 10 Reasons why MySQL Experts Switch to SchoonerSQL

Learn what customers see in SchoonerSQL™, and how it makes life easier for the DBAs and other operations professionals responsible for the care and feeding of MySQL databases in the modern datacenter.

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Top 7 Reasons Why DBAs Love the SchoonerSQL™ Cluster Admin GUI

SchoonerSQL was designed for breakthrough ease of use. It has a complete robust centralized Cluster Admin GUI that makes it radically easier for DBAs to do their jobs.

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The Short Guide to MySQL HA Options

The data driving mission-critical business applications is growing explosively. It's getting harder for IT managers to meet the accelerating demands for service availability, data integrity, and performance scalability they need from their database deployments. This white paper provides a high-level discussion of MySQL high-availability alternatives. It analyzes the range of asynchronous (MySQL 5.1), semi-synchronous (MySQL 5.5), and fully synchronous (SchoonerSQL) replication solutions. The alternatives are compared in terms of what they can offer toward better downtime, data integrity, performance, scalability, and administrative ease.

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Schooner Membrain: The Flash-Optimized Memcached Cache And NoSQL Key-Value Store

Membrain™ is Schooner’s flash-optimized 100%-memcapable memached cache and NoSQL key-value store. Learn about some of the secret sauce in Membrain and see how it brings massive economic advantages to today’s datacenter.

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Mission-Critical MySQL and InnoDB

Maintaining high service availability, low response time, and easy scalability is mission-critical for many applications and services including e-commerce, social media, gaming, finance, and telecommunications. This white paper discusses the requirements, evaluation criteria, and alternatives for datacenter managers who need to deliver mission-critical services using MySQL databases. It examines the limitations of today's traditional MySQL offerings. It discusses SchoonerSQL and its dramatic impact on enabling truly mission-critical use of MySQL, and compares SchoonerSQL to the other alternatives.

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Data Sheets

SchoonerSQL

SchoonerSQL™ is our full OLTP database that offers 99.999% high availability with high performance for the most demanding mission-critical applications. SchoonerSQL guarantees no lost or stale data, cuts both planned and unplanned downtime with instant automated failover over LAN and WAN, and provides unlimited read scaling, unlimited write scaling, and easy cluster administration. And it's 100% compatible with MySQL and its standard storage engine, InnoDB.

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Read the more detailed FAQ (PDF)

Membrain

Membrain™ is a complete enterprise-grade NoSQL data store based on the memcached API, which may also be used as pure memcached. Membrain was written with extensive multi-threading and optimized to deliver superb performance from multi-core x86 processors and large amounts of flash memory. Membrain supports fully synchronous pair-wise replication and automated failover.

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Supported Platforms

Schooner software products run on most multi-core x86 servers and blades from HP, Dell, and IBM, running Red Hat Linux or CentOS. Learn more about supported platforms.

Download SchoonerSQL or Schooner Membrain for a free trial, and see for yourself on your x86 hardware.

Case Studies

Gutefrage

Learn how German website Gutefrage, or "good question," used SchoonerSQL to cut capex, cut opex, and help its ops team relax. Gutefrage has run SchoonerSQL on Dell and IBM x86 servers.

Read the case study (PDF)

GWDG

Learn how the Society for Scientific Data Processing at Göttingen uses SchoonerSQL to get high availability, high performance, and simpler administration in support of its users.

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Webinars

Best Practice #1: Spend Less for High Availability

Available on demand February 15th

Best Practice #2: Avoid Vendor Lock-in by Creating an IT Menu

March 8th
10:00 am PST / 1:00 pm EST

Best Practice #3: Stop Trading Performance for High Availability

April 12th
10:00 am PST / 1:00 pm EST

Radically Simpler Database Admin: A Tour of the SchoonerSQL GUI

Available on demand February 15th

Using Auto-Failover Across WAN in SchoonerSQL

March 22nd
10:00 am PST / 1:00 pm EST

Replication, Readmasters, and Redundancy

April 26th
10:00 am PST / 1:00 pm EST

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