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Our Vision

Unleash the Full Potential of MySQL

Data powers a vast range of business processes, applications, and products today. The underlying database is clear mission-critical infrastructure. The open-source MySQL database is widely used in datacenters because of its functionality, comparative ease-of-use, and low cost.

Business hates downtime that costs revenue, customers, and reputation. It hates to lose data or base decisions on stale or corrupted data. It wants great performance and easy scalability. It wants higher productivity with solutions that offer fast payback through lower capital and operating expenses for the database. But it's been hard to get 99.999% availability, no data loss, easy scalability, and simple administration from MySQL.

Until now. Schooner has enhanced MySQL to make it the best choice for the most demanding mission-critical database applications.

We created two innovative out-of-the-box software products for your standard x86 Dell, HP and IBM servers:

• SchoonerSQL™: Our enterprise-grade OLTP database gives you 99.999% availability, guarantees no lost or stale data, does immediate and automatic failover and recovery across LAN or WAN, supports unlimited scaling, and radically simplifies cluster administration. SchoonerSQL is a full 100%-compatible build of MySQL and its standard InnoDB storage engine.
• Membrain™: Our smart memcached, optimized for flash memory, is a high-performance high-availability software cache and persistent key-value store. Membrain is used as a front-end to MySQL or another database, or standalone. Membrain is ideal when your cache doesn't fit into DRAM and you're tired of sharding and server sprawl.

The Schooner Difference

SchoonerSQL and Membrain are enhanced and optimized for maximum parallelism, making them far more efficient than the traditional distributions. Schooner is also a world leader in database replication and failover technology. Schooner software artfully exploits the power of modern commodity technology — x86 servers with multi-core processors and high-speed networking — to deliver 5 9s availability with great performance. SchoonerSQL and Membrain aggressively manage all elements of your server hardware — the cores, persistent storage, and DRAM — to simultaneously eliminate multiple bottlenecks and very efficiently utilize your hardware.

Traditional builds of MySQL and memcached aren't designed to do this. Schooner's software is. Yet SchoonerSQL is 100% compatible with Oracle MySQL and Membrain is 100% memcapable. Install our software and see how easily and seamlessly it fits into your infrastructure.

Why the Name Schooner?

In their day, schooners were the fastest ships on the sea. They were prized for their ability to carry large loads with speed, agility, and minimal crew. Schooners revolutionized global trade by carrying cargo quickly and cheaply around the world. Schooner was founded to bring that same revolutionary economic impact to the database market.

Scale smart, with Schooner.