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Schooner MySQL offers the best performance, best price-performance, highest reliability, and lowest risk of any MySQL offering. How do we deliver such compelling advantages over the roll-your-own solution using best-of-breed components?

Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, said in May 2010 that best-of-breed is good for dog shows, but not for software. Schooner fully exploits common, reliable, leading-edge hardware and software components. We rely on the relentless march of Moore's law by the industry leaders in processor and flash memory technology. But we don't leave you with a bag of parts to assemble, integrate, and tune. That's why Schooner MySQL is "best-of-show."

We take MySQL Enterprise and InnoDB, put them on a standard IBM x86 2U server with two dual-core Xeon processors, add fast Intel X-25E flash memory, and optimize the heck out of the combination for absolute top performance. We fully exploit the power of multi-core processors and the capabilities of flash memory, simultaneously removing multiple performance bottlenecks, to deliver by far the best performing MySQL available anywhere.

You buy Schooner MySQL fully tuned and ready to go. It's certified by Oracle as 100% compatible MySQL Enterprise with InnoDB. It's based on the mainstream code with the highest quality standards and most thorough testing. You don't need to devote staff or internal consulting time to making it work because it works as soon as you plug it in and turn it on.

If you're using MySQL 5.1 you can literally install and be up and running Schooner MySQL in an afternoon, saving money and freeing up your old hardware for reuse elsewhere. Our turnkey server approach means that you can realize dramatic performance gains immediately and scale easily as your demand grows.

Why waste money on MySQL scale out based on hard drives or expensive second-best flash drives from Fusion-io or its equivalents? Do you really want to spend time as your own systems integrator, when you can buy twice the performance from Schooner for less money, less hassle, and zero risk?

Contact Schooner sales to analyze and evaluate your demanding MySQL workload. We'll show you how to save on capex, save on opex, and scale out to meet your MySQL capacity, performance, and availability needs in a flash.