Company

Schooner Information Technology, part of SanDisk’s Enterprise Storage Solutions (ESS) business unit, delivers cost-effective, enterprise-grade database software that frees customers from the traditional tradeoffs between availability, performance and total cost of ownership (TCO). Schooner's proven, cost-effective offerings include SchoonerSQL, which is 100% compatible with MySQL for easy adoption, and the complementary Membrain data store and software cache. Schooner supports a variety of customers across technology, entertainment, financial services and telecommunications industries.

Free Your Data Base and Data Store from Compromise

Data powers a vast range of business processes, applications, and products today. The underlying database and cache or data store are clear mission-critical infrastructure.

Business hates downtime that costs revenue, customers, and reputation. Business hates to lose data or base decisions on stale or corrupted data. Business wants great performance and higher productivity with solutions that offer fast payback through lower capital and operating expenses. But you've always had to compromise when using traditional databases and caches. You couldn't get high availability and high performance and the lowest possible total cost of ownership.

Until now. Schooner frees your data with 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 for easy adoption.
• 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. Membrain is 100% compatible with memcached for easy adoption.

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. And if you use flash memory (SSDs), SchoonerSQL and Membrain have even more powerful unique optimizations that deliver even greater performance and savings.

Traditional SQL databases, memcached, and NoSQL data stores 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.

Free your data, with Schooner.