Schooner Information Technology Releases Most Advanced High-Availability MySQL and InnoDB Solution for Mission-Critical Use

SchoonerSQL™ 5.1 Delivers 99.999 Percent Availability with Highest Data Integrity, Performance and Scalability

SUNNYVALE, Calif., October 24, 2011 — Schooner Information Technology, Inc., which develops and markets high-availability (HA) high-performance MySQL software for mission-critical applications, today unveils SchoonerSQL™ v5.1. SchoonerSQL is a full build of the widely-used MySQL database and its standard InnoDB storage engine, with unique Schooner enhancements. SchoonerSQL delivers 99.999 percent service availability with full data integrity, immediate and automated failover and recovery across a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN), unlimited scaling with exceptional performance and high data consistency, and greatly simplified cluster administration.

SchoonerSQL was designed to address the needs of database administrators and datacenter managers who must deliver minimal downtime, ensure maximum service availability for their OLTP (online transaction processing) applications, and want the simplicity and low cost of a MySQL-based offering. Customers in a wide range of industries rely on SchoonerSQL for:

• Highest service availability, with completely automatic and immediate failover
• Highest data integrity, with cluster-wide data consistency to eliminate data loss and slave lag
• Highest query and update performance and scalability
• Dramatically simplified cluster management
• Integrated high-performance WAN replication and disaster recovery

"Schooner and its partners are putting together a powerful story in database scaling, clustering, and replication," said Curt Monash, president of Monash Research. "If you like the relational data model but want to scale out, SchoonerSQL is one of the first places you should look."

Schooner's parallel multi-threaded synchronous and asynchronous replication architecture delivers much better performance and reliability than traditional MySQL-based replication schemes. SchoonerSQL greatly improves throughput and eliminates both "slave lag" and the need to throttle back the master server to allow slave servers to stay current with the master. By substantially increasing throughput, SchoonerSQL reduces spending on database servers and the power, pipe, and people to run them.

SchoonerSQL also delivers immediate and automated failover and recovery both within a LAN and between datacenters connected by a WAN. SchoonerSQL allows customers to slash their downtime, whether from scheduled maintenance, unplanned hardware or software failures, or a disaster that takes down an entire datacenter, eliminating the tedious and error-prone manual processes traditionally required for failover and recovery.

"With SchoonerSQL, our customers reduce downtime, gain full data consistency, get automated failover, and make their database clusters much easier to administer," said Jerry Rudisin, chief executive officer for Schooner Information Technology. "Our latest version of our flagship product makes MySQL and its standard storage engine, InnoDB, the right choice for the most demanding applications. The direct cost savings from higher throughput, 99.999 percent service availability, and reduced administrative effort make SchoonerSQL a very compelling business choice for serious OLTP applications."

The new SchoonerSQL 5.1 release will be generally available in mid-November 2011. SchoonerSQL is supported on all widely-used x86 Red Hat / CentOS servers from Dell, HP, IBM, and may be downloaded for a free trial. Visit http://www.schoonerinfotech.com/free-trial/ for more information. Customers using the previous 3.1 release will receive 5.1 as part of the standard Schooner Customer Support service.

About Schooner Information Technology

Schooner provides 99.999 percent high-availability OLTP database software that is 100 percent compatible with MySQL and InnoDB, for the most demanding mission-critical use. SchoonerSQL™ guarantees no lost or stale data, cuts both planned and unplanned downtime with instant automated failover over LAN and WAN, provides unlimited scaling, and radically simplifies cluster administration. SchoonerSQL delivers superior performance and throughput, enabling dramatic datacenter footprint reductions and less sharding. With Schooner software, customers slash application downtime that costs them revenue, customers and reputation, and cut spending on database servers and the power, pipe, and people to run them. Schooner is privately-held and based in Sunnyvale, CA. For more information, please visit www.schoonerinfotech.com.

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