• Overview
  • SchoonerSQL
  • Membrain
    • Benchmarking NoSQL
    • Reducing TCO through Dramatic Server Consolidation
    • Minimizing Downtime with Schooner Replication and Failover
    • 100% Memcapable Memcached
    • Using the Same Server for a Transient Cache and a Persistent Data Store
  • Supported Platforms
  • Pricing and Licensing

Membrain

The Smart Memcached, Optimized for Flash Memory

A software cache is often used, standalone or in front of a database, to increase application performance. Memcached is the most widely-used software cache, powering many high-volume web sites. But traditional memcached has a dark side. The need to keep your data in DRAM to get great performance can lead to excessive sharding, across many servers that are inefficiently utilized.

Transform Your Datacenter with Membrain

Membrain is our massively multi-threaded implementation of memcached, optimized to exploit flash memory. Membrain delivers order-of-magnitude server consolidation, greatly simplifying your datacenter scaleout for capacity and performance. Membrain also delivers persistence, for use as a highly-efficient NoSQL data store, and enterprise-grade synchronous replication and immediate failover.

With Membrain, you can:

• Cut your TCO (total cost of ownership) by 70% or more, through server consolidation of 8-to-1 or greater;
• Slash downtime by 90% thanks to superfast synchronous replication and immediate failover between pairs of Membrain-powered servers;
• Enjoy extreme operational flexibility through dynamic containers which allow each server to host separate memcached or persistent data stores.

Membrain is 100% memcapable, including binary protocol, for install-and-go usage. Membrain runs on your commodity x86 servers with flash drives.

Membrain or SchoonerSQL?

Sometimes, you really just need a fast cache. But sometimes you really want full queries or transactions, and the comfort of SQL — but worry that no relational database can be fast enough. That explains a lot of the interest in MongoDB, Couchbase, and the legion of other NoSQL data stores.

Test vanilla memcached and NoSQL offerings such as Couchbase and MongoDB to see the Membrain advantage when your data does not fit in DRAM:

The Membrain Flash Advantage

SchoonerSQL™, our full build of MySQL and InnoDB, outperforms every NoSQL data store other than Membrain. If you need a great cache or NoSQL store, consider Membrain. If you need the full power and data integrity of an ACID relational database but thought that MySQL can't scale to your needs, think again. Check out SchoonerSQL.

See For Yourself

Get a first-hand look at what Membrain and SchoonerSQL can do for your organization. Arrange a download and free 21-day trial.

Scale smart, with Schooner.