• Overview
  • Why an Appliance
  • MySQL Appliance
  • Memcached/NoSQL Appliance
  • Slashing Your TCO
  • IBM x3650 M2 Platform
  • The Schooner Advantage

MySQL Appliance

Relative to MySQL deployments on traditional servers, the Schooner Appliance for MySQL Enterprise with InnoDB (Schooner MySQL Appliance) delivers order-of-magnitude improvements in performance, scaling, downtime, power, and space, while cutting total cost of ownership (TCO) by more than 60%. Schooner's tight integration of flash memory, DRAM, multi-core processors, high-performance interconnects, and optimized data-access technologies brings you more efficient and available MySQL for your datacenter operations and enables new revenue-producing business opportunities based on rapid access to highly available terabyte-scale data.

The Schooner Appliance offers, among other things, the following unique features:

• Industry-leading performance, with up to 6x-10x performance improvement over traditional MySQL solutions;
• Fully certified as 100% compatible by Oracle/Sun/MySQL, making it easy to integrate into existing environments;
• Consolidates up to 8 and more traditional MySQL servers into one appliance, significantly reducing capital expense, energy consumption, rack space, and networking requirements;
• Greatly simplifies the scaling needed to meet rapidly growing data requirements by reducing the need for sharding across multiple masters, and allowing the consolidation of slaves;
• Delivers comprehensive data and service availability through the integration of a rich set of high-availability/disaster-recovery (HA/DR) features, including replication, backup & restore, and RAID;
• Guarantees database durability and consistency;
• Available with 1/2 TB or 1 TB of flash memory, delivered on an IBM x3650 server.

Schooner customers highly value the consolidation and TCO savings made possible by the Schooner Appliance. For example, a social networking company saw an immediate 9x throughput improvement using Schooner. Another achieved a 10:1 reduction in the number of slaves by using the Schooner Appliance rather than traditional MySQL servers, realizing significant reductions in TCO, power, space consumption, and application complexity.

Schooner customers also highly value the ability to effectively run large master databases with very high throughput and excellent response time, reducing sharding. For example, by using the Schooner Appliance rather than traditional MySQL servers, a Web-2.0 financial services company is achieving a 5x performance improvement in query response time and throughput for business analytics applications that require heavy dynamic updates and inserts against their 1TB MySQL database.

Whatever your application, if you use MySQL and want more power, better availability, and less cost, choose Schooner.