SchoonerSQL

Get 99.999% High Availability from MySQL and InnoDB

In many organizations, the database runs the show. That's one of the main reasons why MySQL is so popular. But relying on MySQL for the most mission-critical enterprise workloads? That's been way harder than it ought to be.

Anyone who's ever tried to get 5 9s availability with great performance from MySQL knows its limitations. Anyone who has ever had to track down and recover from a MySQL failure appreciates the meaning of manual, tedious and error-prone. Anyone who has spent time and money on sharding knows how expensive that can be.

SchoonerSQL™: A Breakthrough in MySQL

SchoonerSQL™ is our full 100%-compatible distribution of MySQL and its standard InnoDB storage engine, with unique Schooner enhancements and optimizations. SchoonerSQL goes beyond the traditional distributions to deliver 99.999% service availability, highest data integrity, automated failover, easy scaling, and radically simplified cluster administration. SchoonerSQL is the MySQL workhorse you always needed for your demanding mission-critical use cases, on your standard Dell, HP and IBM x86 servers.

Schooner solves the replication problems of traditional MySQL (5.1, 5.5, and the future 5.6), adding multi-threaded (parallel) replication that exploits the power of the multi-core processors in your commodity servers. SchoonerSQL:

Does high-speed fully synchronous replication across a LAN
Does high-speed asynchronous replication across LAN or WAN
Guarantees no lost, stale, or corrupt data, and no slave lag
Provides immediate automated failover across LAN or WAN
Offers unlimited read scaling
Offers unlimited write scaling (through our integration with dbShards)
Radically simplifies cluster administration
Delivers great performance on hard drives, flash drives, and SAN

All of this adds up to deliver 5 9s availability with all of the comfort and familiarity of MySQL and InnoDB. You get the goodies without the hassle of rolling your own, struggling with add-ons like DRBD or Tungsten, or wasting money on custom hardware such as Clustrix.

You'll see substantial savings on servers and on the power, pipe, and people to run them. Not to mention the real money you save by slashing downtime 95% compared to traditional MySQL. Your DBAs will know a new tranquility from less hassle, and will be free to tackle your backlog.

Learn More

You can get a lot more detail from these Schooner whitepapers:

The Short Guide to MySQL High Availability Options: 8 pages, discussing the available approaches to HA with MySQL;
Mission-Critical MySQL and InnoDB: 11 pages, discussing what it takes to achieve HA with MySQL and why SchoonerSQL delivers;
The Top 10 Reasons Why MySQL Experts Switch to SchoonerSQL: 16 pages, on the key operational advantages that lead customers to buy SchoonerSQL.

See for Yourself

In fact, we think that SchoonerSQL is the most cost-effective OLTP database, bar none, for demanding mission-critical apps. Do a free 21-day trial of SchoonerSQL.

Scale smart, with Schooner.