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Welcome to the Schooner Information Technology resource section. We encourage you to check out the collateral below, visit our blog, and feel free to ask specific questions directly to one of our Schooner subject matter experts at Expert@SchoonerInfoTech.com

White Papers

Achieving 99.999% Uptime with SchoonerSQL

In this whitepaper, learn more about high availability strategy and business continuity planning requirements. 99.999% uptime (or “five nines”) will be defined, discussed and illustrated using a variety of use cases. Learn how you can use SchoonerSQL’s mix of highly-parallel synchronous and asynchronous replication coupled with immediate and automated failover across LAN, MAN or WAN to realize 99.999% availability from MySQL and its standard InnoDB storage engine.

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Top 10 Reasons why MySQL Experts Switch to SchoonerSQL

Learn what customers see in SchoonerSQL™, and how it makes life easier for the DBAs and other operations professionals responsible for the care and feeding of MySQL databases in the modern datacenter.

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Schooner Membrain: The Flash-Optimized Memcached Cache And NoSQL Key-Value Store

Membrain™ is Schooner’s flash-optimized 100%-memcapable memached cache and NoSQL key-value store. Learn about some of the secret sauce in Membrain and see how it brings massive economic advantages to today’s datacenter.

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Mission-Critical MySQL and InnoDB

Maintaining high service availability, low response time, and easy scalability is mission-critical for many applications and services including e-commerce, social media, gaming, finance, and telecommunications. This white paper discusses the requirements, evaluation criteria, and alternatives for datacenter managers who need to deliver mission-critical services using MySQL databases. It examines the limitations of today's traditional MySQL offerings. It discusses SchoonerSQL and its dramatic impact on enabling truly mission-critical use of MySQL, and compares SchoonerSQL to the other alternatives.

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Top 7 Reasons Why DBAs Love the SchoonerSQL™ Cluster Admin GUI

SchoonerSQL was designed for breakthrough ease of use. It has a complete robust centralized Cluster Admin GUI that makes it radically easier for DBAs to do their jobs.

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The Short Guide to MySQL HA Options

The data driving mission-critical business applications is growing explosively. It's getting harder for IT managers to meet the accelerating demands for service availability, data integrity, and performance scalability they need from their database deployments. This white paper provides a high-level discussion of MySQL high-availability alternatives. It analyzes the range of asynchronous (MySQL 5.1), semi-synchronous (MySQL 5.5), and fully synchronous (SchoonerSQL) replication solutions. The alternatives are compared in terms of what they can offer toward better downtime, data integrity, performance, scalability, and administrative ease.

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SchoonerSQL Optimizes InnoDB for Top Performance

SchoonerSQL™ eliminates the chokepoints in traditional MySQL and InnoDB, while retaining 100% compatibility. SchoonerSQL is tuned for extensive multi-threading to exploit the parallelism inherent in commodity servers using multi-core x86 processors.

Read the tech note (PDF)

Data Sheets

SchoonerSQL

SchoonerSQL™ is our full OLTP database that offers 99.999% high availability with high performance for the most demanding mission-critical applications. SchoonerSQL guarantees no lost or stale data, cuts both planned and unplanned downtime with instant automated failover over LAN and WAN, and provides unlimited read scaling, unlimited write scaling, and easy cluster administration. And it's 100% compatible with MySQL and its standard storage engine, InnoDB.

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Is SchoonerSQL right for you? Five factors to help you decide

Read the Migration services to SchoonerSQL delivered by Ispirer

Membrain

Membrain™ is a complete enterprise-grade NoSQL data store based on the memcached API, which may also be used as pure memcached. Membrain was written with extensive multi-threading and optimized to deliver superb performance from multi-core x86 processors and large amounts of flash memory. Membrain supports fully synchronous pair-wise replication and automated failover.

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Supported Platforms

Schooner software products run on most multi-core x86 servers and blades from HP, Dell, and IBM, running Red Hat Linux or CentOS. Learn more about supported platforms.

Download SchoonerSQL or Schooner Membrain for a free trial, and see for yourself on your x86 hardware.

Case Studies

Gutefrage

Learn how German website Gutefrage, or "good question," used SchoonerSQL to cut capex, cut opex, and help its ops team relax. Gutefrage has run SchoonerSQL on Dell and IBM x86 servers.

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GWDG

Learn how the Society for Scientific Data Processing at Göttingen uses SchoonerSQL to get high availability, high performance, and simpler administration in support of its users.

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Webinars

Check out these two new webinar series featuring Schooner subject matter experts and special guest speakers who will discuss pertinent and timely issues around high availability, performance and TCO.

Database Best Practices for 2012: A Roadmap to Lower TCO

Intended for IT Directors, C-level executives and their direct reports. If your organization suffers from unavailable, inaccurate or less-than-instantaneous access to its data, and struggles to strike a balance between affordable IT solutions and those that really deliver, join this webinar series to learn more about high availability paradigm shifts and business continuity best practices.

  • Best Practice #1: Spend Less for High Availability.
    Learn more about business continuity and why it matters. Plus, get a C-level perspective on how to evaluate and choose the right high availability solutions for your organization based on performance and availability requirements, as well as budget limitations.
    Watch on demand. (32 minutes)
  • Ethan Erchinger
    Ethan Erchinger
    Best Practice #2: Stop Trading Performance for High Availability
    Learn how new technologies are offering IT decision makers an alternative that delivers both high performance and high availability at a lower cost than status-quo solutions. This discussion features moderator Julie Bryce Munro, Senior Director of Marketing of Schooner, and panelists Ethan Erchinger, VP of Operations and Solution Architecture of Plaxo, and Jerry Rudisin, CEO and President of Schooner.
    Watch on demand. (48 minutes)

  • Rick Cattell
    Rick Cattell
    Free Your Data; Free Your Budget: New Choices in the Enterprise Database Market
    Join us for a business discussion aimed at helping IT decision makers make better choices to protect their buying power, while lowering the overall license and support costs associated with maintaining their IT data centers. Before you default to your existing high availability database vendor for your next new deployment, listen to this webinar.
    We are fortunate to have secured a special guest speaker, Dr. Rick Cattell, technology writer and independent consultant on database systems, to join this webinar discussion. Dr. Cattell will be joined by Jerry Rudisin, Schooner CEO and President, and moderator, Julie Bryce Munro, Schooner Senior Director of Marketing.
    Watch on demand. (40 minutes)

Tips, Tricks and Tools to Improve DBA Quality of Life: A Schooner Tech Series

Intended for DBAs and Sys Admins responsible for managing, monitoring and maintaining data centers.

  • Radically Simpler Database Admin: A Tour of the SchoonerSQL GUI
    We tackle the current challenges and risks facing DBAs today charged with managing and maintaining mission critical databases. Take a live demo of the GUI in SchoonerSQL to see first-hand how you can automate many mundane and repeatable time-consuming tasks so you have more time to tackle that backlog or work IT projects strategic to your organization.
    Watch on demand. (29 minutes)
  • Jamila Gunawardena
    Jamila Gunawardena
    How to Get Lightning-Fast Performance with Membrain 4.0 and Fusion-io
    A discussion on the latest release of Schooner Membrain (version 4.0) and how pairing it with Fusion-io ioMemory results in DRAM-like performance with the persistence of flash, providing a low-latency solution that accelerates database performance, reduces painful sharding and drives business value through increased server utilization.
    Watch on demand. (40 minutes)

  • Pavan Venkatesh
    Pavan Venkatesh
    Replication, Read-Consistent Slaves, and Redundancy
    SchoonerSQL, with parallel appliers, has a unique approach to provide highly synchronous replication for OLTP environments. In this webinar, we will discuss various replication solutions. It also explains why SchoonerSQL offers the best synchronous replication solution and how read-consistent slaves (redundant database nodes) help your application stay online 24x7, providing 99.999% availability.
    Watch on demand. (36 minutes)

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