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White Papers

Achieving Five 9s with SchoonerSQL

See 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 get five 9s 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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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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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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