MySQL

Finland-based NetHawk announced it has selected Sun Microsystems’ MySQL Embedded Database Server software in order to meet its stringent requirements for application speed, scalability and 24x7 availability – at half the cost of other databases.

NetHawk is a leading provider of telecommunications network analyzers and simulators. With a mission to enhance the quality and user experience of converged 2G, 3G and LTE networks, NetHawk provides software-based network testing and monitoring tools and services for telecoms and VoIP equipment manufacturers and operators.

As NetHawk began to develop its new 24/7 multi-technology network monitoring system – NetHawk EYE, they evaluated a range of potential database solutions run on commodity hardware. By purchasing MySQL OEM licenses from Sun, NetHawk had the flexibility to embed and ship MySQL as part of NetHawk EYE network monitoring system at a 50% lower database cost. Moreover, NetHawk makes extensive use of the MySQL Enterprise Monitor and Query Analyzer during its development phase in order to reduce Database Administrator and developer effort in managing the database and optimizing queries.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced an update to its MySQL Enterpriseâ„¢ subscription, designed to assist corporate users improve the speed and uptime of their MySQLâ„¢ database applications. Thirty-day trial subscriptions of the new MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 Release are now available free-of-charge from http://www.mysql.com/trials.

Graphical enhancements to the MySQL Enterprise Monitor's Query Analyzer help DBAs and developers to better pinpoint database queries to avoid performance problems. With new visual correlation graphs, problem queries can now be filtered and analyzed by highlighting specific time-periods of interest with a few mouse-clicks - making it easier to quickly find spikes in key system resources, and fix problems rooted in inefficient SQL code.
MySQL Enterprise: Features & Benefits

Finland-based NetHawk  announced it has selected Sun Microsystems’ MySQL Embedded Database Server software in order to meet its stringent requirements for application speed, scalability and 24x7 availability – at half the cost of other databases.

NetHawk is a leading provider of telecommunications network analyzers and simulators. With a mission to enhance the quality and user experience of converged 2G, 3G and LTE networks, NetHawk provides software-based network testing and monitoring tools and services for telecoms and VoIP equipment manufacturers and operators.

As NetHawk began to develop its new 24/7 multi-technology network monitoring system – NetHawk EYE, they evaluated a range of potential database solutions run on commodity hardware. By purchasing MySQL OEM licenses from Sun, NetHawk had the flexibility to embed and ship MySQL as part of NetHawk EYE network monitoring system at a 50% lower database cost. Moreover, NetHawk makes extensive use of the MySQL Enterprise Monitor and Query Analyzer during its development phase in order to reduce Database Administrator and developer effort in managing the database and optimizing queries.

"MySQL handles 20,000 write operations per second from the NetHawk EYE network monitoring system and generates up to 8 Tera-Bytes of data comprising 10-20 billion rows per month, all accessed by multiple client systems in the operator’s Operations & Maintenance Center," said Markus Weiland, Product Manager for NetHawk EYE. "MySQL’s efficient partitioning of tables and indexes has enabled our product to better manage and perform with these massive data sets."

NetHawk EYE’s databases provide a range of critical capabilities for both the efficient storage and retrieval of network data from the converged networks. To diagnose network issues in real-time, NetHawk needed EYE database to deliver the highest levels of availability and throughput, with the lowest response times. They also required the database to be massively scalable in order to handle ever-increasing network traffic and subscriber volumes – and to be flexible that it could be structured to store and retrieve data over varying periods of time for trend analysis by its operators.

"We're delighted that one of the leading manufacturers of testing tools for telecom networks is running on MySQL Embedded Server," said Matti Rantanen, MySQL Nordic Telecoms Sales Manager at Sun Microsystems. "By powering NetHawk’s flagship product with MySQL, the subscriber experience is improved through high reliability and performance which is key in the highly competitive communications industry."

About Sun's MySQL Database

MySQL is the most popular open source database software in the world. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, critical business systems, communications networks, and commercial software. At http://www.mysql.com, Sun provides corporate users with premium subscriptions and services, and actively supports the large MySQL open source developer community.

About NetHawk

NetHawk, founded in 1991, is a leading provider of telecommunications network analyzers and simulators. NetHawk products and systems are used in the development and operation of telecommunications networks by leading communications equipment manufacturers and operators worldwide. NetHawk employs about 350 specialists who focus on the development, production, sales, and marketing of testing tools for converging networks. Headquartered in Oulu, Finland, NetHawk has local offices in Sweden, Germany, France, India, Singapore, China, U.A.E, and the United States. In addition, a wide network of distributors ensures local service all over the world

Joyent, the leading vendor in Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing, announced today that it is taking the proven performance and reliability of Sun Microsystems' MySQL database to a whole new level by offering optimizations to the Joyent Cloud for MySQL. Joyent and Sun’s database group have teamed up to create Virtual Appliance templates for MySQL.

Joyent's Virtual Appliance for MySQL is configured to maximize the open source database's performance on Joyent's powerful, secure and stable virtualization technology. Performance benchmarks (www.joyent.com/mysql) demonstrate that Joyent's Virtual Appliance for MySQL can deliver 3 times the number of Transactions per Second than comparable deployments of XEN-based clouds, such as Amazon's EC2.

"Running Read-Only tests, our internal benchmarks show that a 1GB Virtual Appliance for MySQL in the Joyent cloud can perform 1,245 transactions per second with 8 threads," said Jason Hoffman, Joyent CTO and Founder. "A more expensive 7.5 GB large instance on Amazon EC2 only manages 425 transactions per second with the same 8 threads."

Joyent has made it easy to launch a Virtual Appliance for MySQL as a single instance or as part of a Web-scale architecture.

"MySQL is pre-installed and optimized on the Joyent Cloud," said Hoffman. "From the minute you get your login credentials, you are ready to go: deployment could not be easier. Dual-Master or Master-Slave configurations will also soon be available as pre-defined architectures."

 

The Joyent Virtual Appliance for MySQL is available based on a typical cloud model. Users can scale up and down when they need to -- and pay for only the infrastructure they use. There are no contracts to lock-in users. Additionally, the Joyent Virtual Appliance for MySQL Enterprise is fully supported by the MySQL database experts at Sun.

"MySQL is the most-used database in today’s Cloud environments," said Rich Nigro, MySQL Managed Hosting Business Manager, Sun Microsystems. "We are delighted to see that Joyent is making this dedicated MySQL offering available to users of the popular Joyent Cloud."

The Joyent Cloud has many customers benefiting from MySQL, and there are several case studies of how the optimized implementation has driven application performance, operational stability and value.

"Context Optional provides scalable solutions for brand marketing across social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter," said Rafi Jacoby, Director of Engineering at Context Optional. "We've built and deployed viral applications for Kraft, Toyota, McDonald's, MTV/Viacom, and many other Fortune 500 brands using MySQL running on the Joyent Cloud. We've been impressed with performance and uptime, with several databases having run more than a billion queries with no downtime."

MySQL is the most popular open source database software in the world. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, critical business systems, communications networks, and commercial software. At http://www.mysql.com, Sun provides corporate users with premium subscriptions and services, and actively supports the large MySQL open source developer community.

About Joyent, Inc.

Joyent is a vendor of 'Infrastructure as a Service' (IaaS), a.k.a Cloud Computing. Joyent provides a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to buying and running your own IT infrastructure, while still providing all the security, cost stability, and enterprise-grade performance of a dedicated private data center. The Joyent Cloud is built using the company’s unique networking and virtualization technology, the Joyent Accelerator. Joyent's shared hosting, virtual appliances, free developer programs and Cloud Computing products leverage the Joyent Accelerator to provide our customers with unparalleled Cloud Computing performance and value.

Joyent was founded in 2004 with a seed investment from co-founder and CEO David Young and Pay Pal co-founder Peter Thiel. Since then, Joyent has grown organically and has been completely funded by revenue. Joyent's customers include LinkedIn, Major League Baseball, Gilt.com, Facebook, and 20,000 other companies ranging from small development shops to large Fortune 500 enterprise users. Joyent powers 25% of the daily application traffic on Facebook