Category: CLUSTRIX

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Mike Azevedo. As a database vendor whose drop-in MySQL replacement database runs on-premise and on any cloud, we are often asked by our customers to guide them through a MySQL-compatible cloud database cost comparison. For this process, we have learned it is important to compare the total cost of ownership (TCO) of deploying ClustrixDB on different cloud platforms as compared to the MySQL-compatible offerings from the leading cloud vendors, such as AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure. We have discovered some hidden hard and soft costs that are important to consider. In this blog, we will share ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Mike Azevedo. As a database vendor whose drop-in MySQL replacement database runs on-premise and on any cloud, we are often asked by our customers to guide them through the process of comparing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of deploying ClustrixDB on different cloud platforms as compared to the MySQL-compatible offerings from those cloud vendors. In this process, we have discovered some hidden hard and soft costs that are important to consider. In this blog, we will share some of our learnings and a model for comparison that we hope will be helpful to those looking ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Joanna. Gaming Database Requirements A gaming database serves many masters. It needs to handle users, e-commerce shopping carts, quotas, leaderboards and game tools like weapons or race car features. For multi-player games this becomes more complex, and for businesses with multiple games that need to share this data, even more complex. The speed of ingestion and the quickness of queries in the database directly affects the user's experience of responsiveness in the game. Many games use an RDBMS, like MySQL. It stores game world state and essential persistence data. Large, persistent-world, massively multiplayer games, have a hugely complicated ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: BetterSQL. Last fall, we announced that our most recent generally-available release, ClustrixDB 9, supports deploying a single database across multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZs). With this release, Clustrix continues its commitment to provide application developers with both scale and high-availability so they don’t have to choose one over the other. Clustrix 9 also features numerous enhancement to performance, stability, and supportability. “The Clustrix mission has always been to provide a highly-scalable, distributed database that also provides high availability and ACID compliance,” said Mike Azevedo, CEO of Clustrix. “With an increasing number of our customers taking advantage of ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Peter Freidenbach. For years the Clustrix performance lab has been conducting performance benchmarks to assure ClustrixDB maintains its linear scalability in multiple environments, including the cloud. It’s been public knowledge for a while that ClustrixDB performs very well on Amazon Web Services (AWS), even scaling better than Aurora on AWS, particularly for heavy database loads requiring large clusters. For more on our performance tests on AWS, read Clustrix vs. Amazon Aurora Performance. In our most recent performance testing, we wanted to see how the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) stacked up against AWS as a platform for ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Joanna. Popular Bubble Group Messenger App Migrates to Self-Managing ClustrixDB to Scale Write-heavy Workload Clustrix, the provider of the world’s leading scale-out SQL database announced that Hit Labs, the company behind the Bubble Group Messaging app, has deployed ClustrixDB. This announcement adds Hit Labs to a dynamic list of social applications that have moved from Amazon Aurora and other MySQL derivatives to ClustrixDB due to its ability to scale well beyond the alternatives, without sharding or master-slave configurations, and without sacrificing any ACID properties. With ClustrixDB, Hit Labs saved six to eight months of development time ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Henry Hwang. This is the second blog in our series about ClustrixDB 9’s new Zones feature that supports creating Metro Area Clusters. If you missed the first blog “Database Metro Area Clustering Across Data Centers”, we recommend giving it a read since it provides a great overview of Metro Area Clustering. In this blog we’ll walk through the installation and configuration of ClustrixDB 9 using Zones, thereby creating a Metro Area Cluster. High-Level Steps Build a cluster with instances in three zones Assign nodes a zone ID ClustrixDB needs the servers it runs on to meet some ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: BetterSQL. Data integrity, high availability, and easy disaster recovery have always been a major requirement of our ClustrixDB customers. Their OLTP applications are mission-critical and often customer- or consumer-facing, which makes the acceptable margin for error virtually nil. Over the years we have brought a variety of innovations to market to meet these requirements, such as our patented ClustrixDB nResiliency for fault tolerance and the Clustrix Rebalancer that automatically optimizes data distribution for the number of available nodes. With the advent of networking between data centers within a metropolitan region, such as with AWS Availability Zones ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: bbruce. MySQL sharding comes with challenges. Previously we discussed application and design challenges that MySQL sharding requires. Today we’ll expand on the MySQL sharding business challenges that can result and affect your business flexibility. MySQL applications seeking scale often consider sharding. Sharding is a database architecture strategy in which the data workload is partitioned across multiple separate MySQL RDBMS servers. This kind of partitioning across separate servers allows MySQL applications to scale out writes as well as reads. And that’s not trivial; write scale isn’t something that read slaves or master-master solutions can provide to MySQL ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: bbruce. When people come up and ask, “Oh, so ClustrixDB is yet another MySQL-compatible database. What makes you different?” we have a terrific answer, and it’s all about horizontal scaling: ClustrixDB is the only MySQL compatible database that linearly scales-out both write and read queries. By horizontal scaling we mean each additional node added to a ClustrixDB cluster adds both linear write and read horizontal scale. This is significantly different from what MySQL can provide — as a single-node master architecture, MySQL can have multiple read slaves added, potentially providing at best only linear read scale ... Read More