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MySQL Enterprise Edition
- Zappos Uses MySQL to Power its Growth & Exceptional Customer Service
- Big Fish Games Triples Database Performance with MySQL Query Analyzer
- Clickability Dramatically Improves Performance and Scalability with MySQL Query Analyzer
MySQL Embedded Server
- F5 Relies on MySQL to Improve Performance 1000%
- Tralix Delivers High SLAs and Extreme Performance with MySQL
- MySQL Helps Simply Accounting by Sage Increase Revenue, Market Share, and Customer Satisfaction
- Conceivium Relies on MySQL to Perform Real-Time Analytics for BlackBerry Enterprise Server
- Adobe Relies on MySQL to Make Creative Professionals More Productive
MySQL Cluster
- Telemaque Deploys MySQL Cluster to Power Converged Call Center Services
- MySQL Cluster Scores with Pyro and Cell C at the FIFA World Cup
- MySQL Cluster Powers Leading Mobile Media Publishing Platform
- Shopatron uses MySQL Cluster to Power its Rapidly Growing eCommerce Service
- Plusnet Achieves Continuous Availability of AAA Services with MySQL Cluster
- Alcatel-Lucent uses MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition to Handle over 60 million Subscribers
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Waiting Room Solutions Relies on MySQL for Web-Based Medical Management Systems
Waiting Room Solutions (WRS) embeds MySQL in its award-winning web-based Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Practice Management System. WRS was looking for a robust database for enterprise-class web-based applications that provides security, data integrity, speed, performance, scalability and cost effectiveness, and chose MySQL over PostgreSQL.
"We required an open source solution that was well maintained, stable, and actively growing. In addition, we required a solution that offered access to enterprise support when needed. MySQL was the right choice for us," said Brad Hall, Systems Administrator at WRS. "The performance, scalability, and reliability delivered by MySQL with InnoDB has been excellent."
F5 Relies on MySQL to Improve Performance 1000%
F5 used MySQL with partitioning to increase performance over 1000%, which made a new real-time performance graphing product module possible. This new module became the F5 Enterprise Manager product's most compelling differentiator.
"Using MySQL with partitioning, we took our product from a maximum of 3,500 records per second to 22,000 records per second for a 6x performance gain. We're now at 10x performance from pre-partitioning levels and still haven't reached the max simply because we haven't had enough test machines. Our overall experience with MySQL has been extremely positive. MySQL has well-designed processes that provide the capabilities we need, including partitioning. And MySQL just runs and runs - our customers have never had to reboot."
Bruce Butterfield, Development Manager, F5
Tralix Delivers High SLAs and Extreme Performance with MySQL
Tralix Corporation is the e-invoicing and e-marketing market-share leader in Mexico, with customers who range from some of the largest companies in Mexico, such as Citigroup Banamex, Televisa, Telmex, and Google Mexico, to some of the smallest, sole-proprietor shops.
In January 2011, a new Mexican law will come into effect mandating that invoices over MXN 2000 (~USD160) are electronic. There are 3.5 million businesses in Mexico with tax ID numbers and approximately 35,000 of those, or just 1%, currently use electronic invoices. With MySQL as its e-invoicing products' database, hosted and appliance-based, Tralix is prepared to meet this huge increase in demand.
MySQL Powers the Market Leading Telecoms Network Management Framework
WebNMS, the leading network and element management solution, has been embedding MySQL as the default database for over ten years. To accommodate ever more stringent demands for availability and performance, WebNMS and MySQL can write up to 10 million rows daily and support 2,000 transactions per second across a replicated architecture and are positioned to address the explosive growth driven by Long Term Evolution (LTE) and mobile broadband in next generation telecom networks.-
Central Banks Worldwide Rely on Bank of Finland's MySQL Based Simulator The Bank of Finland acts as Finland's central bank, national monetary authority, and member of the European System of Central Banks and the Eurosystem.
The BoF developed a MySQL based versatile Payment and Settlement System Simulator for making payments and settlement system simulations. Running on Windows, the application has been widely adopted by Central Bank Economists Worldwide. 
Adresseavisen, Leading News Site in Norway, relies on MySQL Enterprise
Adresseavisen was founded in 1767 and is the oldest newspaper in Norway. Adressa.no was launched in 1998 and now has an average of 100,000 unique visitors per day, and growing.
Adresseavisen is the largest web property in Polaris Media ASA, a Norway based media group with publishing, newspapers and digital services providing news via several other channels including radio and local-television (TV) stations, web TV and mobile phones.
Telemaque Deploys MySQL Cluster to Power Converged Call Center Services
Telemaque deployed MySQL Cluster to handle the growing call volume and stringent SLA requirements for their hosted call center services. MySQL Cluster powers their SIP Servers (Kamailio, formerly OpenSER), Media Servers (FreeSWITCH) and proxy servers, handling call setup, routing tables, AAA and CDRs. MySQL Cluster sustains over 330,000 operations per second and has delivered continuous availability since initial deployment in 2008, handling both planned maintenance operations such as upgrades and systems failures.
MySQL Cluster Scores with Pyro and Cell C at the FIFA World CupThe Pyro Group has selected the MySQL Cluster database to power their InRoam SDP (Service Delivery Platform). InRoam enables Cell C and their network partners to provide low cost, border-less mobile communications services to hundreds of thousands of football fans from around the world as they descend on South Africa for the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament.
MySQL Enterprise powers 2 Million Referrals in Central Hospital RegistrySahlgrenska University Hospital (SU) is one of the major hospitals in Europe and was founded in 1997 when three hospitals in Sweden merged; Mölndal Hospital, Sahlgrenska Hospital and Östra Hospital. Sahlgrenska provides emergency and basic care within the city of Göteborg with 700,000 inhabitants, as well as highly specialized care for the Västra Götaland county with 1.7 million inhabitants.
Every year, Sahlgrenska University Hospital records two million referrals and comments through the Central Registry system which is powered by MySQL. All in all, the Central Registry manages about 100 gigabytes of data with up to 2,000 concurrent users on a yearly basis. Moreover, Sahlgrenska's various care units have different requirements regarding the set up of the patient's medical profile within the Central Registry, which calls for a flexible and adjustable database solution.
MySQL Cluster Powers Leading Document Management Web ServiceThe DocQ web service eliminates the limitations of sharing physical documents by offering a complete paperless business solution; providing a single place where customers can manage, archive, and send their important documents. DocQ supports secure business transactions and the services to store, edit, collaborate, and publish business documents.
- The database needed to deliver the high levels of write throughput, low latency responsiveness and continuous availability demanded by the service
- A sharded, multi-master MySQL solution with memcached was rejected due to the complexity of integration and management
- MySQL Cluster was selected as it met all of the requirements of the service with one, integrated solution out of the box
- MySQL Cluster is handling on average 1 million queries per day across both in-memory and disk-based tables, with the database growing at up to 2% daily
- MySQL Cluster handles document metadata and text, PHP session state, ACLs, job queues and tracking of document actions for billing
Cashpoint Saves Half a Million Euros per Year as it Bets on MySQL
Cashpoint is a betting and gaming enterprise founded in 1996 in Austria and is the market leader in several EU countries including Germany and Austria. Cashpoint has an extensive network of betting offices, more than 3,000 betting terminals, and an online betting platform.
The Sybase database that was originally deployed at Cashpoint no longer met their ever-increasing data management requirements. The stability, reliability, and performance did not allow Cashpoint to achieve the required level of service availability. Therefore Cashpoint searched for a stable and low administration database environment to optimize their performanc levels, maintenance times, and availability demands.
Promovacances.com boosts its performance with MySQL Enterprise & the Query AnalyzerLaunched in 1998, Promovacances is a brand of the Karavel group, the leading provider of vacation packages online in France. Promovacances.com gets about 40 million individual visitors per year and 250,000 per day during the high season.
The MySQL Enterprise Platinum subscription gives Karavel access to 24/7 technical support as well as to the MySQL Enterprise Monitor including the new MySQL Query Analyzer.
UCR Selects MySQL Enterprise to Power the Medical Registries of 1.5 Million Patients
Uppsala Clinical Research Center, UCR, is a national center of competence for healthcare quality registries in Sweden, and is an independent unit under Uppsala University Hospital and the Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Uppsala. UCR's overarching mission is to develop and improve healthcare by offering service in clinical research, clinical testing, quality registries, and quality development. UCR's National Quality Registries include treatment and outcome data based on all hospital patients in Sweden, and is used by thousands of doctors, nurses, medical secretaries and representatives within county councils. This range of comprehensive coverage makes the National Quality Registries one of its kind worldwide.
MySQL Enterprise powers SaaS ERP for Italian local and central authorities
PA Digitale helps the Italian government authorities achieve the objectives established by the Italian e-government plan for Public Digital Administration. A reliable and easy to use database is key to delivering on the vision of providing efficient e-government tools. Based on its ease of use and reliability, PA Digitale selected the MySQL database as the engine in the core of its technology infrastructure. By administering databases activities with the MySQL Enterprise Monitor and the Query Analyzer, PA Digitale can meet the database requirements with extremely intelligent and easy-to-use tools.
MySQL Enterprise Powers the Øresund Bridge – Processes Daily Traffic Data from 30,000 Vehicles
The Øresund sound is the strait that separates Denmark from Sweden. The total length of the bridge is 15.9 kilometers (52,493 feet), and about 30,000 vehicles cross the combined two-track rail and four-lane road bridge-tunnel on a daily basis. It is the longest combined road and rail bridge in Europe and connects the two metropolitan areas of the Øresund Region: the Danish capital of Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmö.
In order to support and monitor the daily traffic data and transactions from 30,000 vehicles, the Øresund Bridge purchased a MySQL EnterpriseTM Platinum subscription from Sun Microsystems.
Aito Technologies Selects MySQL to Manage Mobile Traffic Data and Customer Information
Aito Technologies has chosen to employ the MySQL Embedded Database Server in order to successfully analyze up to billions of daily phone calls, text messages and mobile data sessions.
With reference clients such as Nokia, TDC, Blyk, Elisa and Muxlim, Aito's daily traffic load entails several of terabytes of data. Consequently, the vendor’s application has strict requirements for high database performance and scalability on a multiprocessor architecture.
MySQL Cluster Powers Leading Mobile Media Publishing Platform
go2 Media (www.go2.com) publishes the largest entertainment guide on the mobile web, growing at 300% every 6 months. Updated daily, the guide covers everything from movies, concerts, sports events, and a restaurant guide combined with tools like directions, weather and contact details. Social networking features are also included, enabling users to share their plans with friends and colleagues via their preferred platform, i.e. Twitter, Facebook, SMS or Send to Friend.
Symantec Benefits from MySQL Embedded Server's Rock-Solid Quality and Low Administrative Costs For Over Six Years
Symantec is one of the largest software companies in the world and a global leader in providing security, storage, and systems management solutions that help organizations -- from the largest to the smallest -- secure and manage their information.
Symantec chose to use MySQL Embedded Server in its Brightmail product-line because, after looking at the leading commercial and open source databases, they found that MySQL Embedded Server provided both the best functionality and price point.
Telenor Powers its Next Generation Mobile Broadband Services with MySQL Cluster
Telenor is an international provider of high quality mobile communications services to customers in twelve markets across Asia and Europe. Telenor is also a leading provider of fixed-line and mobile services to the Scandinavian countries.
Solution Overview
- Telenor's Nexus platform provides IP management and authentication for user access
- MySQL Cluster is used to store all IP leases, subscriber service configurations, entitlements and provisioning
- MySQL Cluster's distributed architecture and ability to perform upgrades on-line enables Telenor to launch new services with no downtime
- Consolidated MySQL Cluster database supports Subscriber Data Management initiatives within Telenor
- MySQL Cluster selected due to 99.999% availability, real time performance and linear scalability on commodity hardware
be2 scales fast growing matchmaking web site with MySQL Enterprise
be2 started in 2004 with its German web site be2.de and is now one of the world's leading matchmaking services with more than 17 million members in 36 countries and 20,000 new members joining be2 every day.
Today be2 uses MySQL Enterprise Server to store data like user information, customer administration, behavioural information, website configuration and content, business management (pricing etc.), payment records as well as email campaign and tracking data. A MySQL based data warehouse is used for additional reporting and analytical data like business metrics and online performance. With the MySQL Enterprise Gold subscription be2 receives all the tools needed for effective query analysis and database monitoring. Even with a strong and experienced DBA team, be2 benefited considerably from MySQL consulting resulting in further improvements to database stability, scalability and redundancy saving cost.
IMS Adoption Fueled by the Open IMS Core Project and MySQL
IMS is the foundation of Next Generation Networks (NGNs), a key architectural transformation in telecommunications networks designed to deliver communications services, such as voice, data and multi-media, over converged, all-IP (Internet Protocol) networks. It is expected that IMS will become the prominent technology enabler for converging fixed, mobile and cable networks, providing seamless triple and quadruple play services.
Plusnet Achieves Continuous Availability of AAA Services with MySQL Cluster and FreeRADIUS
Plusnet upgraded their AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting) platform to the FreeRADIUS server and MySQL Cluster database in order to address increased demands resulting from:
- rapid service proliferation over fixed and wireless networks
- a quickly growing user base
- The need for continuous network access and accounting demanded by more stringent SLAs
Since deployment, the new MySQL Cluster and FreeRADIUS AAA platform has provided:
- Continuously available AAA services
- Accurate billing and revenue assurance by maintaining data integrity in real-time
- Accelerated time to market of new services with less cost and complexity due to built-in database redundancy and automated self-healing
- New levels of flexibility to scale RADIUS servers independently of their database
- Higher levels of infrastructure and management efficiency resulting from consolidation of multiple databases
MySQL Cluster Helps Mapion to Improve its User Experience
Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Mapion Co. Ltd delivers Japan’s leading online map search service, with over 700,000 page views per day, and over 200 enterprise customers. Mapion’s shareholders include Toppan, NTT East, Dentsu, Yahoo Japan, and Sharp.
Danfoss selects Sun's MySQL database to power its large-scale air conditioning system AKM
Danfoss is one of the largest industrial companies in Denmark. The global group is a leader within research, development and production, sales and service of mechanical and electronic components for several industries. Danfoss’ activities are divided into three main business areas: Refrigeration & Air Conditioning, Heating & Water and Motion Controls, each leading within its industry. Danfoss has a large ownership share in one of the world’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of mobile hydraulics, Sauer-Danfoss. Danfoss seeks to obtain its goals with a minimal consumption of raw materials and energy, the least possible impact on its surroundings and the most efficient use of resources. Danfoss has a long tradition for a social responsibility towards both employees and the surrounding environment.
MySQL Cluster Powers Rapidly Growing eCommerce Service
In 2006, Shopatron began investigating clustered database solutions that would provide the performance, scale and availability demanded by their growing eCommerce business. Having used the MySQL Server for several internal projects, they were aware of the performance and reliability offered by MySQL technologies. They were also aware that MySQL offered a real-time, high availability implementation of the database called MySQL Cluster, so Shopatron took the decision to download the product and begin evaluations.
School of Everything
The School of Everything is a website that helps people who want to learn meet up with people who want teach. Launched in September 2008 in London by a group of four friends who wanted to change education, School of Everything now has members throughout the world and has since gone on to win a New Statesman New Media Award and a UK Catalyst Award for contributions to Social Technology.
School of Everything chose to deploy MySQL and Drupal on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) services as this offered them the greatest flexibility.
Ticketmaster.com Migrated from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL and Improved Scalability by 400%.
Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. is the world leading event ticketing company, which provides ticket sales, ticket resale services, marketing and distribution through www.ticketmaster.com. Ticketmaster.com had been a Microsoft shop, using many of Microsoft’s products. In 2001, due to the growing popularity of online sales of show and sports tickets, the demand for Ticketmaster.com began to exceed its capacity and caused stability issues. To solve the problem, Ticketmaster.com evaluated many databases and decided to move the Event database from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL. In 2008, six years after the MySQL migration, Ticketmaster.com hosts ticket sales for 120,000 events and 24,000 venues, a 400% increase compared to pre-migration days in 2001. It is MySQL that enables Ticketmaster.com to achieve the 4x scalability, while consistently maintaining the average replication time of less than one second.
Caspur relies on MySQL Enterprise to support its scientific research
CASPUR is a non-profit inter-university consortium which was founded in 1992, based in Rome. It deals with scientific supercomputing applications and innovative technologies. CASPUR relies on MySQL because it is the de-facto standard database for the Bioinformatics industry. CASPUR employs a MySQL Enterprise subscription that allows them to monitor application reliability using MySQL Monitor, and improves query performance through the MySQL Query Analyzer.
TweetMeme Manages Explosive Growth with MySQL EnterpriseLike many social network products, TweetMeme was initially developed in PHP using the MySQL open source database. With Twitter users growing at a month-over-month rate of approximately 82% for the first half of 2009, TweetMeme needed to manage incredible scalability demands being placed upon its database infrastructure. The nature of real-time search also meant that to stay competitive, TweetMeme needed to be highly available, offer lightning fast service delivery capability, while ensuring that management and administration costs didn’t grow out of control.
MySQL Helps Simply Accounting by Sage Increase Revenue, Market Share, and Customer SatisfactionThe Sage Group plc, is one of the world-wide market leaders in accounting and business management software and services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), with over 5.8 million customers. In the Canadian market, Simply Accounting by Sage is the established market share leader in the small to mid-size business accounting software market with 54% of the Canadian retail market.
After an exhaustive, three-round process of elimination to find the database that could meet Simply Accounting's and other Sage products' needs, the technical evaluation team found that MySQL was "head and shoulders above the rest in meeting our requirements, especially with respect to performance." MySQL is the now the new Sage database standard for Sage's small-to-medium targeted products. At present this includes Simply Accounting by Sage in Canada, Sage 50 HR in the UK and Sage's GS product line in Germany.
Sweden’s largest student database, Ladok, to be powered by MySQL Enterprise
Ladok is the national system used for administration of higher education and documentation of academic information. The system is jointly owned by Swedish higher education institutions. Almost all institutions, 35 today, are part of the consortium together with the Swedish National Board of Student Aid. Ladok is also used for the institutions’ reporting to external recipients of information, among others the Swedish National Board of Student Aid, Statistics Sweden, the Ministry of Education and Research and the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education. The system is mainly used for matriculation and registration of students and their academic results and degrees.
The aim is to facilitate and abridge the daily work of departments and administration, for local and central planning as well as following up academic results, and to ensure the legal security and rights for the individual student.
SonicWALL Achieves 100% ROI in Under Nine Months Using MySQL Embedded Server
SonicWALL started using MySQL 5.0 in July 2008 and within just six months of using MySQL, SonicWALL was able to: Lower their cost of goods sold (COGS); Shorten new product time-to-market through the efficiencies they gained in Development, Quality Assurance, Training, and Documentation; and, Reduce the number of trouble tickets they received by over 20%, in addition to other gains.
thePlatform Migrates Media Publishing System to MySQL and Achieves 23x Performance Gain with the MySQL Query Analyzer
thePlatform is a leading, fast-growing video management and publishing company for broadband, mobile and TV. Established in 2000, thePlatform's Media Publishing System™(MPS) enables media companies like Time Warner Cable to manage, monetize and syndicate their billions of video views more effectively. Since its debut, thePlatform quickly grew revenue, as well as momentum, in the media sector, and has successfully gained well-known customers, including Comcast, NBC-Universal, Associated Press, BBC Global News, HIT Entertainment and CNBC. Comcast Interactive Media acquired thePlatform in 2006, which now operates as a stand-alone subsidiary.
MySQL Delivers 50% Lower Database Costs as NetHawk Develops Network Monitoring Solutions
With a mission to enhance the quality and user experience of converged communication networks, NetHawk provides state-of-the-art software-based network testing and monitoring tools and services for telecoms and VoIP equipment manufacturers and operators.
To diagnose network issues in real-time, NetHawk needed their database to deliver the highest levels of availability and throughput with the lowest response times, be massively scalable to handle ever increasing network traffic and subscriber volumes, and be flexible so that it could be partitioned to store and retrieve data over varying periods of time
NetHawk evaluated proprietary database products, but found MySQL delivered higher levels of performance at 50% lower cost, while meeting stringent availability requirements
Tema Networks Selects MySQL Embedded Server to Power its Real Time Mobile Billing Solution
Tema Networks develops billing and Value Added Services (VAS) solutions for mobile network operators around the world. Based in Finland, Tema Network's management team are seasoned professionals with a combined experience of over 40 years, holding senior level positions within leading suppliers to the Communications industry.
This experience provides them an in-depth insight into the most significant challenges faced by network operators as they attempt to integrate and deploy new communications services and Business Support Systems (BSS) into their infrastructure.
KURIER.at Powers its High-Traffic News Portal with MySQL Cluster
The Internet presence of Austria’s largest quality newspaper provides editorial news, comprehensive information and typical Internet services around-the-clock. As the Web supplement to the daily newspaper, Kurier.at provides additional 24-hour news updates and interactive online options.
Centralized Web services, such as session management, user data and the in-house Content Management System, are hosted on MySQL servers. The usage of MySQL Cluster for the central login and user data area of Kurier.at is superior to solutions of other providers in terms of maintenance safety, stability, scalability, and reliability.
MySQL Enterprise Brings High-Availability and Reliability to Advanced E-Learning System
With 31,000 students and 4,300 scientists and employees the University of Duisburg-Essen not only ranks among the ten largest universities in Germany, it is also one of the most important employers in the region.
Since 2007, the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Technische Universität Dortmund and Ruhr-Universität Bochum have cooperated at different levels within the scope of the University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr (UAMR). As part of this alliance, UDE's task was to develop a joint E-learning platform to track and manage the students' compulsory courses. All data required for hundreds of available online courses is managed in MySQL -- including student and teacher information, course descriptions, curriculum, user activity, and results attained.
SPEECH DESIGN Delivers Next Generation Call Completion Services with MySQL Cluster
SPEECH DESIGN is a leading European provider of messaging and mobility solutions for the corporate and carrier markets. More than 130,000 companies and millions of individual users benefit daily from SPEECH DESIGN's added-value communications solutions delivered by their partners. Following extensive evaluations of database solutions, SPEECH DESIGN selected MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition over existing proprietary databases to power their new call completion & next generation messaging services.
Aftonbladet, Sweden's largest news group, bets on MySQL
Aftonbladet was founded in 1830 and is the largest media group in Sweden. The Aftonbladet newspaper is the largest and most read newspaper in the Nordic region, with about 1,209,000 readers a day.
Polystar Monitors Telecom Networks Worldwide with Embedded MySQL
Polystar is a telecommunications supplier, providing service assurance and network performance monitoring solutions to the leading telecom manufacturers, operators and service providers worldwide. The global customer base includes T-Mobile, Telefonica, Telia and Telenor. Polystar's solutions provide real-time visibility into the reality of operators' network quality and their customers' experience. The products empower network owners of fixed or mobile networks, as well as for VoIP and NGN to make business-critical decisions with speed and accuracy. Polystar is the privately owned company that has been profitable every single year since it started in 1983.
Xceedium Relies on MySQL Embedded Server's Resilience and Performance for Its High-Risk User Security Appliance
Xceedium is the premier provider of entitlement management solutions that reduce the cost and complexity of controlling high-risk users. Xceedium relies on MySQL in its Xceedium Gatekeeper line of hardened appliances that automate compliance reporting, manage outsourcing risk, provide secure and efficient access to remote infrastructure and control vendor access.
Clickability Dramatically Improves Performance and Scalability with MySQL Query Analyzer
Clickability is the global leader in on demand Web Content Management, serving over 350 million page views per month for hundreds of customers. With the help of the MySQL Query Analyzer, Clickability investigated the cost of the most frequent queries and successfully identified a time-consuming one. By enhancing the application code, Clickability was able to reduce the database load and double the publishing application's performance. As a result, Clickability saves time and money in debugging, gets better utilization of their hardware, and scales with fewer resources by identifying the bottlenecks and removing them early in the development and deployment cycle.
Big Fish Games Triples Database Performance with MySQL Query Analyzer
Big Fish Games is a global leader in the online games industry, with over 25 million unique customer accounts and over 2.5 million visitors per month. MySQL allowed Big Fish Games to quickly grow their business with lower cost and hardware requirements, and has scaled with the company as it has grown into an industry leader. With the MySQL Query Analyzer, Big Fish Games was able to identify and analyze problematic SQL code, and tripled its database performance within three days, rather than weeks.- Shinsei Bank Relies on MySQL and SugarCRM to Radically Accelerate Enterprise Application Deployment
Shinsei is a leading financial institution in Japan. Shinsei has standardized on MySQL and SugarCRM for their customer relationship management (CRM) system and developed a unique "path-based" approach to developing and deploying applications which gives them the flexibility to modify their system as business requirements change. As a result, Shinsei successfully developed an entirely new enterprise system in one fourth the time and at a savings of 90% of the cost of using legacy mainframes and proprietary packaged software.
KACE Relies on MySQL to Deliver Mission-Critical Systems Management Solution
KACE is the leading systems management appliance company whose award-winning KBOX™ family of appliances provide PC and Server Lifecycle Management for mid-sized organizations. KACE uses MySQL in all of its appliances to provide the same ease-of-use, comprehensive capabilities, and low cost that its customers rely on their KBOX products to deliver. Said Dave Kloba, KACE's Vice President of Strategic Engineering Initiatives, "We don't have to worry about using MySQL, it's rock-solid. KACE customers want their KBOX products to just work and MySQL just works."
Italtel enables Networking Convergence using MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition
Italtel is an acknowledged leader in Next-Generation Network solutions. MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition combined the flexibility of a general purpose database with unprecedented reliability and scalability for Italtel's next generation products to satisfy the requirements to scale from a few thousand to millions of subscribers.
College of William & Mary Relies on MySQL to Deploy Network Admission Control Security System
To enforce the College's strict security policies, William & Mary developed a role-based Network Admission Control (NAC) system. MySQL enables the NAC system to authenticate users and enforce policies that control which network – Guest, Student or Faculty – users and devices can connect to and what information they have access to.
CONCEIVIUM Relies on MySQL to Perform Real-Time Analytics for BlackBerry Enterprise Server
CONCEIVIUM Business Solutions ensures that BlackBerry Enterprise Servers are up and performing optimally 24X7 for three of the world's top five banks, The Coca Cola Company, IBM Global Services and many other primarily Fortune 500 organizations. With MySQL Embedded Server, CONCEIVIUM's Mobile Monitor/Analyzer Agents have achieved a 70% performance gain and are now able to analyze over two gigabytes of data per day and perform thousands of transactions per second.
Gorilla Nation Relies on MySQL to Power its Advertising Network Business Intelligence Platform
Gorilla Nation is the world's largest online advertising sales representation company. To help their publishers and advertisers increase revenues, Gorilla Nation has built a business intelligence platform on MySQL that manages 1+ TB of data and provides vital real-time traffic and advertising campaign performance information.
MacPractice Relies on MySQL to Deploy Powerful Healthcare Practice Management and Clinical Solutions
MacPractice is the leading developer and supplier of practice management and clinical software, hardware and services on Apple Mac systems. In less than 4 years, MacPractice has deployed more than 2000 installations. MySQL is used to store all critical data including patient data, clinical information, prescription history, billing history and more.- Clickability Delivers Web Content Management SaaS Solution using MySQL
Clickability is the global leader in on demand Web Content Management, serving over 350 million page views per month for hundreds of customers, including Cisco, NetApp, Philly.com and CNN Interactive. faster. MySQL stores the core application data which is used across multiple applications that include serving 500+ million advertisements and distributing 10+ million emails every month.
Paggo Relies on MySQL Cluster and Java to Deliver Financial Transactions over Telecom Networks
Paggo has built an innovative payment solution making it easier for customers and merchants to buy and sell products and services using their mobile phones. MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition has enabled Paggo to quickly add 40,000 merchants and 1.2 million subscribers to its network and handle over 750,000 financial transactions per month.
FairWarning Relies on MySQL to Automate HIPAA Healthcare Security Compliance
FairWarning® is the world's leading supplier of healthcare privacy auditing solutions for Electronic Health Records (EHR). FairWarning's solutions are helping healthcare organizations across the United States like MemorialCare®, Saint Luke's Health System, and Columbus Regional Hospital not only pro-actively detect medical security violations but also save them millions of dollars by automating the manual processing of audit logs across a wide range of applications and systems.
M1 Deploys MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Solution from hSenid to Improve Telecom Subscriber Revenue
The mobile communications market in Singapore is highly competitive and is under continuous pricing pressure, which required M1 to find new ways to generate more revenue while controlling costs. Using MySQL Cluster, hSenid developed RewardsPlus, an application that enables M1 to quickly implement promotional campaigns and loyalty programs to reduce subscriber churn.
Zillow.com Deploys MySQL Cluster for High Growth with High Availability
As soon as Zillow launched, the real estate site immediately generated a massive amount of Web traffic. Zillow's founders knew from the company's inception that the site's ability to quickly process and manage massive amounts of data would be key to its success. The company identified a need for a low latency and reliable Web database that would enable them to continue to increase the capacity of their infrastructure indefinitely without sacrificing performance. Zillow uses MySQL Cluster - a special high availability version of MySQL - as the high transaction, low latency, Web-centric database to conduct critical data processing for Zillow.com, in real time.
Alcatel-Lucent Delivers Next Generation Converged Services with MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition
As telecom companies manage the convergence of traditional, mobile, wireless, voice and multimedia communications, a new generation of popular, sophisticated, high-growth applications have appeared, e.g. Voice over IP, Push to Talk, Content sharing, Video sharing, Messaging, and Presence management. At the heart of Alcatel-Lucent's converged IMS infrastructure is their new XDMS system, providing the contact and presence management configuration functionalities. The Alcatel-Lucent team evaluated several databases, but only MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition could offer the scalability and the high availability required for the system.- Alcatel-Lucent uses MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition to Handle over 60 million Subscribers
Until 2005, Alcatel's legacy HLR system had been based on proprietary database technology. However given the enormous growth in the number of subscribers it became apparent to Alcatel that they needed a new solution. After an extensive evaluation period and numerous performance benchmark tests, Alcatel selected MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition as their database of choice for their next generation HLR solution.
neckermann.de achieves cost-effective database scalability with MySQL
Cluster
neckermann.de GmbH is the 3rd largest mail order company in Germany. neckermann.de launched their e-commerce shopping site in 1995 and was one of the first companies in Germany selling products and services online.
neckermann.de originally deployed their web site on high cost symmetrical multi-processing (SMP) hardware and proprietary database software. However, as a result of the exponential growth in online shoppers, neckermann.de was running out of capacity using their existing solution. With the Christmas 2005 shopping season approaching, neckermann.de was forced to find a more cost-effective way to add performance, scalability and reliability to their site to accommodate their traffic growth.
Viasuisse Provides High Availability, Real-Time Traffic Information with MySQL Cluster
Viasuisse AG is the leading traffic information service provider in Switzerland and is focused on providing accurate and reliable traffic information to the general public. To ensure the traffic information is continuously available, Viasuisse selected MySQL Cluster, a high-performance, fault-tolerant open source database.
Bredbandsbolaget (B2) Makes the Connection with MySQL Cluster
Bredbandsbolaget (B2) is Sweden's largest broadband internet provider. The growing network today reaches 51 locations and currently serves 175,000 customers.
B2 developed a new application called Nexus to authenticate and grant customers access to B2 services including broadband internet access and VoIP. B2 uses MySQL Cluster to guarantee continuous broadband internet access and VoIP to their customers.
Register.it relies on MySQL to host mission critical Linux and Windows
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Register.it SpA, a subsidiary of DADA Group, is a leader in the domain and hosting market and has offices in Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, where it operates through Nominalia and Namesco. Register relies on MySQL because it has become the default database for shared and managed hosting environments, in addition to being the database of choice for developers and the open source community. By using MySQL Enterprise as platform for shared hosting, Register.it is able to improve reliability and provide a better service to all their customers.
Supply Dynamics Delivers Business-Critical SaaS Solution using MySQL
Part of the O'Neal High Performance Metals Group, Supply Dynamics is a leading supply chain solution provider that is focused on material consolidation solutions known as "Material Demand Aggregation." Their hosted multi-enterprise platform is helping Fortune 100 companies like General Electric, Honeywell and others to reduce raw material costs by as much as 15% and deliver products faster and at lower risk by linking their entire supply chain.
Alstom Selects MySQL as a Database Standard for Power Plant Monitoring
Alstom is a global leader in the world of power generation and rail infrastructure. As part of Alstom's power plant monitoring product (AMODIS®), a relational database that was low cost and robust was needed. MySQL was chosen as the relational database and is embedded in each AMODIS® system that is deployed in power plants worldwide.
Logicworks Delivers Managed Database Hosting Service with MySQL Enterprise
Logicworks provides the Managed MySQL Database Service with a 100% Service Level Agreement, so that no database transactions are lost, and revenue-generating online initiatives are not impacted by database performance or availability.
RightNow Delivers Software as a Service using MySQL
RightNow Technologies provides customer relationship management (CRM) software solutions for large global enterprises. The company has more than 1,800 customers worldwide - including large, well known companies such as Black & Decker, Electronic Arts, Nikon and British Airways. RightNow helps these organizations manage all of their customer interactions, enabling them to provide outstanding customer experiences while controlling costs. To ensure high levels of scalability, reliability, security and high-performance, RightNow chose to build its solution on high-quality, open source components including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Apache, the MySQL database and PHP.
Zimbra Deploys Millions of Email Accounts Using MySQL
Zimbra is the leader in open source, next-generation messaging and collaboration software, supporting over 8 million paid mailboxes across tens of thousands of organizations. Their customers include well-known service providers, Fortune 1000 enterprises and leading education institutions. To ensure high levels of scalability, reliability, security and high-performance, Zimbra chose to build their solution on top of proven, high-quality open source components including Linux, Apache, MySQL and Ajax. Furthermore, Zimbra employs a modular architecture that enables horizontal scale-out of the server and databases, which is crucial for high-growth enterprise-scale deployments. Zimbra chose MySQL in particular because of its robustness, efficiency, and ease to embed in their solution.
eSchool Solutions Embeds MySQL to Deliver Teacher Absence Management Solution
School districts need a more efficient way to fill teacher vacancies with substitute teachers. To solve this problem eSchool Solutions developed SmartFindExpressR which helps school districts fill absences more efficiently using the Internet and telephone with an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system.
Scholastic Relies on MySQL to Help Schools Raise Reading Achievement
The Scholastic Achievement Manager (SAM) is a powerful dashboard for managing reading achievement that uses MySQL. Built to scale across large districts, it powers Scholastic's student technology applications including READ 180, Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI), and ReadAbout.
Sagem Monetel Slashes Terminal Costs and Enhances Ease of Administration with MySQL
Sagem Monetel develops and markets electronic transaction terminals. By using MySQL, they have been able to reduce their database costs 20x.
S2 Develops Breakthrough Security Appliance
S2 Security Corporation has embedded MySQL in its S2 NetBox™. The S2 NetBox is a network appliance that is literally a "security management system in a box" allowing facilities of all sizes to manage their physical security needs from anywhere over IP networks using a simple browser.
According to John Moss, CEO of S2, "We had three primary considerations in selecting a database to embed in our system: cost, footprint, and functionality." MySQL was the only choice to meet all three criteria.
Sandstorm Secures Enterprise Networks Using Embedded MySQL
As network performance issues and security threats become more severe and harder to counter, enterprises need advanced tools to help detect network inefficiencies and uncover security breaches.
Sandstorm Enterprises developed NetIntercept, a network monitoring and auditing device that is delivered as a complete solution with software pre-installed. NetIntercept relies on MySQL to store and structure the searchable data to identify network and network security issues in the most demanding customer environments.
Plixer International Manages 20x More Data with Embedded MySQL
Plixer International is a Network Management company that provides products and services to some of the world\'s leading companies such as Disney Stores, Fannie Mae and AutoZone. To provide enterprise network managers with real-time decision making capabilities, Plixer captures 20x more data than existing network management products. Plixer relies on MySQL Embedded Server to manage these high-volumes of data.
NetQoS Delivers Distributed Network Management Solution with Embedded MySQL
NetQoS delivers products and services that enable some of the world's most demanding enterprises, including American Express, Boeing, and Chevron, to improve network performance. NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer relies on MySQL and tells IT organizations which applications and users are consuming bandwidth, and when, so they can optimize the wide area network and improve IT service delivery.
NetQoS found that MySQL provided the ideal combination of performance, reliability, and ease of administration for ReporterAnalyzer. In addition, MySQL's affordable licensing model enabled NetQoS to reduce its database costs by several thousand dollars per network appliance.
ScienceLogic Relies on MySQL to Deliver Integrated Network Management Appliance
To give the entire IT organization better visibility and control over the performance and availability of their networks, systems and applications, ScienceLogic relies on the performance and scalability of MySQL to process real-time information from thousands of networked devices.
Pricer Increases Retailer Efficiency with MySQL
cer, the world leading supplier of Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) systems that communicate price and product information to customers at the shelf edge have built their system om MySQL in order to enhance Retailer efficiency.
Gumtree Relies on MySQL Enterprise to Help Tame Explosive Growth
Gumtree.com was started in March 2000 as a local online community notice board. The company has grown to cover over 70 cities across 8 countries, and is now the UK's biggest website for local community classifieds, including flat share, flat rentals and jobs - with more than 1 million live ads at any one time, and over 5.5 million visitors per month. >From the beginning, Gumtree needed a database to power its operations that would be reliable, robust and affordable - but most of all: scalable. The company chose MySQL, and has never looked back.
Zappos Uses MySQL to Power its Growth & Exceptional Customer Service
Zappos prefers to think of itself as a customer-service company that happens to sell shoes and handbags online. LOTS of shoes and handbags. Since its founding in 1999, Zappos has grown to 1,000 employees - and its website now carries over 1,000 name brands, over 150,000 styles, and nearly 3 million products in stock and ready for immediate shipment. In its earliest start-up days, the company needed to properly balance their enterprise database requirements with the realities of a not-so-limitless IT budget. After evaluating several open source alternatives, they selected MySQL because it was the most robust, affordable database software available at the time.
The Phone House Consolidates its eCommerce Systems on MySQL Enterprise
The Phone House Telecom, headquartered in Muenster, Germany, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of UK-based The Carphone Warehouse plc - the world's largest independent mobile telephone retailer. The company has more than 850 employees, and more than 1.5 million customers. The Phone House's online shop, content management and online billing systems were distributed on different systems running Informix and Oracle databases. This legacy environment was difficult to maintain - especially when facing significant growth in the number of visitors to its online shop. The company decided to consolidate all these systems on one database platform, one that was easily scalable and less costly to administer.
iStockphoto Grows to a Top-100 U.S. Website with MySQL Enterprise Unlimited
iStockphoto is the world's busiest image market, with an image downloaded every 2.5 seconds. For their Web site, scalability has become mission-critical. Being able to manage increasing volumes of data and transactions has to be carefully balanced with IT budgets and resource expenditures. At first, their decision to go with the MySQL database was primarily for its dramatic cost-savings, but as the traffic to iStockphoto.com has grown, scaling out with MySQL on commodity hardware has been a key enabler to handling this rapid growth while maintaining high performance.
Adobe Relies on MySQL to Make Creative Professionals More Productive
Adobe Systems is one of the largest software companies and is the leading provider of creative tools for print, web, interactive, mobile, video, and film. Adobe embeds MySQL into several Adobe Creative Suite 3 components including Adobe Acrobat CS3, Adobe® Bridge CS3, and Adobe® Version CueR CS3 so that workgroups can work more efficiently on complex projects.- Quantel Innovates with MySQL to Reduce Time-to-Air for Broadcasters
Quantel, a UK-based media company with a worldwide market, helps news and sports broadcasters get quality content to air as soon as possible. The scalability, low complexity and high performance of MySQL, helps Quantel provide its customers with heavy duty systems, capable of handling the heavy loads of news bulletin peak hours.
CyberTech Selects MySQL for its Voice Recording System
CyberTech's MynaVoice voice recording software has over 100,000 users worldwide -- several leading telecom brands and recorder manufacturers use the company's technology in their products. The company needed a powerful database that they could embed into their solution that could quickly store and recall large amounts of multimedia data. They also sought a database that was easy to use, affordable and highly extensible.- Deal Group Media scales out online advertising with MySQL
As broadband penetration and consumer online spending continue to rise rapidly, so does affiliate marketing as an essential channel for driving customer acquisition. In an affiliate marketing scenario, advertisers seek affiliates among the most trafficked websites, place banner advertisements and pay for click-throughs or closed sales arriving from this channel. Major advertisers have come to see affiliates as an extension of their own sales force, referring potential customers to their sites and building revenue from increased sales. In the United Kingdom, sales from affiliate network channels rose 100% between 2004 and 2005, a trend that continued during 2006.
Aastra Telecom Schweiz Delivers Highly Reliable Telecom Equipment using MySQL
Aastra Telecom Schweiz AG, located in Solothurn, Switzerland is a leadingprovider of modern IP communications solutions across Europe. MySQL delivers the stability, reliability, and performance that Aastra demands to pro-vide enterprise communications solutions. Aastra Telecom Schweiz has been embedding MySQL in their Open Interfaces Platform (OIP) since 2003and it is deployed in over 5000 installations across Europe.- BBC News Website uses MySQL to Monitor Reader Interest
Millions of people every day visit the BBC News website for their daily fix of world news and analysis. Stories from hundreds of dedicated journalists in all time zones are constantly being fed to the site, which currently attracts 35 million unique users and receives over 800 million page impressions each month.
- Utel handles 10,000 Requests per Second Using a Scale out Deployment of MySQL Network
Utel's bet: to develop France's biggest mobile phone-based chat community! In March 2003, the company launched "Fotochat", the first service to leverage the photo sharing capabilities of the new generation of handsets. This enabled users to get their pictures online in a matter of seconds via a simple e-mail or MMS. The system is based entirely on MySQL and processes an average of 3,000 queries per second and handles 10,000 queries per second at peak times!
- PokerRoom.com Powers High Transaction Online Poker System with MySQL and HP
Ongame's PokerRoom.com is one of the largest poker sites online. Ongame has developed a platform offering other gaming portals customers a place at PokerRoom.com tables. This reflects a trend within the online gaming industry where different gaming services are being aggregated into one virtual location. During peak hours, 12,000 players occupy the poker tables. Since each bet, each played hand and other data are recorded, the database often handles 2,000 transactions per second.
- Intel MySQL Case Study - S2: High Power on a Small Footprint
In the course of developing its innovative self-contained security solution, S2 Security Corporation ported the Embedded MySQL DBMS to the Intel IXP425 Network Processor, running under a real-time Linux derivative. In this case study, Intel shows how porting MySQL has allowed S2 to facilitate a breakthrough in cost-effective security management and enables the development of many other highly attractive network-based applications.
- Jajja Communications Optimizes Search Engine Traffic with MySQL Network
Jajja Communications is one of Europe's leading Search Engine Optimization (SEO) companies. It has clients in 23 countries including Procter & Gamble, H&M, eBay, Dell and IKEA.
According to Daniel Ek, CTO of Jajja Communications, "Because of our high availability commitments and ambitious projected scaling, MySQL Network was really what we needed. We can now keep a high level of 24/7 support for all our servers while being guaranteed optimized and stable versions of MySQL backed by customized technical alerts. 
Local County Government Turns to MySQL to Help Support its Citizens
The Information Technologies department of Pottawattamie County, Iowa is employing the open source LAMP software stack -- Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP -- to improve the reliability and functionality of their local government applications. They have standardized on MySQL for all their new database systems development, replacing legacy Informix and Microsoft SQL Server applications.
Craigslist Relies on MySQL to Serve Millions of Classified Ads
craigslist revolutionized the ease and speed with which people could create an online community that would facilitate the exchange of ideas, goods and services. According to Alexa Traffic Rankings, craigslist is one of the Top 100 most trafficked web sites in the world. Every month, craigslist receives 5 million unique visitors, and serves about 1 billion page views.
In less than 4 years, MySQL has enabled craigslist to grow from 250,000 page views to over 27 million page views daily - virtually all of which are generated out of MySQL!
