But it [MySQL] has its problems, among them scalability and performance under the pressure of high transaction rates.

Like Twitter, our customer AppDynamics, is working to better manage data at high availability rates, but they’re taking a slightly different tact. In a recent post on the AppSignal blog, Boris Livshutz, introduces what he calls a ‘Data Cloud’ and looks for common ground between SQL and NoSQL rather than calling out the differences. You can check out the full post here. And we’ll keep you up to date as the story develops.

Webyog and Percona are giving away free tickets to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, and you can win them! We’re also giving away copies of High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition!

This year’s event is the best ever, with a better lineup of talks and speakers than ever before.  It’s the one event you should not miss if you’re at all interested in MySQL.  We really want you to be there — and that’s why we’re joining with Percona to give away free tickets! It’s easy to enter:

To Tweet, “like,” or +1 a session, just browse to the session and use the social sharing buttons on it.

It is OK to enter multiple times — each time you enter increases your chances of winning. The contest runs for a week, so you can enter on multiple days and increase your odds further.

The official contest rules, including more ways to enter the contest, are on Percona’s blog post. Good luck!

Cheers,
Chirag
Team Webyog

NEWTON, MA – March 5, 2012 – ScaleBase, the database infrastructure company, announced today that Paul Campaniello has joined the company as Vice President of Global Marketing. ScaleBase enables organizations to instantly respond and adapt to dynamic business requirements.

The ScaleBase Data Traffic Manager is a simple solution that dynamically manages and scales your MySQL database to meet the demands of your business. ScaleBase delivers real time elasticity, increases availability and improves capacity planning – all without requiring any changes to your existing infrastructure.

Campaniello brings 25 years of experience working with rapidly-growing software companies, including Mendix, Lumigent Technologies, Precise Software and Savantis Systems. Campaniello’s responsibilities include developing ScaleBase’s worldwide marketing strategy, execution and sales support.
“More and more businesses are struggling with the ability to cost-efficiently scale their MySQL databases,” said Campaniello. “ScaleBase has an exceptional product that specifically addresses this need and they have seen great results with its initial customers. That speaks volumes to the value it delivers. I am excited to join a team with such a strong product-market fit.”
After its initial product launch, ScaleBase is poised to expand rapidly. Campaniello’s experience with scaling companies, combined with his proficiency in creating visibility in emerging markets will help drive the company through its next phase of expansion.
“We initially focused our resources on developing an incredible product – one that answered a very real market need,” said ScaleBase CEO, Doron Levari. “Now that the product is achieving greater market penetration and customer adoption, it made sense to expand our marketing initiatives. I look forward to continuing our growth with Paul.”

Overall, the big news is that our companies will now jointly offer Tungsten Enterprise and Tungsten Replicator-based solutions to help MySQL users in accelerating the deployment and management of clustered MySQL databases, as well as the deployment of complex data replication solutions. We will also together offer MySQL users the SkySQL Enterprise subscription, a comprehensive offering of server software, production support and monitoring tools for any version of the MySQL database.

SkySQL continues to be focused on bringing the MySQL database into the future while providing expert support and services to those using the database today, and this is another strong step in that direction.

For more information on our combined solution, visit our site or Continuent's .

SAN JOSE, Calif., February, 15, 2012 – Monitis, the leading cloud and web application monitoring software provider, today announces that it has added comprehensive MySQL database monitoring to its award-winning Application Performance Management & Monitoring platform. The robust Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tool enables users to gain significantly faster insight when conducting root cause analysis.

The MySQL monitoring feature includes 246 monitoring variables and more than 21 different metrics to provide one of the easiest to use, yet comprehensive database monitoring tools available. It was first introduced into the free Monitor.Us platform back in June last year and has seen the code battle hardened by many hundred free users over the last 8 months.

Hovhannes Avoyan, founder and General Manager at Monitis commented “This feature makes it easy for systems administrators and web developers to measure and monitor the performance of their php environments such as Joomla and WordPress, from multiple locations around the world. It gives them a true picture of application performance from where ever in the world the user is. Because the Monitis MySQL monitor is part of the Monitis platform it provides an unprecedented holistic view of software, database and underlying hardware, giving pressured techs the ability to quickly and easily diagnose the root cause of slow application performance.”

The service uses a small Linux agent that can monitor inside an organization’s firewall and distributed systems. The Monitis agent connects to a local or remote database and collects a variety of health and performance metrics that are graphically displayed in real-time on a web-based dashboard. Users can also set up notifications (should their database go down or pass a certain level of access volume) based on client-defined thresholds and rules.

Some metrics tracked and reported on by Monitis — which can be set up in minutes — include:

• Database size
• Resource utilization
• Analysis of responsiveness/latency
• Analysis of throughput
• Database usage
• Scalability

“Monitis’ SaaS delivery and pay as you go pricing mean it’s easy to get going and has low set up and running costs. It puts the power of MySQL monitoring in the reach of techs who otherwise wouldn’t have had the time to set up or budget to afford such a comprehensive solution.” adds Avoyan

Monitis MySQL Monitoring provides much greater check-in frequency, as low as every 5 minutes, and the ability to check the performance of the database from multiple locations around the world.

About Monitis

Monitis is the leading provider of Cloud-based Application Performance Management & Monitoring solutions for System Admins and Web Developers. Over 80,000 users worldwide have chosen Monitis to increase uptime and user experience of their services and products.

Monitis’ core product offerings include website monitoring, website full page load testing, transaction monitoring, application and database monitoring, cloud resource monitoring, and server and internal network monitoring. What makes Monitis’ software different is how fast it is to deploy, its flexible pricing and feature-rich technology that provides a comprehensive single-pane view of on-premise and off-premise infrastructure and applications.

More information on Monitis MySQL Monitoring is available on our website.

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To ensure that Scalebase is not a single point of failure, several ScaleBase instances can be used – so if one crashes, other instances can handle its connections.

This is quite simple to do:

1. Start the EC2 instance to be used for the ScaleBase configuration
   1. Install MySQL on the machine and follow the database preparation instructions defined in the ScaleBase installation guide.
   2. Install ScaleBase with the –mode=ALL parameter.
   3. Create an EC2 instance that will be used as an AMI for all ScaleBase installations.
      1. Download and install ScaleBase on the machine using the InstallMachine script. Make sure you use the –mode=LB parameter, to connect to an existing configuration.
      2. Create an AMI out of the instance (in the EC2 management console, right click on the instance and select the “Create Image” option).
      3. Start instances based on the created AMI.
      4. Create an EC2 Load Balancer (see EC2 documentationfor more information).
         1. Make sure all the instances you created are mapped to the Load Balancer.
         2. Make sure the Load Balancer is connected to TCP port 9000, and is using this port for Health Check.
         3. Direct all communication to the Load Balancer DNS.

That’s it. Easy – and works like a charm.