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MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database, and the #1 DB for web-based apps. MySQL powers the vast majority of top web sites WW including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. MySQL is also very much used by enterprise and governmental organizations for web apps as well as custom and departmental enterprise applications, for example data marts. Those are very complementary use cases to the Oracle database that we’ll typically find more in ERPs and other such high end enterprise applications.
Additionally, MySQL is an extremely popular choice as embedded database, distributed by over 3.000 ISVs and OEMs. They include software vendors such as Sage embedding MySQL in accounting applications or eClinicalWorks shipping MySQL within medical practice management software. MySQL is also integrated in security solutions delivered by Cisco or Checkpoint for example and in numerous telecom offerings from Alcatel Lucent, Avaya and many others.
Finally, MySQL has become the leading DB in the cloud, offered by the vast majority of cloud services providers, and powering countless SaaS applications.
Those are the target markets for MySQL, where the database naturally excels, and for which Oracle is making it better.
Since Oracle acquired Sun we have delivered A TON of MySQL Innovation
MySQL 5.5, MySQL 5.6, several releases of MySQL Cluster, several releases of MySQL Workbench, additional value in MEE...and more
We’ve improved the MySQL experience for users, customers, for folks using MySQL on Windows with news tools and massive perf improvements, and for Oracle customers using MySQL integrating MySQL with relevant Oracle products.
In case anyone still has any doubt about Oracle’s commitment to MySQL, those doubts clearly can be put to rest. We’re delivering more than ever before in MySQL’s history, and will continue to do so.
Buongiorno Relies on MySQL Enterprise Edition to Power its Mobile Services
Buongiorno is known in the worldwide mobile ecosystem for developing and managing paid applications and content that help consumers get greater enjoyment from their mobile devices.
Buongiorno’s strategic goal is to deliver directly to consumers around the world a broad portfolio of content & services on all their personal devices, exploiting social and location based propositions, and letting telecom operators be in control of the billing. With direct connections to more than 130 telecom operators in 25 countries, over 10 years’ experience and a team of 600 professionals, Buongiorno makes the mobile internet experience happen for consumers globally. Buongiorno’s web apps brands include Gamifive, MuchGossip, Fingerbooks, Appsfuel HTML5 Marketplace, Winga, Play.me and the mobile payments solution Cashlog.
Challenges
Rely on a database delivering high performance and scalability to power Buongiorno’s mobile services. The database additionally needed to be very easy to use in order to rapidly launch and easily manage new fast growing applications.
Implement an effective monitoring solution in order to increase Dev-Ops productivity and focus resources on strategic operations.
Maintain a low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for its infrastructure, both initially and over time.
Solution
Selected MySQL to power Buongiorno’s platform. The team especially valued its performance and scalability for mobile applications, including the ability to very quickly open and close connections to the database. MySQL was moreover extremely easy to use, and would allow the company to cost-effectively scale-out, adding more database servers at low cost to fuel its growing business.
MySQL instances are hosted on virtualized servers. The architecture currently consists of over 50 MySQL database instances including:
Over 40 “MySQL chains” as illustrated in the below diagram with circular replication between master and slave servers (or "Master Backup") to ensure High Availability, and replication to a second slave server for reporting purposes.
Over 10 additional similar MySQL chains without replication to another slave server for reporting needs.
More than 8 TB of data are stored in the MySQL master servers (excluding the replicas). The application handles:
Over 50,000 queries/second
Over 15,000 transactions/second
While several MySQL versions are still in use in the platform, all servers are being migrated to MySQL 5.6 in order to take advantage of the latest features.
Standardized on MySQL Enterprise Edition. Relying on the MySQL Enterprise Monitor Visual dashboard to monitor all MySQL databases at a glance. Automated alerts enable the Buongiorno DBAs to immediately focus on potential problems and fix them before they impact the system.
Leveraging Oracle’s MySQL Technical support to assist their team. "We turn to the support team whenever we don’t know the answer, they are extremely good and really responsive" said Carmine Giordano, DBA Manager.
Planning to use MySQL Enterprise Backup, that now integrates with their central company backup solution.
"MySQL is an excellent database to deliver mobile applications; it’s really fast, reliable and easy to use. I highly recommend MySQL Enterprise Edition; the latest version of the MySQL Enterprise Monitor is extremely useful and saves us a lot of time and efforts." Carmine Giordano, DBA Manager, Buongiorno
Atos Manages Transaction Clearing for the Euronext Markets in Continental Europe with MySQL Enterprise Edition
Atos is an international information technology services company with annual revenue of EUR 8.8 billion and 77,100 employees in 52 countries. Serving a global client base, it delivers IT services in 3 domains, Consulting & Technology Services, Systems Integration and Managed Services & BPO and transactional services through Worldline.
In 2009 Atos was asked to drastically reduce the costs of the UCS application (Universal Clearing System): the compensation engine for the Euronext Cash (stocks and bonds) and derivatives markets in the Euro zone. In the financial sector, clearing is exercised by aggregating all purchases and sales by the type of product/assets held by each account holder, resulting in a balance of net payables or receivables as well as the net flows of securities delivered or received.
Challenges
Migrate from a proprietary HP NonStop-SQL/MP environment towards an open source infrastructure enabling both a drastic reduction in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) as well as technology independence.
Guarantee the robustness and the high availability of this highly mission critical financial application.
Increase the performance and the scalability of UCS to address constantly growing transactions volumes.
Solution
Adoption of an Open Source strategy and complete re-engineering of the application relying on a software stack including Linux, MySQL Enterprise Edition, Apache/Tomcat, and the C and Java languages. The new system is architected around several servers or clusters of blade servers running Linux, some of them virtualized, and a SAN. The application primarily relies on the InnoDB storage engine, using the Memory storage engine to a lesser extent.
Implementation of an architecture built around business processes acting as sub-components multi-instantiated to allow for better scalability. The previous architecture allowed siloed processes to become bottlenecks.
Geographical redundancy achieved using synchronous replication between two data centers, separated by 40 kilometers.
The UCS application handles :
In excess of 1 million transactions per day, peaking at 2 million per day during the summer of 2011
8000 files sent to customers daily
700 batch processes each night
Several benchmarks were run to ensure that the application could scale to handle more than 6 million daily transactions. Vincent Cornet, DBA Support Manager at Atos, recalls "During one of our benchmarks we faced a crash. We turned to Oracle’s MySQL support team and obtained a fix within 48 hours, which was subsequently integrated within the official MySQL version. We were extremely pleased with such responsiveness." The reengineering of the application handling the clearing for the Cash markets was a project that lasted for 15 months, involved 12,000 man-days of effort and resulted in:
An entirely reworked platform and software architecture
New data centers
New SAN and commodity blade servers
New administration and monitoring tools, including MySQL Enterprise Monitor and MySQL Workbench
Successful delivery, and an extremely pleased customer
Following that achievement, similar re-architecting of the clearing system for derivative products. Requiring teamwork between more than 40 people from different departments and a 24/7 task force for 6 months.
The objective of drastically reducing TCO was realized while at the same time the maintenance of the system was simplified and its performance increased. The new UCS application has been a success and has been praised by all parties involved. In addition to being one of the best transactional solutions on the market, it also represents a great technological and human achievement thanks to the very strong cooperation between all of the teams to drive change using new technologies. Atos has moreover acquired an expertise valuable to other customers across multiple industries.
Beyond an upgrade to MySQL 5.6, Atos is now also considering using MySQL Cluster within the UCS architecture or other similar applications in the future.
"MySQL allows us to sleep soundly at night, which was far from being the case with the old system. We deliver better results at a lower cost, and the quality of Oracle’s MySQL support is exemplary." Vincent Cornet, DBA Support Manager, Atos
Gina Tricot is a family-owned, Swedish fashion chain that consists of over 180 stores across the following five markets: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Germany. Combined with growing online sales, the company reaches fashion-conscious women in 28 countries across Europe. In 2012, Gina Tricot reported sales of SEK 2.3 billion.
Challenges
Implement a reliable and scalable infrastructure to drive online sales both in countries with a physical presence via stores and in countries where the company sells exclusively online.
Outsource the day-to-day administration of the e-commerce system, including the databases, to a local partner while maintaining overall overview and control of the system.
Solution
Selected MySQL to power Gina Tricot’s e-commerce application based on its reputation as default database for web-based transactional applications, its low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and the recommendation of the local partner in charge of the implementation.
Decided to outsource both the physical infrastructure to a public cloud services provider and the day-to-day database administration to Oracle partner Emineo in Sweden.
Implemented MySQL replication to improve performance and scalability. While the system was initially built using MySQL Community Edition, upgraded to MySQL Enterprise Edition in order to ensure better performance, reliability and security. The MySQL Enterprise Monitor visual dashboard furthermore provides the Gina Tricot IT managers with an overview of the health of the databases at any point in time.
Using the MySQL Enterprise Monitor and MySQL Query Analyzer to detect poorly performing queries and to fix both existing and potential issues before they impact the application.
Achieved objective of maintaining visibility on all key database performance indicators and control over the application while delegating the execution of the database administration tasks to a partner.
"MySQL Enterprise Edition enables us to expand and grow online sales in both existing and new countries while maintaining a low TCO. It is a high performance, scalable and easy to monitor database; we’re extremely pleased with it." Nicklas Griphem, Manager Server & Infrastructure, Gina Tricot