Case Studies

MySQL Enterprise

• Zappos Uses MySQL to Power its Growth & Exceptional Customer Service
• Booking.com Serves One Million Visitors per Day with MySQL Enterprise Unlimited
• Clickability Dramatically Improves Performance and Scalability with MySQL Query Analyzer

MySQL Embedded Server

• Conceivium Relies on MySQL to Perform Real-Time Analytics for BlackBerry Enterprise Server
• Adobe Relies on MySQL to Make Creative Professionals More Productive
• FairWarning Relies on MySQL to Automate HIPAA Healthcare Security Compliance

MySQL Cluster

• Alcatel-Lucent uses MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition to Handle over 60 million Subscribers
• Paggo Relies on MySQL Cluster and Java to Deliver Financial Transactions over Telecom Networks
• Zillow.com Deploys MySQL Cluster for High Growth with High Availability

Other Case Studies

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Register.it relies on MySQL to host mission critical Linux and Windows plattforms

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.
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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.
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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.
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Anoto Provides Easy Data Capture in the Field with MySQL

The Anoto Group is the pioneering world leader of digital pen & paper technology, built on patented technology developed in the company. The Anoto system optimizes paper-based processes by rapidly and reliably converting handwritten information from business forms into digital documents. A bundled database for storing, analyzing and creating statistics from data was crucial and Anoto decided to rely on MySQL.
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Group Logic's MassTransit Relies on MySQL to Manage Mission Critical Data and Information Workflow

Group Logic built MassTransit, a high-performance digital file transfer and workflow solution using the MySQL Server. By managing low volume embedded client database requirements to high volume server to server requirements, MySQL enables Group Logic's customers to grow and scale their business using a single database solution.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LeapFrog's Award-winning Educational Solution is Powered by MySQL

LeapFrog SchoolHouse is a leader in the education technology market. They considered building their own cross-platform, proprietary database in-house for their award-winning LeapTrack product family. However, they quickly realized that they were better off embedding the MySQL database instead -- allowing them to focus their efforts on solving their customers' unique challenges, not the underlying infrastructure. MySQL has been the ideal solution for them.
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Suzuki Drives Sales and Profitability with MySQL

The Suzuki Sales P.R.O. (Professional Retail Outlet) is an electronic kiosk used at over 600 Suzuki dealerships across the United States. For the first time, prospective customers can build their custom motorcycle in real-time in the dealership. The Suzuki Sales P.R.O. Kiosk relies on MySQL to store all product configurations and pricing details, automatically update dealership product catalogs, enable sales managers to track the performance of their sales staff, and more.

As a result, individual dealership sales have increased up to 35%.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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NetQoS Delivers Distributed Network Management Solution with Embedded MySQL

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.
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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.
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Anam Increases Telecom Operators Revenues with Embedded MySQL Database

In the highly competitive Telecoms market, mobile operators are turning to Anam's Smart Services as a way to rapidly launch new value-added messaging services. MySQL delivers the sophisticated database functionality Anam requires for their Smart Services products, without impacting system latency.
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MySQL helps to give Gordanos Messaging Suite the Competitive Edge

With MySQL at the heart of their Messaging Suite, Gordano continues to release high quality new products in aggressive timescales, keeping them one step ahead of their competition.
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Pricer Increases Retailer Efficiency with MySQL

Pricer, 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.
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Booking.com Serves One Million Visitors per Day with MySQL Enterprise Unlimited

As one of the Web's most successful online travel sites, Booking.com has experienced explosive growth. Last year, the company's development team decided they needed to re-architect their old MySQL-based system to improve their site's performance, uptime, scalability and business reporting capabilities. They employed MySQL AB's professional services group to consult on implementing a new, modern Scale-out architecture.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Skyblog Relies on MySQL to Power its Amazing Growth

Launched in 2002, Skyblog has become the second most-visited site in France, behind only Google.fr, according to Alexa. More than 10 million blogs have already been created on Skyblog. The company needed a highly-scalable and highly-available infrastructure to keep pace with the rapidly increasing number of blogs, the addition of new web services, and the overall growing volume of data. Working closely with the expert consultants of MySQL France, Skyrock chose to implement a modern 'Scale-Out' architecture for their systems infrastructure on cost-effective commodity hardware.
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Adobe Systems

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.
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Quantel

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.
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Venarc Relies on MySQL and DRBD for High Availability eCommerce

Venarc is a leading System Integrator that helps organizations such as GotPrint.com architect, build and maintain enterprise application solutions. Venarc built a cost-effective High Availability eCommerce site for GotPrint using MySQL Enterprise Server and DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device). DRDB automatically handles many high availability infrastructure requirements such as fail-over, node recovery, and data synchronization.
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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
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Tellme Employs MySQL to Power Mission-Critical Telco Applications

Every month, Tellme powers voice-based phone searches used by more than 35 million consumers, making it the most popular mobile search service today. Like many fast-growing "Web 2.0" Internet businesses, Tellme needed a database that could scale with its dramatic traffic growth - from 500 million calls in 2004, to nearly two billion calls in 2006.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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mixi Delivers Massive Scale-out with MySQL

mixi is the largest Social Networking Site (SNS) in Japan and is ranked in the Top 30 most trafficked Web sites in the world. mixi deploys over 100 MySQL Servers to manage over 3 million users who are creating diaries, posting messages, paying for premium services, and more. mixi is adding 15,000 new members every day and generates over 150 million page views/day using MySQL!
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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.
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Greyhound-Data Dog Racing Site
Relies on MySQL's Speed

Greyhound-Data is the world's most popular greyhound racing web site. It is the de facto web site for greyhound fans in worldwide who follow the results of the 'big tracks' in the United States, Ireland, United Kingdom, and Australia.

Founded in 1999, Greyhound-Data is a non profit organization with the goal of providing freely accessible information about greyhounds. The highlight of the site is that even very complicated race statistics across millions of records are calculated in fractions of a second due to the optimized MySQL backend.
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LeapFrog's Award-winning Educational Solution is Powered by MySQL

LeapFrog SchoolHouse is a leader in the education technology market. They considered building their own cross-platform, proprietary database in-house for their award-winning LeapTrack product family. However, they quickly realized that they were better off embedding the MySQL database instead -- allowing them to focus their efforts on solving their customers' unique challenges, not the underlying infrastructure. MySQL has been the ideal solution for them.
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U.S. Census Bureau Counts on MySQL

The Census Bureau's web development team has relied on an open source LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl) to develop several highly-acclaimed and very successful web sites. In fact, one of the MySQL-run sites won the prestigious Census Bureau's Director's Award for Innovation. The Census Bureau's web development team, led by Rachael LaPorte Taylor, senior technology architect for FedStats.gov at the Census Bureau, and Lisa Nyman, senior Internet technology architect, has begun serving as informal open-source consultants to the entire organization of over 5,000 employees.
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Dell MySQL Case Study: Nine Systems

This company's popular audio- and video- content delivery system needed a more flexible infrastructure that could handle huge spikes in Web traffic. They replaced their existing, end-of-life servers with more a robust scaled-out solution based on more than 100 Dell PowerEdge servers running Microsoft Windows Server software and Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl (LAMP) in highly-optimized configurations.
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PortaOne Delivers VoIP Billing with MySQL

PortaOne is a leading solution provider for VoIP infrastructure: billing, management and customer care solutions. By providing an easy to use, turn-key solution, PortaOne allows small and medium sized Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs) to deliver global carrier-grade services in a matter of days.

With their sights set on small to medium sized ITSPs, PortaOne had to deliver a product that was not only affordable, easy to use, and easy to administer, but would also scale. The MySQL database's reliability, performance and affordable licensing model proved to be a perfect fit. Download the PDF »

Friendster Scales-Out with MySQL Network

As the largest social networking site on the Web — with over 60 million page-views each day, Friendster selected MySQL Network to provide the right combination of affordable database reliability and scalability. Their Scaled-Out LAMP system handles over one billion database queries a day, and has saved their IT staff several millions of dollars in hardware and software costs.
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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.
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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.
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Citysearch Saves Over $1 Million Using MySQL

Citysearch is a leading online local search service, providing the most up-to-date information on businesses, from restaurants and retail, to travel and professional services. The Citysearch web site receives over 10 million unique visitors each month. As a result of an exponentially growing user base, the front end Oracle system could no longer keep up with the traffic coming from the Web site. By implementing replicated MySQL servers to handle the Web traffic and a terabyte of data, Citysearch was able to deliver an extremely high performance solution and save more than $1 million in database licenses and hardware costs.
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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.
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Major Range Control Center Relies on Open Source Database

The Range Operation Control Center (ROCC) at one of the major US missile and space test ranges collects real-time data from radar sensors to track and predict the path of space objects including asteroids and meteoroids. To make these vital real-time predictions, the ROCC built a real-time data warehousing application that relies on the performance and reliability of MySQL.
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Arkeia protects data for Scandinavian IT reseller

The largest IT reseller in Finland,
Verkkokauppa.com (Webshop.com) relies on Arkeia to back up business data and internet transactions. Recently the company moved to a new location and opened the largest electronics store in all of Scandinavia. About 85 percent of their product sales are ordered through the web. The products are retrieved from the store and delivered by mail.
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T-Systems Relies on MySQL

T-Systems Integration used MySQL to develop a web front end and a back-end order processing application for Westfalia Wekzeugco. GmbH. In addition, T-Systems migrated the database behind their existing Customer Management System, from Oracle to MySQL.

The website www.westfalia.de relies on 11 MySQL Servers, deployed on 4 machines. The Web application processes an average of 170,000 queries per hour, and serves approximately 7.3 million page views per month. The site receives about 400,000 visitors each month.
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Fortum Relies on MySQL to Monitor Power Plant in Real Time

Fortum's Hogdalan power plant near Stockholm, Sweden, is one of Europe's most modern facilities for waste incineration. It produces electricity and heat from municipal waste and processed industrial waste. As management prepared to add a new waste fuel boiler to the plant in late 2004, they found that the current system for monitoring the waste incineration process would become insufficient.

Furthermore, both legal regulations and future business opportunities forced the need to move from collecting data every minute to collecting data every second. Fortum selected MySQL to build its data warehouse solution because of its performance, reliability, and flexibility.
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Sony Reduces Database Costs with MySQL

Sony's original Content Management Systems, FileNet, did not satisfy their requirements out of the box. FileNet had to be heavily customized using Microsoft SQL Server and Active Server Pages using external consulting resources.

Since Sony had successfully implemented MySQL in other projects, they began rewriting the Content Management solution based on the LAMP stack. The new project using MySQL and PHP took a single developer only three months to complete!
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Eniro Powers Online Yellow Pages and Portals with MySQL

Eniro is the leading media company in northern Europe for search channels that connect buyers and sellers. Services include online and printed yellow pages throughout Scandinavia and Finland, Internet and mobile services, and phone and online directory assistance. In a market where services are updated and added daily,

Eniro has found MySQL to be the perfect database because of its ease of use and reliability. In-house technicians are able to set up new databases for production in a matter of hours after receiving specifications from business managers, reducing time to market to a minimum.
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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!
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Evite Relies on MySQL to Deliver Millions of Invitations

The Evite Web site serves 6 million users and delivers up to 9 million invitations each month. Evite had been using Oracle for four years to try to meet all of their data management requirements. However, they found that the Oracle software was very expensive and difficult for less-experienced staff to use.

After only one year, MySQL has become a key part of the IT infrastructure of Evite, taking the place of expensive, proprietary solutions.
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Suzuki Drives Sales and Profitability with MySQL

The Suzuki Sales P.R.O. (Professional Retail Outlet) is an electronic kiosk used at over 600 Suzuki dealerships across the United States. For the first time, prospective customers can build their custom motorcycle in real-time in the dealership. The Suzuki Sales P.R.O. Kiosk relies on MySQL to store all product configurations and pricing details, automatically update dealership product catalogs, enable sales managers to track the performance of their sales staff, and more.

As a result, individual dealership sales have increased up to 35%.
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Los Alamos National Labs Relies on MySQL to Scale with 7 Terabytes of Data.

MySQL is the high-performance database that enabled Los Alamos Labs to deliver SearchPlus, a robust, scalable and secure distributed database containing more than 55 million scientific journal articles. Using SearchPlus, scientists and researchers can to search over 7 terabytes of data for articles and authors more efficiently.

MySQL has proven itself to be the ideal solution for SearchPlus by combining high-performance, superior reliability, scalability, security and replication.
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Lycos Europe Reduces TCO by 90% by Migrating to MySQL.

Lycos Europe migrated all company portal services to MySQL, displacing one of the leading proprietary databases in the market. Replacing their existing database solution with MySQL resulted in more than a 90% savings. Lycos Europe today has approximately 1 terabyte of data handled by 100 MySQL servers. At peak traffic up to 25,000 concurrent users are online and 1 Gb of data per second is delivered to users.
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Pivex Uses MySQL to Make Travel and Hospitality Profits Soar.

Pivex developed Folio Exchange using MySQL which has processed over $200 million in billings for some of the world's leading travel wholesalers including American Airlines Vacations, Pleasant Hawaiian Holidays, and Outrigger Hotels. Folio Exchange is a complete turn-key solution which eliminates up to 90% of the costs of submitting invoices and remitting payments between hotels and travel wholesalers.

The reliability, performance, cost, and the pluggable storage engine architecture of MySQL are the distinguishing factors behind the success of Pivex and Folio Exchange.
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S2 Security Corporation Develops Breakthrough Security Appliance with Embedded MySQL

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.
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Learn How Yahoo! Powers Multiple Properties with MySQL

Yahoo! uses the MySQL database to power many of its web properties. The first was Yahoo! Finance, a popular web site that provides the full spectrum of financial services information.

Now, Yahoo! uses MySQL in many high-volume, business-critical systems throughout its network. Yahoo! has proven many times over that MySQL is an extremely reliable database and capable of even the most demanding, high-traffic applications.
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Cox Communications Powers Massive Data Warehouse with MySQL

Cox Communications is the fourth largest cable-television provider in the United States, serving approximately 6.3 million customers. Cox is noted for its high-capacity, reliable broadband delivery network as well as the company's ability to provide superior customer services.

To maintain optimum performance and customer-service levels, Cox has developed a huge data warehousing application. At the heart of this business-critical system is a 2-billion row MySQL database.
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MySQL Powers Transaction-Heavy News Delivery System for the Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP), the world's oldest and largest news agency with a global daily reach of 1 billion people, provides text, audio, video, news photos, graphics and technology to more than 15,000 media outlets around the world. The AP provides an innovative service called "AP Hosted News" which makes it easy for news providers to integrated AP hosted content to their Web sites.
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Matanuska Telephone Association Relies on MySQL for its Most Critical Data

Matanuska Telephone Association (MTA) has grown into Alaska's largest telephone cooperative, serving 38,000 members over a 10,000 square mile area. MTA delivers communications services that include wireless, high-speed Internet, long distance, and business communications systems.

MySQL is managing the most critical data for the telecom provider, including, subscriber inventory for each of 52,000 access lines, traffic logging, equipment tracking, and government reporting.
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