Posted on Mon, May 06, 2013
Series C provides fuel for company’s growth in real-time analytics, e-commerce, and web-scale applications
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 6, 2013 – Clustrix, the leading scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud, today announced the completion of a $16.5 million round of funding by current investors Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, ATA Ventures, and Don Listwin. This represents the company’s third round of funding, bringing total capital raised to date to $46.5 million. With more than 30 customers worldwide, Clustrix will use the funding to expand distribution of its software to a variety of public and private cloud platforms.
Last month, the company released Clustrix 5.0 on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The AWS offering is the next step in the company’s cloud strategy, following database-as-a-service announcements with Rackspace, GoGrid, Equinix, and BlueBoxGroup. In addition, the company published a breakthrough real-time analytics performance benchmark for its scale-out SQL database, demonstrating a 50x advantage compared to legacy scale-up databases on AWS.
“The combination of big data and cloud computing has broken the legacy database, creating an industry transition to new scale-out database platforms.” said Robin Purohit, CEO at Clustrix. “The Clustrix scale-out SQL database is battle-tested in mission-critical customer applications all over the world, providing unprecedented levels of performance, scalability, and real-time analytics. In our next phase of growth, we are making it easy for developers to build their next great application on our platform.”
“Clustrix has delivered on a complete reinvention of the relational database,” said Chris Rust of U.S. Venture Partners. “The result is a highly differentiated platform that is ideal for the industry transition to cloud computing. The company now has the proven technology, experienced management, and customer traction to disrupt a $28 billion dollar market.”
About Clustrix
Clustrix is the leading scale-out SQL database, engineered for the cloud. Clustrix provides a radically simple SQL database that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, while eliminating database sharding and automating fault tolerance. Clustrix nodes are in production in web-scale applications around the globe, with more than one trillion transactions per month running through Clustrix databases worldwide. Customers include Rakuten, CSC, Symantec, AOL, MakeMyTrip, Photobox, MedExpert, engage:BDR, AdScience, and Massive Media.
Clustrix has its headquarters in San Francisco, with branch offices in Seattle and London. It was founded and is led by executives from companies such as Isilon, AOL, HP, Mercury Interactive and VERITAS, and it is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix/.
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Posted on Wed, Apr 24, 2013
Clustrix on AWS easily scales to tens of terabytes of data, millions of users or devices, with both high-scale transaction and real-time analytics running at the same time
SAN FRANCISCO — April 24, 2013 — Clustrix, the leading scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud, today announced Clustrix 5.0 on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Clustrix 5.0 demonstrates real-time analytics performance on a proven OLTP system. With the addition of AWS, Clustrix is available today on AWS Marketplace, on-demand, and through its popular appliance. Clustrix provided a limited early release of Clustrix built on AWS this winter.
“After creating the world’s leading scale-out SQL database for transactional workloads, we are now bringing real-time analytics to operational data,” said Robin Purohit, CEO of Clustrix. “Now our customers can easily scale-out a database that can support massive transaction volumes and use true, real-time analytics for unmatched operational intelligence to drive real-time business decisions.”
Clustrix Version 5.0 – Scale-out Transactions and Scale-out Analytics
Clustrix 5.0 is for data-driven businesses that require blazingly fast real-time analytics on operational data. Clustrix 5.0 is a row-based SQL database designed to bring Massively Parallel Processing to analytic queries on operational data. The same near-linear scalability Clustrix has previously brought to OLTP workloads is now achievable for analytics. Simply add nodes to scale the system and cut the time to process analytic queries. This scale-out analytics is achieved with innovative distributed aggregates and OLAP fan-out technologies, where multiple cores across multiple nodes work in parallel on analytic queries. Analytic query performance can improve by 25x, and up to 1000x in some cases.
Click here for a link to performance graphs and analysis:
http://docs.clustrix.com/display/CLXDOC/Performance+and+Scalability+on+Clustrix
Old RDBMS vs. New RDBMS
Legacy SQL databases were architected more than 25 years ago in a very different data world. These older “scale-up” architectures are overwhelmed by the large and growing data sets of today’s webscale applications in mobile, social media, ecommerce and vertical markets such as healthcare, education, and gaming. What’s more, the legacy “scale-up” architecture is not well suited to the cloud, which is built upon a “scale-out” foundation. In the same way that scale-out storage and off-line analytics are now the de facto standard for public and private clouds, the next generation of webscale and internet-of-things applications demand a scale-out SQL database that is engineered for the cloud.
“The legacy SQL databases can no longer meet the demands of our applications,” said Kenneth Kwan, CTO for EngageBDR. “We looked long and hard for a database that is built from the beginning to excel on the cloud and can scale both transactions and real-time analytics for our business. With Clustrix, analytic queries that used to take over four hours now complete in 15 seconds, which is clearly a game changer for our online advertising business.”
Clustrix overcomes the limitations of legacy database architectures that create pricing and TCO challenges as applications scale. In this way, Clustrix enables application developers to innovate using the power of SQL and take advantage of the new cloud economics, both in development and production. Clustrix on AWS easily scales to tens of terabytes of data, millions of users or devices, with both high-scale transaction and real-time analytics running at the same time.
Pricing and Support
Customers can start using Clustrix on AWS for as low as $0.12 an hour per node with a 50% introductory promotion through July 24, 2013 in the AWS Marketplace. A single server version is available for free for development and test (only pay AWS instance cost). Clustrix on AWS is available in all AWS regions. Community support is free to all customers, and premium support and consulting are available directly from Clustrix. (http://www.clustrix.com/clustrix-pricing/; http://www.clustrix.com/clustrix-support/)
About Clustrix
Clustrix is the leading scale-out SQL database, engineered for the cloud. Clustrix provides a radically simple SQL database that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, while eliminating database sharding and automating fault tolerance. More than 200 Clustrix nodes are in production in web applications around the globe, with more than one trillion transactions per month running through Clustrix databases worldwide. Customers include Rakuten, CSC, Symantec, AOL, MakeMyTrip, Photobox, MedExpert, AdScience, and Massive Media.
Clustrix has its headquarters in San Francisco, with branch offices in Seattle and London. It was founded and is led by executives from companies such as Isilon, AOL, HP, Mercury Interactive and VERITAS, and it is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix/.
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Posted on Tue, Mar 19, 2013
NewSQL Database Targets Agile Development Teams for e-Commerce Companies
SAN FRANCISCO, CA and CHANDLER, AZ— March 19, 2013 — Clustrix, the leading scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud, today announced a new partnership with ResultsPositive, a leader in IT software services. This brings the Clustrix solution directly to ResultsPositive’s customer base of emerging growth companies using Agile development practices.
“We welcome ResultsPositive to the Clustrix partner ecosystem as they expand their own Software-as-a-Service offerings,” said Robin Purohit, CEO, Clustrix. “Together our innovative technologies are a perfect fit to meet the hyper-scale challenges faced by today’s developers and startups and will reduce database operations costs by more than 10x in some instances.”
“We are excited to partner with Clustrix and extend the unique business value of its scale-out database to our customers. The Clustrix database scales easily to meet growing data needs for internet and ecommerce companies without the cost and effort required by using other solutions,” said Jon Furner, CEO, ResultsPositive.
ResultsPositive SaaS
With more than ten years of business technology experience, ResultsPositive expanded its Software-as-a-Service portfolio last fall from annual hosting services to a SaaS subscription-based model for multiple HP Software solutions. As an HP Elite Partner and certified HP Certified ASMP Tier 1 support provider, ResultsPositive has been committed to providing customers with SaaS services since 2010. The company has more than 150 customers worldwide.
The Scale-Out Database
Clustrix is a distributed SQL relational database that delivers real-time, high-integrity transactions at high concurrency without costly and complex scale-up or predatory licensing from legacy vendors. Clustrix is a fault-tolerant solution that is proven in environments worldwide and is well suited for customers using Agile development practices to build their businesses.
About ResultsPositive
ResultsPositive, award winning HP Partner of the Year for PPM (2010, 2011) & Executive Scorecard (2012), was founded in 2004. Pioneering the Rapid Start implementation solutions for HP IT Performance Suite Software, ResultsPositive is a leader in IT Software consulting delivering Project & Portfolio Management, Application Transformation, Business Intelligence, Mobility, Application Lifecycle Management, IT Service Management, Business Service Management and Healthcare Transformation solutions for medium-sized and Fortune 500 companies.
About Clustrix
Clustrix is the leading scale-out SQL database, engineered for the cloud. Clustrix provides a radically simple SQL database that enables customers to scale transaction throughput, run real-time analytics, and simplify operations. More than 250 Clustrix nodes are in production in web applications around the globe, with more than one trillion transactions per month running through Clustrix databases worldwide. Customers include Rakuten, CSC, Symantec, AOL, MakeMyTrip, Photobox, MedExpert, and Massive Media.
Clustrix has its headquarters in San Francisco, with branch offices in Seattle and London. It was founded and is led by executives from companies such as Isilon, AOL, HP, Mercury Interactive and VERITAS, and it is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit. www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix/.
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Posted on Fri, Dec 14, 2012
Mary Godwin, Isilon and Lucent Veteran Joins Scale-Out DBMS Vendor to Help Steward Next Phase of Growth
San Francisco, Calif. – December 14, 2012 -- Clustrix, the scale-out SQL database for Big Data applications, announced today the appointment of Mary Godwin as vice president of operations.
“Mary joins Clustrix as we experience worldwide expansion,” said Robin Purohit, Clustrix CEO. “Her 20+ years and proven track record in supply chain management and strategic operations for leading global companies makes Mary an invaluable addition to our management team.”
“Clustrix’s customers are global businesses powering their growth with innovative Big Data applications,” said Mary Godwin, Clustrix’s new vice president of operations. “I welcome the challenge of assuring our customers’ success and contributing to the rise of a game-changing company such as Clustrix.”
According to IDC, the Big Data market will soar to $16.9 billion by 2015 from $3.2 billion in 2012. More than 100 terabytes of data is uploaded daily to Facebook alone. Big Data applications demand a modern scale-out relational database that provides a foundation for growth. With the Clustrix database, any company can scale incrementally and infinitely to unlimited users, transactions and data for web, mobile, social, and real-time enterprise applications.
The Clustrix Scale-Out Database
Clustrix is a modern, SQL relational database that delivers real-time, high integrity transactions at high concurrency without costly and complex scale-up or predatory licensing from legacy vendors. Clustrix is a fault tolerant solution that is proven in environments worldwide.
In July, Clustrix released its high-performance SQL database-as-a-service (DBaaS) extending Clustrix’s scalability, performance and availability to the cloud. The Clustrix DBaaS introduces simple, transparent pricing with no meters or limits on transactions, data size or number of users.
Prior to joining Clustrix, Mary was vice president of operations at Isilon (now EMC Isilon), heading up the company’s supply chain and product manufacturing operations. Prior to Isilon, she served as vice president of product and supply chain management at Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel-Lucent) where she developed and implemented product lifecycle strategies to support more than $3 billion in annual revenue.
Ms. Godwin has a twenty year career in operations and supply chain management including leadership positions at Solectron, Set Engineering, Philips Electronics, Radius, Inc., and Apple Computer, in addition to Lucent and Isilon. Ms. Godwin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in plastics engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Santa Clara University.
About Clustrix
Clustrix is the scale-out SQL database for Big Data applications. Clustrix provides a radically simple SQL database that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, while eliminating database sharding and automating fault tolerance. More than 200 Clustrix nodes are in production in web applications around the globe, with more than 500 billion transactions per month running through Clustrix databases worldwide. Customers include Rakuten, CSC, Symantec, AOL, MakeMyTrip, Photobox, and Massive Media.
Clustrix has its headquarters in San Francisco, with branch offices in Seattle and London. It was founded and is led by executives from companies such as Isilon, AOL, HP, Mercury Interactive and VERITAS, and it is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix/
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Posted on Tue, Dec 04, 2012
November Siliconindia.com Lauds Scale-Out Database Leader
San Francisco, Calif. – Dec. 4, 2012 – Clustrix, the leading scale-out SQL database for Big Data applications, announced today that it has been named to the Top 20 Enterprise Software Companies list by Silicon India Magazine. The accolades are published in the November issue of Silicon India Magazine:
http://www.siliconindia.com/magazine_articles/Clustrix_The_Leading_Scaleout_SQL_Database__for_Big_Data_Appli...-SOOQ82959796.html
http://www.siliconindia.com/technology_magazine/November-2012_issue.html
Clustrix is seeing fast growth in India and EMEA with customers such as The Ladders, MakeMyTrip, Massive Media and Photobox among others in the region. The company is expanding its reach to throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa territories.
“Clustrix is honored to be named a top 20 software vendor by one of the leading tech pubs in India,” said Robin Purohit, CEO of Clustrix. “As more and more companies fuel their business with new Big Data applications, Clustrix is rapidly becoming the database of choice to deliver radical scale with radical simplicity.”
The Clustrix NewSQL Distributed Database
Clustrix is a scale-out SQL database that delivers real-time, high integrity transactions at high concurrency without costly and complex scale-up or predatory licensing from legacy vendors. Clustrix is a fault tolerant, self-healing solution that is proven in environments worldwide.
According to IDC, the Big Data market will soar to $16.9 billion by 2015 from $3.2 billion in 2010 with an 80% growth rate in unstructured data. More than 100 terabytes of data is uploaded daily to Facebook alone. Big Data demands a modern scale-out relational database that provides a scalable foundation for growth. With the Clustrix scale-out SQL database, any company can scale incrementally and infinitely to unlimited users, transactions and data for web, mobile, social, and real-time enterprise applications.
About Silicon India Magazine
Silicon India Magazine was launched as a print technology magazine based in New York, NY, in 1997, Today the magazine thrives with headquarters in Bangalore and offices in Delhi, Mumbai and Fremont, CA. www.siliconindia.com/aboutusnew/index.php
About Clustrix
Clustrix is the scale-out SQL database for Big Data applications. Clustrix provides a radically simple SQL database that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, while eliminating database sharding and automating fault tolerance. More than 200 Clustrix nodes are in production in web applications around the globe, with more than 600 billion transactions per month running through Clustrix databases worldwide. Customers include Rakuten, CSC, Symantec, AOL, MakeMyTrip, Photobox, and Massive Media.
Clustrix is located in San Francisco, California, with branch offices in Seattle and London. It was founded and is led by executives from companies such as Isilon, AOL, HP, Mercury Interactive, and VERITAS, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix.
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Posted on Tue, Oct 16, 2012
Best-of-breed companies share a commitment to performance, reliability,
flexibility, and transparency
SAN FRANCISCO — October 16, 2012 — Clustrix, the scale-out SQL database for Big Data applications, and GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced a partnership to make it easier for customers worldwide to use Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solutions.
“GoGrid has a similar transparent approach to its pricing and services as well as a distributed, high-performance cloud,” said Robin Purohit, CEO of Clustrix. “The timing of this partnership is perfect as we recently introduced a Flash-storage-based (SSD), fault-tolerant and self-healing distributed architecture to extend Clustrix’s scalability, performance, and availability to the cloud. Then we added on-demand database administration (DBA) coupled with a simplified pricing structure. Now, customers will have the best of both worlds: the elasticity of the GoGrid cloud plus the power of the Clustrix DBaaS.”
“It’s rewarding to partner with a company like Clustrix that shares so many of our core values, including giving buyers and users of our offerings the benefit of predictability, superior performance, and reliability,” said John Keagy, CEO and founder of GoGrid. “By providing the scalability and flexibility of a cloud-based business model, we help our partners better service the needs of customers.”
About the Clustrix and GoGrid Partnership
The partnership provides customers with a new flexible and integrated platform for the deployment and delivery of transactional web-scale applications and Big Data solutions providing unprecedented performance, scale, and fault tolerance -- all within the GoGrid cloud.
Multiplicative benefits derive from combining collocated Clustrix scale-out database appliances with GoGrid’s industry-leading cloud architecture. This partnership allows cloud applications to obtain secure, seamless, low-latency access to private dedicated MySQL-compliant Clustrix database clusters of massive scale and automated fault tolerance and self-healing capabilities.
Together, the GoGrid and Clustrix combination delivers the highest end-to-end performance, scalability, and availability, which results in a superior quality of service from front-end web servers, to applications, to back-end databases/models.
This new DBaaS offering is available immediately on a monthly subscription basis with Clustrix’s DBA-on-Demand support and its included database backup service. For more information on the Clustrix DBaaS, visit: http://www.clustrix.com
About GoGrid
GoGrid is the world’s #1 pure-play infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider specializing in Public Cloud and Private Cloud infrastructure solutions. Currently powering thousands of customers globally, GoGrid makes complex infrastructure easy by enabling businesses to revolutionize their IT environments with the cloud. In just minutes, GoGrid customers can deploy and begin managing applications and workloads on our proven, secure, and reliable Public Cloud platform. With GoGrid’s Public Cloud and Private Cloud offerings, sysadmins, developers, and IT professionals create, deploy, and control cloud environments and complex virtual and physical server networks with full administrative control; with GoGrid’s Private Cloud customers utilize a private, hosted and managed, single-tenant environment with zero capital expenditure. To further leverage the GoGrid cloud, the GoGrid Exchange provides users with an evolving ecosystem of cloud solutions from GoGrid’s partner community. GoGrid is proud to have been recognized as a “Visionary” two years in a row by Gartner and as a “Champion” by Info-Tech Research Group in 2011 and 2012. For more information, please visit www.gogrid.com.
About Clustrix
Clustrix is the scale-out SQL database for Big Data applications. Clustrix provides a radically simple SQL database that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, while eliminating database sharding and automating fault tolerance. More than 125 Clustrix nodes are in production in web applications around the globe, with more than 500 billion transactions per month running through Clustrix databases worldwide. Customers include Symantec, AOL, MakeMyTrip, Photobox, and Massive Media.
Clustrix has its headquarters in San Francisco, with branch offices in Seattle and London. It was founded and is led by executives from companies such as Isilon, AOL, HP, Mercury Interactive and VERITAS, and it is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix/.
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Posted on Tue, Oct 16, 2012
First Mission-critical, Scale-Out DBaaS Now on the European Continent
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands— October 16, 2012 — Today at GigaOm’s Structure Europe, Clustrix, the scale-out SQL database for Big Data applications, announced a new relationship with Equinix, the global interconnection and data center company. Clustrix selected Equinix as a data center provider to meet the growing demand for its MySQL-compatible, scale-out database from its European installed base, new customers, and cloud partners.
Equinix’s Amsterdam data center is the ideal venue for Clustrix’s Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) debut in Europe. Equinix’s co-location data center services and world-class security combined with low-latency access of Clustrix’s mission-critical, high-performance DBaaS is an ideal solution for fast growing companies in Europe.
“With more than one-third of our customers and strategic cloud partners located in Europe, the Equinix infrastructure is a natural fit for the deployment and delivery of Clustrix's DBaaS,” said Roland Schmidt, Sr. Director of Business Development at Clustrix.
"Equinix is pleased to be working with Clustrix to expand its reach to European customers and cloud partners. By deploying innovative new services from Equinix hubs, Clustrix is taking advantage of a confluence of bandwidth providers and complementary cloud services to meet the needs of European customers, expand its global reach, and scale rapidly in line with growing customer demand,” said Lane Patterson, CTO at Equinix.
The Equinix relationship is a foundational element of Clustrix’s scale-out SQL solution for Big Data applications around the globe. As part of the Equinix ecosystem, Europe-based Clustrix customers can scale-out their services while simultaneously reaping the benefits of stable pricing. Amsterdam’s emergence as Europe’s leading location for hosting, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and cloud presence facilitates global expansion of Clustrix’s customer relationships and strategic partnerships, such as that with GoGrid, which deploys its cloud at Equinix in Amsterdam. This enables Clustrix’s DBaaS presence in GoGrid’s Amsterdam cloud with the same proximity, low latency, high performance, and superior SLA delivery as in GoGrid’s San Francisco-based cloud.
With Equinix’s worldwide and world-class data center reach, Clustrix rapidly extends the deployment and delivery of its DBaaS in Amsterdam today and wherever business demand dictates in the future. For mission-critical DBaaS needs on an infrastructure commensurate with the levels of quality, reliability and availability enterprise customers require, visit Clustrix at: http://www.clustrix.com
About Clustrix
Clustrix is the scale-out SQL database for Big Data applications. Clustrix provides a radically simple SQL database that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, while eliminating database sharding and automating fault tolerance. More than 125 Clustrix nodes are in production in web applications around the globe, with more than 500 billion transactions per month running through Clustrix databases worldwide. Customers include Symantec, AOL, MakeMyTrip, Photobox, and Massive Media.
Clustrix has its headquarters in San Francisco, with branch offices in Seattle and London. It was founded and is led by executives from companies such as Isilon, AOL, HP, Mercury Interactive and VERITAS, and it is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix/.
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Posted on Tue, Oct 02, 2012
Results Shatter Ruby on Rails Perceived Scalability Limitations on MySQL
Blue Box Launches Scalable Ruby on Rails Service Powered by Clustrix
SAN FRANCISCO & NEW YORK — October 2, 2012 — Clustrix, the scale out database for Big Data applications, and Blue Box, the leading provider of hosting services for Ruby on Rails applications, today announced a strategic partnership at Percona Live in New York. In conjunction, Clustrix and Blue Box also made public today the results of the first-ever comprehensive benchmark of Ruby on Rails implementations on MySQL and MySQL-compatible databases. The exciting benchmark results were delivered by Clustrix software development and test engineers Clayton Cole and Neil Harkins during their keynote presentation at Percona Live.
“This industry first benchmark demonstrates to developers that they can scale Rails 10X the expected limitations without pain using the scale-out database from Clustrix,” said Robin Purohit, CEO, Clustrix. “We are excited to partner with Blue Box to make it easy for Ruby on Rails developers to design or migrate their applications onto our database-as-a-service.”
Added Jesse Proudman, Blue Box CEO, “Not only were we able to achieve performance and scalability that is off the charts for the Ruby on Rails market, but this benchmark demonstrates that Rails is ideal for building the next generation of Web and mobile applications. And with Clustrix under the hood as our scale-out database, our customers have no worries about scale, performance and availability.”
About the Ruby on Rails Benchmark
Tacit Knowledge, a software engineering firm, along with Clustrix, designed and coded the benchmark’s application, which simulated an auction website with social media components. They implemented the schema within the Rails framework, then crafted 13 scenarios to demonstrate user interactions that would cause database operations—from simple INSERTs to multiple UPDATEs inside a transaction and JOINs.
Blue Box hosted the testing environment and supplied the MySQL server and client servers for the benchmark, and Percona, the largest independent MySQL support and consulting company, validated the MySQL server configuration used in the benchmark.
The initial data set size was 475 GB, to emulate a real-world production environment and to ensure the data set significantly exceeded total memory sizes. The benchmark used a mix of the different workload scenarios in a ratio of 52% reads to 48% writes, run at random with an equal probability of executing each scenario. Numbers of concurrent users (threads) were ramped up from one to well past 10,000.
Benchmark test results were captured in terms of Transactions Per Second (TPS) and in average scenario execution time (in whole seconds) for each of the three database setups observed (MySQL, three-node Clustrix, and six-node Clustrix). The application and test configuration parameters were unchanged from the MySQL setup to Clustrix’s MySQL drop-in replacement database.
At 1,024 concurrent users – around the point where an application or website is gaining popularity – the Rails application powered by a three-node Clustrix cluster executed 8X the observed TPS of standard MySQL, while the six-node cluster executed 15X MySQL’s observed TPS. (Actual TPS: 3,500 for MySQL, 29,000 for three-node cluster and 53,000 for a six-node cluster.) In addition, at 1024 concurrent users, transaction response times were 25X faster on the Clustrix configuration, averaging around 100 milliseconds compared to ~2.5 seconds on the MySQL setup.
To download the complete Ruby on Rails benchmark white paper click on this link: Ruby on Rails Database Benchmark: Clustrix and MySQL
About the Blue Box/Clustrix Partnership
The partnership between Clustrix and Blue Box includes the integration of the Clustrix Database-as-a-Service solution into Blue Box’s service using Ruby on Rails. The Blue Box scale-out Rails service, powered by the Clustrix Database-as-a-Service, is available now.
For more information on the scale-out Rails solution, please contact Blue Box at sales@bluebox.net or Clustrix at sales@clustrix.com.
Clustrix Database-as-a-Service
In July, Clustrix released its high-performance SQL Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), extending Clustrix’s scalability, performance and availability to the cloud. The Clustrix DBaaS introduces simple, transparent pricing with no meters or limits on transactions, data size or number of users.
About Clustrix
Clustrix is the scale-out SQL database for Big Data applications. Clustrix provides a radically simple SQL database that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, while eliminating database sharding and automating fault tolerance. More than 125 Clustrix nodes are in production in web applications around the globe, with more than 500 billion transactions per month running through Clustrix databases worldwide. Customers include Symantec, AOL, MakeMyTrip, Photobox, and Massive Media.
Clustrix has its headquarters in San Francisco, with branch offices in Seattle and London. It was founded and is led by executives from companies such as Isilon, AOL, HP, Mercury Interactive and VERITAS, and it is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix/.
About Blue Box
Blue Box, founded in 2003, is a leading provider of managed application hosting for platform and infrastructure solutions. Our clients receive white- glove 24/7 support through our industry-leading technical implementation and management expertise. With ownership and control of the infrastructure and full data location transparency, Blue Box delivers comprehensive hosting solutions with game-changing uptime to enterprises and applications of any size. To learn more about Blue Box, visit www.bluebox.net, http://www.facebook.com/BlueBoxGroup, www.twitter.com/bluebox, or call 1.800.613.4305.
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Media Contacts:
Leigh Anne Varney & Lisa Sheeran
Varney Business Communication
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415.387.7250
Posted on Wed, Aug 22, 2012
India’s Leading Online Travel Agency Targets Ambitious Growth Goals and Charts Extensive Cost Savings
NoSQL Now! Booth#: 124
SAN FRANCISCO, CA & GURGAON, INDIA— August 22, 2012 —Today at NoSQL Now! conference, MakeMyTrip.com, India’s leading Online Travel Agency (OTA) announced it has implemented Clustrix to migrate its existing database platform to increase scale in their existing SQL database for Big Data applications and meet increased demands during peak travel seasons. Founded in 2000 by Deep Kalra, MakeMyTrip (MMYT) was the pioneering travel portal in India that revolutionized the way travel products were bought. It has since grown to become India’s leading travel portal, charting year-to-year constant currency net revenue growth rate of 51% in fiscal year 2012.
Elaborating on this decision, Sanket Atal, Chief Technology Officer, MakeMyTrip said, “MakeMyTrip is committed to focus on technology and innovation to enable superior service delivery. We believe Clustrix's blazingly fast and powerful database will enhance our ability to innovate and continuously improve our customers' experience. This migration enables us to comprehensively address the challenges of running a seasonal business in a 24x7 world and allows our developers to focus on the innovations that set our travel portal apart.”
Added Sergei Tsarev, Clustrix’s CTO, “Changing the database was paramount for MakeMyTrip to maintain its competitive advantage in the travel market. Clustrix became the perfect choice to provide the power and flexibility needed to accommodate its rapid growth and new product lines.”
Key Clustrix benefits include:
- Simple installation and implementation that doesn’t require new DBA skills
- Expert 24x7 customer support to optimize database performance
- Self-healing fault tolerance that assures no single point of failure
- Horizontal scalability to increase capacity by simply adding nodes;
- Online schema changes that enable rapid and ongoing application innovation
- Sustained application performance as the customer base, transaction volume, and database size grows.
For a demo of Clustrix, please visit booth 124 at the NoSQL Now! Conference.
About MakeMyTrip Limited and MakeMyTrip.com
MakeMyTrip Limited is the parent company of MakeMyTrip (India) Private Limited, India’s largest online travel company, MakeMyTrip.com Inc., Luxury Tours & Travel Pte Ltd, Singapore (LTT) and Luxury Tours (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd. The Company’s services and products include air tickets, customized holiday packages, hotel bookings, railway tickets, bus tickets, car hire and facilitating access to travel insurance.
Through its primary website, www.makemytrip.com, and other technology-enhanced platforms, the company provides access to all major domestic full-service and low-cost airlines operating in India, all major airlines operating to and from India, over 8900 hotels in India and a wide selection of hotels outside India, Indian Railways and several major Indian bus operators.
About Clustrix
Clustrix is the scale-out SQL database for Big Data applications. Clustrix provides a radically simple SQL database that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, while eliminating database sharding and automating fault tolerance. More than 125 Clustrix nodes are in production in web applications around the globe, with more than 500 billion transactions per month running through Clustrix databases worldwide. Customers include Symantec, AOL, MakeMyTrip, Photobox, and Massive Media.
Clustrix has its headquarters in San Francisco, with branch offices in Seattle and London. It was founded and is led by executives from companies such as Isilon, AOL, HP, Mercury Interactive and VERITAS, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix/.
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Clustrix is trademarked in the U.S. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Other product or company names mentioned may be trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.
Media Contacts:
Leigh Anne Varney, & Lisa Sheeran, Poonam Thakur
Varney Business Communication, MakeMyTrip
la@varneybusiness.com; sheeran@earthlink.net, poonam.thakur@makemytrip.com
415.387.7250 +91 124 4910 560
Posted on Wed, Jul 18, 2012
Clustrix Turns to Rackspace to Provide a Reliable and Scalable Hosting Infrastructure for its SQL Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) for Big Data
SAN FRANCISCO – July 18, 2012 – Clustrix today announced it has joined the partner program of Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the service leader in cloud computing. Rackspace will host the Clustrix high-performance SQL database-as-a service (DBaaS) offering, also announced today.
“Our DBaaS customers need a solid and reliable cloud infrastructure on which to grow their businesses, and Rackspace is the service leader in cloud computing,” said Sergei Tsarev, CTO and co-founder of Clustrix. “Rackspace’s unparalleled managed hosting expertise, backed by its Fanatical Support®, provides the best of all worlds for our customers building Big Data applications at the intersection of Big Data, Cloud and Agile development.”
The Clustrix DBaaS offering extends Clustrix’s scalability, performance and availability to the cloud, and it introduces simple, transparent database pricing without limitations for Big Data applications in the cloud.
“Rackspace is proud to have Clustrix join our partner program and to serve as the hosting solution for Clustrix’s first cloud-based offering,” said Christopher Rajiah, vice president of worldwide channel sales at Rackspace. “We are pleased to provide Fanatical Support to our partners and their respective customers, and we look forward to ongoing collaboration with Clustrix.”
About Clustrix
Clustrix is the scale-out SQL database for Big Data applications. Clustrix provides a radically simple SQL database that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, while eliminating database sharding and automating fault tolerance. Customers include Symantec, AOL, MakeMyTrip, Photobox, and Massive Media.
Clustrix has its headquarters in San Francisco, with branch offices in Seattle and London. It was founded and is led by executives from companies such as Isilon, AOL, HP, Mercury Interactive and VERITAS, and it is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix/.
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Media Contact
Leigh Anne Varney & Lisa Sheeran
Varney Business Communication
la@varneybusiness.com; sheeran@earthlink.net
415.387.7250