MySQL AB Announces Record Cluster Database Benchmark Results

MySQL Cluster Carrier-Grade Edition Scales to 100,000 Transactions per Minute in DBT2 Benchmark

2007 MySQL Conference & Expo, Santa Clara, Calif. -- April 26, 2007 -- MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced the results of recent DBT2 benchmarks of its MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition database. The announcement was made this morning at the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo. Tests were conducted in collaboration with Intel Corporation and Dolphin Interconnect Solutions.

The benchmark results show the very high scalability of MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition, attaining a rate of 100,000 transactions per minute (TpM) using an 8-node cluster. In this benchmark, the latest generation of the Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor family provided a significant step forward in scalability, showing a 75-percent speed improvement over tests run on previous generation Intel Xeon processor systems(1).

“We are proud to show the amazing scalability of our open source database technology working with state-of-the-art technology partners,” said Jeffrey Pugh, MySQL AB’s vice president of Engineering. “These results are possible due to some recently-developed performance enhancements in our MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade database -- and now make it possible to potentially reach millions of transactions per minute with a sufficiently larger configuration.”

"MySQL's high-availability cluster database on Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor based systems brings tremendous value to telecom customers and provides a cost effective solution on Intel’s energy-efficient servers,” said Paresh Pattani, director of High Performance Technical Computing, Software and Solutions Group, Intel Corporation. “Intel worked closely with MySQL Cluster and Dolphin ICS to optimize the solution and recent test results for the latest Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based clusters are very impressive. We expect the performance to scale even better onQuad-Core Intel Xeon processor based clusters."

In the benchmark, Dolphin Interconnect Solutions’ new Dolphin Express™ adapter cards delivered a low latency and high-performance connection between cluster nodes. This solution had a very high impact on response times within the cluster, leading to a more than three-fold improvement in some tests -- with an incredible boost in throughput, especially in larger clusters.

“Through our partnership with MySQL, we are committed to bringing leading database performance solutions to the marketplace,” said Kare Lochsen, CEO of Dolphin Interconnect Solutions. “These benchmark results, using the Dolphin Express interconnect technology, demonstrate the value that MySQL Cluster can deliver to customers with demanding requirements.”

For detailed information on these benchmark results, please visit www.mysql.com/benchmarks.

MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition is a real-time, shared-nothing clustered database system that has been specially designed to meet the high availability, scalability and low latency requirements of telecom applications. Based on technology initially developed by Ericsson, MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition is already at the heart of subscriber databases and SDP applications for leading TEMs, including Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia.

More information -- including a new technical whitepaper on using MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition in telecom environments -- is available at www.mysql.com/telecom.

About MySQL

MySQL AB develops and supports a family of high-performance, affordable database products. The company’s flagship offering is 'MySQL Enterprise’, a comprehensive set of production-tested software, proactive monitoring tools, and premium support services.

MySQL is the world's most popular open source database software, with over 11 million active installations. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software -- including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel, The Associated Press, Suzuki and NASA.

With headquarters in the United States and Sweden -- and operations around the world -- MySQL AB supports both open source values and corporate customers' needs in a profitable, sustainable business model. For more information about MySQL, please visit www.mysql.com.

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(1) Tests were performed on cluster consisting of dual-socket 2.67 Ghz Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5150 processor nodes provisioned with 4GB of RAM (1GB/core). Interconnect tests featured Dolphin Express D352 based fabric v. integrated Gigabit Ethernet as baseline. Previous generation Intel testing was conducted on single-socket dual-core clusters, similarly provisioned on per-core basis and with Dolphin Express D350 based fabric.

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