Continuent Community

Database Month, a new conference "for all things database," starts this week with a series of evening events in NYC. Conference presenters this month will include representatives of Continuent and SkySQL.

Database Trends And Applications [1/17/12]

Lee Margulin, Database Administrator at Zappos.com, speaks about how Zappos uses Tungsten to replicate data between Oracle and MySQL. Established in 1999, Zappos.com has quickly become a leader in online apparel and footwear sales by striving to provide shoppers with the best possible service and selection, with gross merchandise sales exceeding $1B annually. Zappos.com currently stocks millions of products from over 1000 clothing and shoe brands. Zappos.com was recognized in 2009 and 2010 by FORTUNE MAGAZINE as one of the "100 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR".

YouTube [9/8/11]

Continuent, Inc., a provider of replication and clustering solutions for open source databases, announced the release of version 2.0 of its data replication engine, Tungsten Replicator.

For those unaware, a data replication engine replicates multiple tables in a source database to multiple destination databases simultaneously by utilizing customizable SQL statements. These are generally compliant with OLEDB/ODBC databases.

The Tungsten Replicator is a high performance, open source, data replication engine for MySQL and PostgreSQL. It offers global transaction IDs to support failover; flexible transaction filtering; extensible transaction metadata, and more.

infoTECH Spotlight [4/14/11]

Continuent announced the next version of Tungsten Enterprise, a replication and data management solution for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Tungsten Enterprise supports replication and distributed management to create virtualized databases using redundant data copies. The solution "is used in transaction processing for software-as-a-service applications and large web-facing applications," Robert Hodges, CEO of Continuent, tells 5 Minute Briefing. "Its ability to keep data available and spread load across multiple copies is critical in such cases. The fact that we virtualize the database access allows applications to take advantage of these capabilities with minimal change."

Database Trends And Applications, 5 Minute Briefing [3/29/11]

To the consternation of its then-CEO, I wrote very little about my then-client Continuent. However, when I knew Schooner's recent announcement was coming, I reached out to other MySQL scale-out vendors too. I've already posted accordingly about CodeFutures (the dbShards guys) and ScaleBase. Now it's late-responding Continuent's turn. Actually, what I'm mainly going to do is quote a very long email that Continuent's current CEO/former CTO Robert Hodges sent me, and which I lightly edited.

DBMS2 - A Monash Research Publication [2/11]