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MySQL And PostgreSQL Performance Tools Offered by Continuent

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Published on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 08:00

Continuent, Inc., a provider of replication and clustering solutions for open source databases, 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."

The new release has capabilities for managing databases in cloud environments as well, says Hodges. "Operating databases in cloud environments is really just beginning, as there are a number of issues in operating high-performance databases in virtualized environments like Amazon," he says. "Tungsten Enterprise is well-suited particularly for emerging mixed environments where the application tier is fully virtualized while the DBMS runs on hardware."

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