導入事例

• Pricer 社MySQL Embedded で小売システムの効率性を向上 Pricer は、スーパーマーケットの陳列棚で価格と製品情報を提供する電子棚札（ESL: Electronic Shelf Label）システムの世界的なリーダー企業で、小売業界に、バックオフィス管理ツールを含む電子価格および情報システムを提供しています。Pricer は、MySQL を使用してシステムを構築し、導入企業の業務の効率化と収益性向上得を実現しました。詳細を読む »
• 新生銀行 MySQLとSugarCRMでエンタープライズアプリケーションの導入を迅速に実現 新生銀行は日本の大手金融機関です。新生銀行は、自社のCRM（カスタマー・リレーションシップ・マネジメント）システムをMySQL とSugarCRM で標準化するとともに、アプリケーションの導入方法として独自の"パス方式" アプローチを開発しました。これによりビジネス要件の変化に合わせて柔軟にシステムを修正することができるようになりました。その結果、完全に新しいエンタープライズシステムを4 分の1 の期間で開発し、それを、従来のメインフレームと商用パッケージソフトウェアを使用した場合と比較して、90%のコスト削減を実現しました。詳細を読む »
• Big Fish Games 社 MySQL Query Analyzer でデータ ベースパフォーマンスを 3 倍に改善 Big Fish Games は、オンラインゲーム業界の世界的なリーダー企業で、その固有なカスタマアカウントは2,500 万を超え、毎月250 万のユーザがアクセスしています。MySQL を使用することによりコストおよびハードウェア要求を抑えつつ、迅速にビジネスを成長させることができ、Big Fish Games は業界リーダーとなるまでに急速に成長しました。MySQL Query Analyzer を使用することで、問題のあるSQLコードを特定および解析して、データベースパフォーマンスを3 倍に改善することができました。。詳細を読む »
• Clickability 社 MySQL Query Analyzer によりパフォーマンスとスケーラビリィを劇的に改善 Clickability社 は、オンデマンドWeb Content Management の世界的なリーダー企業で、数百のカスタマに毎月3.5 億を超えるページビューをサポートしています。Clickability社 はMySQL Query Analyzer を利用して、最も頻繁に使用されるクエリ、返される結果セットが最大のクエリ、処理時間が最も長いクエリなどを調べて改善することで、データベース負荷を軽減し、パブリッシュアプリケーションのパフォーマンスを倍にすることができました。デバッグの時間を短縮、コストを削減し、ハードウェアの使用を効率化して、より少ないリソースで拡張を実現しています。詳細を読む »
• ミクシィ社MySQLで大規模なスケールアウトを実現 mixi は、日記の作成、コミュニティへの参加、メッセージの交換、写真の共有などでコミュニケーションを楽しむことができる日本最大のソーシャル・ネットワーキングサービス(SNS)です。Alexa のトラフィック数ランキングでは、日本のトップ3にランクされています。サービスの使いやすさと、急激に増加を続けるユーザー数に対応できるハイパフォーマンスとスケーラビリティが、この成功に大いに貢献していると考えています。数百台以上のMySQL Serverを使用して、1,500万人以上のユーザーの日記作成、メッセージ投稿、mixiプレミアムの支払いなどを管理しています。詳細を読む »
• CONCEIVIUM 社 BlackBerry エンタープライズサーバのリアルタイム分析においてMySQL を絶大に信頼 Conceivium Business Solution は、世界のトップ5 の銀行のうちの3 行や、The Coca Cola Company、IBM Global Services、Dubai World、The US Army、Vodacom South Africa および Fortune 500 の多数の企業において、BESが24時間365日、最適な状態で稼働することを確実にしています。Conceivium 社の MobileMonitor エージェントは、MySQL Embedded Server によって 70% のパフォーマンスの向上を達成し、平均すると1日あたり2 ギガバイト以上のデータを分析し、1 秒あたり数千のトランザクションを実行することができます。詳細を読む »
• 野村総合研究所 資産運用向けシステムの基幹データベースに MySQL Enterprise を採用 野村総合研究所(NRI) は、企業のビジネス課題を発見するコンサルティングから、解決策としてのソリューション、そしてシステム運用までを一貫して提供する日本を代表するシステムインテグレータです。NRI が持つ多くの金融業務に関するノウハウを活かし、証券・金融・保険など国内外の金融ビジネスに関わる顧客に対し、迅速なビジネスの立ち上げの支援や競争力強化のためのトータルシステムソリューションを高い品質で提供して います。さらに流通、ヘルスケア、公共など幅広い産業に向けたソリューションをラインナップしています。基幹のデータベースにはMySQL を採用し、NRI が多く実績を持つOSS スタックOpenStandia Application Server と組み合わせることで、低価格かつ高品質なシステムを実現しました。詳細を読む »
• NTTコムウェア社 MySQL によってコンビニ収納代行システムのオープン化とコスト削減に成功 NTTコムウェアでは、高度な通信基盤システムを展開してきたSIer としての経験から、ブロードバンド・ユビキタス社会における先進的なシステムやアプリケーションの開発には、"オープンソースソフトウェア"（OSS） の活用が不可欠だと考えています。NTTコムウェアが提供しているコンビニ収納代行サービス「スマートピット」のサーバを更改する際も、課題としてオープン化とコスト削減が掲げられました。OSS を使用することで、使用できる他のツールの選択肢も多くなり、将来的な機能拡張性の可能性が広がるからです。大量のデータを安全に、高速に処理でき、高可用性であるという性能面を満たす必要もありました。これらの要件を満たし、コスト的にも一番安価であることから、MySQL が選択されました。オープンソース化することによる性能の低下はなく、既存システムの信頼性、品質を踏襲することに成功しました。詳細を読む »
• サイボウズ社 MySQLで大規模利用環境に対応 サイボウズは創業以来、Webベースのグループウェア製品を中心に、企業向けソフトウェアを提供してきました。大規模向けのグループウェア「ガルーン 2」の開発にあたり、自社製データベースへの限界を感じ、スケーラビリティの高い製品アーキテクチャを構築する必要に迫られ開発がスタートしました。課題を解決するためのコストを自社で払い続けることはできないと判断し、サードパーティ製データベースへの移行が決断され。組み込みでの使用に問題の無いライセンス体系、導入コスト、利用実績などを主な要件として重要視した結果、MySQL の採用が決定されました。詳細を読む »
• FairWarning社 MySQL でHIPAA 医療セキュリティコンプライアンスの自動化を実現 FairWarning® 社は、電子カルテ（EHR）の医療プライバシー監査ソリューションの世界的な大手サプライヤです。FairWarning は、MemorialCare®、Saint Luke’s Health System、Columbus Regional Hospital など、米国全体の医療組織を支援するソリューションを提供しています。FairWarning のソリューションを利用すると、医療セキュリティの侵害を未然に検出できるだけでなく、>広範囲なアプリケーションやシステムにおける監査ログの処理を自動化することによって、多大な費用を削減することができます。詳細を読む »
• MacPractice社 MySQL で診療管理および臨床向け高機能ソリューションを実現 MacPractice 社（以下、MacPractice）は、Apple Mac システムで稼働する診療管理と臨床向けのソフトウェア、ハードウェア、およびサービスを開発し提供するリーディング企業です4 年足らずで2,000 を超えるシステムの導入実績を誇ります。患者データ、臨床情報、処方履歴、会計履歴など、すべての重要データの管理にMySQL が使用されています。詳細を読む »
• アドビ システムズ 大手ソフトウェア会社のアドビ システムズ社は、印刷、Web、インタラクティブ、モバイル、ビデオ、映像用クリエイティブツールのリーディングプロバイダです。アドビは Adobe Acrobat CS3、Adobe® Bridge CS3、Adobe® Version Cue® CS3 をはじめ、複数の Adobe Creative Suite 3 コンポーネントに MySQL を組み込み、複雑なプロジェクトにおいても効率的な共同作業を進めることができます。詳細を読む »
• Alcatel-Lucent MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Editionで 6,000 万超の加入者をサポート 2005 年まで、Alcatel のレガシーHLR システムは独自のデータベース技術をベースとしていました。しかし、システムが効率的に管理すべき加入者数が急増していることを考えれば、新しいソリューションが必要なことは明らかでした。アプリケーションの中心となる加入者データベースは、長期的に見て実行可能な代替技術であることに加えて、高い柔軟性を備え、より低いコストで高度なパフォーマンス、拡張性、信頼性を提供するものであることが必要でした。徹底的な評価と数々のパフォーマンスベンチマークテストを行なった結果、Alcatel はMySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition を次世代HLR ソリューションのデータベースとして選択することにしました。詳細を読む »
• M1社が導入するMySQL Cluster hSenid 社のキャリアグレードソリューションを利用することで、テレコムサービス加入者1 人あたりの収益アップを実現 M1 社は100 万人以上のサービス加入者を擁するシンガポール 屈指のモバイル通信プロバイダです。MySQL Cluster を利用し、販促キャンペーンや各種ロイヤリティプログラムを迅速に展開することを可能にしています。詳細を読む »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• NetQoS Delivers Distributed Network 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• Quantel Innovates with MySQL to Reduce Time-to-Air for Broadcasters 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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!Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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. Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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. Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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!Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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!Download the PDF »
• 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. Download the PDF »
• 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. Download the PDF »
• 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. Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Download the PDF »
• 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.Read more »
• 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.Download the PDF »