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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 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'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 »
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 »
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. More »
Until 2005, Alcatel's legacy HLR system had been based on proprietary database technology. However given the enormous growth in the number of subscribers it became apparent to Alcatel that they needed a new solution. After an extensive evaluation period and numerous performance benchmark tests, Alcatel selected MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition as their database of choice for their next generation HLR solution. Download the PDF »
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 »
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. More »
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’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! More »
mixi is the largest Social Networking Site (SNS) in Japan and is ranked in the Top 30 most trafficked Web sites in the world. mixi deploys over 100 MySQL Servers to manage over 3 million users who are creating diaries, posting messages, paying for premium services, and more. mixi is adding 15,000 new members every day and generates over 150 million page views/day using MySQL! Download the PDF »
Somix Technologies 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, Somix captures 20x more data than existing network management products. Somix relies on MySQL to manage these high-volumes of data. Download the PDF »
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 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 »
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. Download the PDF »
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. Download the PDF »
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 »
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 »
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. Download the PDF »
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 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. More »
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 »
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 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 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 »
H&M is a major worldwide retailer of fashion and cosmetics. With more than 1,000 stores in 20 countries, the company has over 40,000 employees. In Scandinavia, H&M Rowells employs more than 200 persons in a call centre covering markets in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. The call centre staff manages more than two million customer contacts annually, mainly through phone and e-mail. By deploying the MySQL-based Cention Contact Center, H&M Rowells has increased the number of e-mails processed per hour by approximately 25% while actually improving the customer perception of H&M service quality." Download the PDF »
Clicktools is a UK-based application service provider (ASP), the first vendor to develop and deliver enterprise-strength On Demand Feedback Management services at a price that everyone can afford. When first developing their Web service, it was clear to Clicktools' management team that their software would need to be highly reliable - in addition to powerful. They didn't want to build and staff the hosting infrastructure themselves. Unfortunately, several initial hosting firms they tried had caused many sleepless nights, with poor quality technical support and reliability. Clicktools found a perfect solution to their needs provided through Rackspace Managed Hosting and MySQL. MySQL Hosting provides companies with a high-performance, enterprise-class database integrated in a secure, scalable Web hosting environment. Download the PDF »
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 »
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 »
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 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'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'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 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 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 »
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 »
The Suzuki Sales P.R.O. (Professional Retail Outlet) is an electronic kiosk used at over 600 Suzuki dealerships across the United States. For the first time, prospective customers can build their custom motorcycle in real-time in the dealership. The Suzuki Sales P.R.O. Kiosk relies on MySQL to store all product configurations and pricing details, automatically update dealership product catalogs, enable sales managers to track the performance of their sales staff, and more.
As a result, individual dealership sales have increased up to 35%. Download the PDF »
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 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 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 »
Sabre Holdings uses MySQL to power its air shopping and pricing application for Internet-based travel booking. Sabre estimated a 40% TCO savings when budgeting for the $100 million project. In many cases, the ongoing TCO savings are expected to be up to 80% - twice what was estimated.
This translates into tens of millions of dollars saved upfront, and millions saved annually thereafter. Download the PDF »
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. Download the PDF »
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 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 »
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 »
By migrating to Linux and MaxDB as their platform of choice, Enercon was able to quickly realize significant improvements that contributed to their cost savings:
Learn how you can do the same! More »
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. More »
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. More »
