 Dear , We are pleased to announce the exciting new Release 2007 of Continuent uni/cluster.
Continuent, Inc., the leading provider of commercial open source middleware solutions for database high availability and scalability, announced earlier today Continuent™ 2007 uni/cluster.
Continuent’s uni/cluster 2007 family includes two database specific products:
- Continuent uni/cluster 2007 for MySQL Enterprise and
- Continuent uni/cluster 2007 for PostgreSQL
The new release includes performance improvements of 100% or more, a new uni/cluster Connector to allow MySQL clients to connect directly without special libraries, and better configuration, management and administration tools.
With this release Continuent also promotes Super Durable Commit, which ensures that all valuable transactions are committed to multiple locations to avoid data loss. This feature is enabled by uni/cluster’s replication mechanism, which synchronously commits data to each database in the cluster, thus providing a solution for health care and other highly regulated environments that require absolute confidence that all transactions have been committed and can’t be lost.
If you are concerned about any of the following…
- Application Availability
- Read Scalability
- Write Scalability
- 100% confidence that all transaction will be committed
- Disaster Recovery
- Geographically Distributed Operations
… you want to talk with Continuent, the High Availability and Scalability Experts!
Please go to Continuent’s web site to register for a free evaluation:
Continuent uni/cluster 2007 Evaluation
Also, go to Continuent’s web site to sign up for a webinar on May 10th to learn more about Continuent’s high availability and scalability solution:
Continuent Database Middleware Webinar
Cheers,
Robert Hodges
CTO
robert.hodges@continuent.com
Pascal Bresson
Director of Product Management
pascal.bresson@continuent.com
PS. Continuent is hiring! We are actively seeking new employees in the USA. Open positions include full-time Sales Engineers, Support Engineers; plus Database Solution Architects on a consulting basis. Interested parties should visit www.continuent.com/About Us/Careers for more information.
Continuent uni/cluster Release 2007 – Summary of Key Features
Continuent plans to deliver uni/cluster 2007 in May 2007. This release contains a number of important enhancements based on our experience with production deployments that will help users set up, deploy, and manage database clusters more efficiently.
Over 100% Performance Improvements
uni/cluster 2007 contains a number of performance improvements designed to reduce latency of operations and raise throughput. Among other changes, throughput of SQL write statements like INSERT or UPDATE is more than doubled over the previous release. Memory usage has been improved. Other operations have been carefully tuned.
Super Durable Commit
Super Durable Commit ensures that valuable transactions are committed to multiple locations to avoid data loss. This feature is enabled by uni/cluster’s replication mechanism, which synchronously commits data to each database in the cluster.
uni/cluster Connector for MySQL
uni/cluster Connector for MySQL allows standard MySQL clients to connect to uni/cluster directly without the need for extra libraries on the client host. This feature greatly enhances uni/cluster integration with MySQL, as clients written in any language can connect to uni/cluster from any platform as if they were speaking directly to a native MySQL Server. The first release supports all client features other than prepared statements, which will be added in the next release.
EnterpriseDB PostgreSQL Mode Certification
With this release uni/cluster has installation-time support for EnterpriseDB, which allows users to run with JDBC drivers shipped with EnterpriseDB database server 8.1. Currently only PostgreSQL mode is supported on EnterpriseDB; Oracle PL/SQL mode support will be added in a later release.
Administration Changes
The command line console has a number of additions designed to simplify administrative commands and reduce chances of operator error. Among other things, these improvements allow users to enable and disable database back-ends in groups and reduce response time of status commands commonly used for monitoring. In addition to command line tools, both upgrade and patch processes are greatly improved.
Virtual Database Enhancements
uni/cluster 2007 introduces the ability to store virtual database recovery logs in MySQL, which has both good performance as well as reliability. In addition, this release removes restart ordering dependencies for controllers and virtual databases, thereby making cluster start-up following events like machine reboot simpler and more reliable. Finally, the release includes improved procedures for handling network partitions.
Java JDK 1.6 Certification
As of uni/cluster 2007, uni/cluster is certified for use with Java JDK 1.6.
Improved Distribution of Native APIs
Native API binary builds will be simplified and conveniently distributed through the open source Carob project hosted at www.continuent.org. As of uni/cluster 2007 native API code will also be available in the form of source builds, which allow users to build APIs quickly on non-standard platforms.
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