Tag Archives: sharding

December 12, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

ScaleBase–Making MySQL Fly!

By Ben Kepes

I got a release the other day that will be pretty interesting for those worried about scaling MySQL up to high transaction counts. ScaleBase (more on them here) have just achieved a rate of 190000 transactions a minute while sitting within an Amazon RDS environment. It’s an interesting result, and

Tagged Database, MySQL, Scalability, ScaleBase, sharding |

August 15, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

ScaleBase goes General Availability

By Ben Kepes

I spent some time a week or two ago talking with Liran Zelka, co-founder of Database proxy provider ScaleBase. I first talked with Zelka at CloudConnect earlier in the year, and the reason for our catch up was to discuss the fact that ScaleBase is going into general availability this

Tagged Database, Load Balancing, Michael Stonebraker, MySQL, Open source, ScaleBase, sharding |

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.