Clustrix Database Appliances Score High on Scalability and Performance in Percona Tests

Clustrix (News - Alert), developer of new NewSQL database with no limits, announced that its Database Appliances have tested high on performance and level of scalability when compared to MySQL Systems in a Percona (News - Alert) head-to-head evaluation. Users of Clustrix who have deployed the company's devices in web environments are not required to sacrifice transactions or ACID properties and relational semantics as well as other SQL features essential to address the performance and scalability requirements of rapidly advancing high-traffic Internet applications.

Percona, an independent MySQL consulting company, conducted a Percona devised, TPCC standard against its MySQL Server over an Intel (News - Alert)-SSD based machine and MySQL on a Fusion-io-based machine, as well as a variety of Clustrix database appliances supported on a parallel distributed database structure.

In a release, Aaron Passey, Clustrix CTO, said, "The most interesting conclusion in my opinion is the fact that transactional, relational, full-featured SQL can scale and Clustrix has proved it in this testing and at multiple production customer deployments around the world. The test showed a complicated workload with multi-statement transactions, aggregates, foreign key constraints, and a large percentage of writes, which are what the NoSQL movement has proclaimed as too difficult to scale. Clustrix has solved this problem; once more, we deliver the unlimited scale promised by NoSQL without giving up the features of SQL, at unmatched performance."

The Clustrix database appliances deliver performance and scalability in addition to providing customers with fault tolerance capability without a single point of failure. MySQL systems which were tested featured a Fusion-io card and or SSD drives in RAID 0 configurations. In the event that a component such as either the drive or the motherboard fails or in the event of memory failure, the complete database will go down. One of the first observations in the Percona tests was that of increased reliability in scaling capabilities of the Clustrix database systems. Concurrency and performance requirements correspondingly increases with expanding user base of a website while the user expectations for either same time response or better response time ramp up as well.

According to Percona, the experts in MySQL performance, "For highly concurrent workloads, Clustrix provides great performance, and if you need better throughput, it scales just by adding more nodes."