Guide to Cost-effective Database Scale-Out using MySQL

The current economic environment is forcing CIOs and IT Managers to focus on supporting key business requirements with less expensive IT infrastructure. Specifically, as more and more organizations rely on the Internet, they must be able to cost-effectively increase capacity of their infrastructure without sacrificing performance in order to grow their business.

For example, online companies such as Friendster, Citysearch, and Yahoo must be able to accommodate the exponential grow in their online community and the data being delivered. In addition, traditional companies in telecom, retail, and financial industries are building more self-service applications to improve efficiencies and cut costs. These applications must also scale in order for these organizations to increase their revenues and improve customer satisfaction. No businesses are unaffected by the growing volume of online data and the need for greater analysis and faster responsiveness. What will separate the strong companies from the weak is their ability to meet the growing demands in a cost-effective fashion.

For growing organizations, adding more infrastructure capacity using a proprietary solution requires large up front software and hardware investments. Many companies find that with a proprietary solution they will not be able to execute on their business plan because the cost of software alone is prohibitive. When you factor in the cost of large Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP) hardware, the cost problem is further exacerbated. MySQL enables organizations to eliminate the "database tax" associated with proprietary closed source software and reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) enabling them to more readily accommodate growing demands for database capacity.

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