MySQL Database Scale-out and Replication for High Growth Businesses

Monday, December 1, 2008 at 4:01AM
peterb_2008 in MySQL, database replication, replication, scale-out, web 2.0

It is widely recognized that MySQL is the most popular database software in the world. Since its inception in 1995, there have been 11 million product installations around the world in a wide variety of markets. There are more installations of MySQL in use today than any other database architecture. From startup companies hoping to be the next Web2.0 poster child to large global enterprises, the MySQL database architecture has proven to be flexible, extendable, scalable, and more than capable of filling high-capacity database roles in very different venues.

Article originally appeared on (http://highscalability.com/).