Monday, April 12, 2010

Genealogy Pioneer Deploys dbShards to Dramatically Improve Reliability and Scalability of its Database

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

CodeFutures Debuts dbShards Enterprise Edition With Successful Implementation at eAgency

LOUISVILLE, CO–(Marketwire – September 1, 2009) – CodeFutures Corporation, empowering
enterprises to “share nothing, shard everything,” today announced the
launch of dbShards Enterprise Edition, which provides cost-effective
database scalability and performance using database sharding. The solution
has been successfully implemented at eAgency, a provider of next-generation
mobile phone application platforms that transform traditional cell phones
into intelligent, practical, utilitarian smartphones. CodeFutures’
solution allows eAgency to break down its large, high-volume database into
smaller pieces and distribute them across a number of servers — resulting
in unprecedented scalability and performance with continuous availability
and operation.

As an enterprise grows, so do its databases, often adversely impacting
performance and reliability. IT departments have been faced with the
constant, costly and time-consuming challenge of implementing shared
resources such as disk arrays, redundant servers and monitoring tools in
order to maintain database functionality for business-critical systems.
This dilemma has driven the need for
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a “shared-nothing” concept that partitions large, high-transaction
databases across numerous commodity servers — empowering enterprises to
achieve new levels of database reliability and scalability at a fraction of
the cost of more traditional solutions. Forward-thinking companies like
eAgency have adopted dbShards Enterprise Edition, the first commercially
available database sharding solution, to do just that.

As eAgency began to undergo tremendous
growth, its MySQL database did not support continuous operations, which is
a critical component to the company’s business strategy. Further, expected
demand would easily outstrip the capacity of a single MySQL database
server. After working with CodeFutures to implement dbShards Enterprise
Edition, eAgency has been able to improve database performance and
scalability — with the confidence of maintaining these benefits as its
revenues and transaction volumes hit an exponential growth curve.

“Providing us with continuous availability and scalability, dbShards
Enterprise Edition enables us to easily keep up with our current data load
and gives us the ability to handle the significant growth in transaction
volume that we expect in the near future,” said Tim Allard, COO, eAgency.
“Not having to worry about whether our database can scale and maintain
performance levels as our business expands, frees up time, money and
resources that can be dedicated to revenue-generating activities.”

CodeFutures’ dbShards Enterprise Edition divides large,
transaction-intensive, relational databases into “shards,” each of which
can be hosted on independent servers with dedicated Central Processing Unit
(CPU), memory and disk resources — resulting in improved scalability and
reliability, continuous operations support and near-linear growth as more
servers are added to the network. Additionally, since each shard is
essentially a small database, enterprises find that they are easier to
manage and significantly faster and cheaper to run. In fact, some
companies have seen a cost reduction of up to 70 percent as compared to
other commercial offerings.

“While the concept of database sharding has been discussed for more than a
decade, the business application market is just now finding the need for
the technology due to the exponential increase in data volumes seen in the
past several years,” said Cory Isaacson, CEO, CodeFutures. “The dbShards
Enterprise Edition solution is completely unique to the market — there is
no other product available that provides cost-effective scalability,
reliability and availability for multi-purpose databases for today’s
fast-growth businesses.”

About CodeFutures Corporation

CodeFutures Corporation is the premier provider of database-performance
tools that dramatically increase scalability and performance. Embracing
the innovative database-sharding methodology, a “shared-nothing”
partitioning scheme, the company’s dbShards solution provides a highly
scalable approach to improving the throughput and overall performance of
high-transaction, database-centric business applications. To learn more
about the Louisville, Colo.-based company and its solutions, visit
.

CodeFutures: Shared Nothing. Shard Everything.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Strategic Partnership with RightScale Brings Benefits of Database Sharding to the Cloud

LOUISVILLE, Colo. – April 20, 2009 – CodeFutures Corporation, empowering enterprises to “share nothing, shard everything,” today announced the launch of dbShards, the first-of-its-kind solution that provides open source databases with the scalability and reliability associated with high-end commercial products at a fraction of the cost. CodeFutures also today announced its strategic partnership with RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, to bring all the benefits and reliability of database sharding to the cloud.

With the tremendous growth in transaction volume and size of open source databases, enterprises have struggled with limited scalability and performance and cumbersome high-availability configurations – challenges that today’s businesses need to resolve to stay financially and competitively viable. Traditionally, IT was forced to implement clustering and shared storage to meet these needs – an extremely costly option with limited effectiveness. Database sharding is a “shared-nothing” partitioning scheme that solves these problems by enabling new levels of scalability and reliability. Simply put, sharding can be compared to a broken glass – breaking down a database into smaller pieces called “shards” and distributing them across a number commodity servers or cloud-based servers. CodeFuture’s dbShards is the first commercially available sharding solution of its kind – empowering enterprises with faster, easier-to-manage and cost-effective open source databases.

“We are basing all our future technology plans on the dbShards solution in a cloud environment,” said Ken Lovett, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), FreeIQ, an online community where streaming video is used to share knowledge and information with others. “CodeFutures allows us to have cost-effective, continuous operation and scalability for our user-generated and transaction-based applications. As FreeIQ continues to grow, so will our databases – but with dbShards, we don’t have to worry that our performance, reliability or scalability won’t be able to keep up.”

CodeFutures’ strategic partnership with RightScale will bring advanced enterprise database capabilities, including “active-active” operation, automated failover, sharding support, scalability and ease of maintenance, to RightScale’s automated cloud management platform without the need to take production databases offline. The dbShards solution allows for unprecedented reliability and near-linear database scalability for mixed-use Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) databases, using a variety of techniques from simple load balancing to advanced database sharding.

“RightScale’s cloud computing management platform and CodeFutures’ dbShards solution offer enterprises an answer for the common challenge of database reliability and scalability,” said Thorsten von Eicken, CTO and founder, RightScale. “By combining cloud computing and database sharding technology, users will have a scalable, cost-effective way to manage and control their database applications on the cloud.”

“It is a constant problem for architects, developers and system administrators to maintain the availability and response times of mission-critical systems as open source databases grow,” said Cory Isaacson, CEO, CodeFutures. “This challenge drives the need for database sharding. Our dbShards solution is not constrained by the typical limitations of more traditional methods like home-grown solutions, high-cost clusters and unreliable master-slave replication, but rather it provides users with a virtually unlimited way to manage scalability and ensure that enterprise databases are highly available.”

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures Corporation is the premier provider of database performance tools that dramatically increase scalability and performance. Embracing the innovative database sharding methodology, a “shared-nothing” partitioning scheme, the company’s dbShards solution provides a highly scalable approach to improving the throughput and overall performance of high-transaction, database-centric business applications. To learn more about the Louisville, Colo.-based company and its solutions, visit http://www.codefutures.com.

CodeFutures Media Contact:

Megan Garnett
Articulate Communications Inc.
212.255.0080, ext. 14
mgarnett@articulatepr.com

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