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
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
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CodeFutures: Shared Nothing. Shard Everything.
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