Schooner information technology, which make the line virtual machine equipment goose performance of MySQL database and Memcached to cache web program using CPU threads, Cores and solid state disks in modern x 86-based servers, has tweaked the MySQL tools to provide better disaster recovery.
The schooner came out of stealth back in April 2009 with a set of hardware tools based on IBM System x servers equipped with Intel flash storage, which provides about six to eight factro performance increase more servers running a version of off-the-shelf MySQL and Memcached (and not using flash storage).
But the hardware is almost irrelevant. What's key is a set of software was originally called Data, API and the operating environment is now called the Schooner, which creates a very efficient thread-aware and userspace for blackbox Schooner himself, reverse engineering, Memecached clones or Oracle's MySQL Enterprise Edition database (which has a license from Oracle) on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and 5.5.
In February this year, the Schooner throw hard IBM and packaged both this product as a virtual machine equipment, because the flash memory is now public and customers want to use their servers, not one box being sold by IBM. They are now called SchoonerSQL and Membrain.
In April this year, the Schooner is enhanced version of the MySQL database (which includes a modified version of the InnoDB database engine Oracle also controls) with a feature called Active Cluster, which offers synchronous replication in a clustered MySQL nodes. Like Jerry Rudisin, CEO, Schooner's El Reg back in the spring, it's better than asynchronous replication kludgey, which has a production database support up to a master and slave nodes and then distribute the change, which is part of Oracle's MySQL stack. Oracle also sells MySQL Cluster, which performs synchronous replication, but the feature does not work with InnoDB engine, which is popular among MySQL stores.