14 DAY TRIAL // MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular Open Source database, recently announced that it has strengthened its partnership with Red Hat, Inc., provider of Open Source solutions to the enterprise.
In keynotes at the MySQL User Conference, senior executives from the two companies pledged to work together to provide their common customers with better products and services for implementing high-demand database applications using an increasingly popular, more affordable and effective IT architecture called "Scale-out".
Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB, said, "Compared to traditional 'Scale-Up' methods using expensive hardware and proprietary software, the Open Source LAMP stack is well-suited for driving high-volume websites, Data Warehouses and other business applications - leveraging low-cost, commodity hardware." Mickos cited Google Inc. as an example of a company that built its IT infrastructure around scaling out, instead of up.
Michael Tiemann, vice president of open source affairs at Red Hat, maintained that the partnership is a logical step as the vendors already share many customers.
MySQL and Red Hat plan to test the MySQL database with Red Hat's Cluster Suite and Global File System (GFS). Red Hat GFS allows a cluster of MySQL servers to simultaneously read and write data to a single shared file system on a SAN, achieving high performance and reducing the complexity and overhead of managing redundant data copies. With Red Hat Cluster Suite and GFS, MySQL customers can get a highly available clustered database solution based on all open source technologies.