Schooner information technology, which makes the virtual machine equipment goose performance of MySQL database and Memcached to cache web programming using threads, CPU 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 a performance boost of about six to eight top factro servers running versions 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 the Data API and the operating environment is now called the Schooner, which creates a very efficient thread-aware and userspace blackbox Schooner himself, reverse engineering, Memecached clone or Oracle's MySQL Enterprise Edition database (which has a license from Oracle) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and 5.5.
In February this year, the Schooner dispose of IBM hardware 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 was upgraded versions 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 told El Reg back in the spring, it's better than asynchronous replication kludgey, which has a production support to a master database and then deploy the slave nodes, the changes are 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.