Continuent Offers Data Availability, Boosts Open Source Database Scaling

Continuent Offers Data Availability, Boosts Open Source Database Scaling

New uni/cluster Version Provides Much Improved Performance And Ease Of
Deployment In Large-Scale Production Environments

San Jose, Calif. ­ December 11, 2007 ­ Continuent, Inc., the leading
provider of commercial open source middleware solutions for database
high-availability and scalability, today announced new versions of
Continuent uni/cluster for PostgreSQL and Continuent uni/cluster for MySQL®
with enhanced database scaling and ease of deployment in large-scale
production environments. Continuent uni/cluster is a suite of middleware
software that delivers high-availability and scalability clustering for
virtually any mission critical database application

The key enhancements of release 2007.1 are:

- Enhanced processing to handle queries that return tens of millions of rows
- Certified operation of virtual databases containing up to 10,000 tables
- Parallel start of virtual databases to rapidly bring up large database
servers containing multiple databases
- Log mechanisms permitting efficient storage and replay of large numbers of
updates during recovery.

These features allow Continuent uni/cluster to reach the next level of
scalability in demanding production environments.

³Release 2007.1 has a number of important usability features such as easier
configuration file layout, documentation improvements, and improved
installation with error checking. For MySQL, we have added support for
stored functions that contain writes. For PostgreSQL, we introduced support
for PostGIS functions,² said Eero Teerikorpi, CEO at Continuent.

Continuent uni/cluster for PostgreSQL and Continuent uni/cluster for MySQL
release 2007.1 are now available with pricing starting at
$195/month/database CPU. For more information about Continuent products,
visit http://www.continuent.com. For information on Continuent's
involvement in the open source community, visit http://www.continuent.org.

About Continuent

Continuent provides continuous data availability. Continuent develops and
markets commercial Continuent uni/cluster products and services based on
Sequoia, a database-neutral, open source database-clustering project
(www.continuent.org) Continuent¹s commercial open source solutions are
currently available for EnterpriseDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL. Continuent¹s
Sequoia open source solutions are available for Microsoft® SQL Server,
Oracle®, IBM® DB2®, and Sybase®. Continuent is headquartered in San Jose,
CA, with research labs in Finland and France. For more information, please
visit www.continuent.com.

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