MySQL Cluster Carrier-Grade Edition Scales to 100,000 Transactions per Minute in DBT2 Benchmark

2007 MySQL Conference & Expo, Santa Clara, Calif. — April 26, 2007 — MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, today announced the results of recent DBT2 benchmarks of its MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition database. The announcement was made this morning at the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo. Tests were conducted in collaboration with Intel Corporation and Dolphin Interconnect Solutions.

The benchmark results show the very high scalability of MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition, attaining a rate of 100,000 transactions per minute (TpM) using an 8-node cluster. In this benchmark, the latest generation of the Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor family provided a significant step forward in scalability, showing a 75-percent speed improvement over tests run on previous generation Intel Xeon processor systems.

Read the full announcement on MySQL.com.