Clustrix Claims New Cloud Economics for Big Data Apps
July 25, 2012
Clustrix, the scale-out SQL database for Big Data apps, has new high-performance widgetry that’s supposed to deliver new cloud economics while addressing the real-time needs of customers building applications at the intersection of Big Data, the cloud and agile development.
The start-up has released a high-performance SQL DataBase-as-a-Service (DBaaS) that extends the database’s scalability, performance and availability to the cloud. It comes with simple, transparent pricing with no meters or limits on transactions, data size or number of users.
CEO Robin Purohit says, "By offering our high-performance scale-out SQL database both as a service and a private cloud appliance, Clustrix is bringing radical simplicity to the Big Data database market wherever the customer wants to run their application. We overcome limitations of legacy database architectures and new in-memory databases that create pricing and TCO surprises as applications scale. In this way, Clustrix enables application developers to innovate using the power of SQL and exploit the new cloud economics, both in development and production."…
The company acknowledges that public cloud platforms are compelling development environments, but contends that as applications scale in production, they have been plagued by unpredictable costs and undesirable complexity. Its Clustrix DBaaS is supposed to address these issues by providing:
- Lower, predictable pricing. It says a 1TB fault-tolerant configuration costs 30% less than a similar Amazon RDS AWS implementation.
- Real-time access for applications with high transaction throughput for both simple and complex queries.
- Real-time recovery from failures, providing fault tolerance and high availability with no operator intervention.
- Real-time application innovation with familiar SQL or key-value programming models and rapid insight into database performance optimization.
Besides its pricing, Clustrix says its high-performance SQL DBaaS breaks new ground in other ways:
- It’s the first scale-out SQL DBaaS using Flash Storage (SSD) so it can offer terabytes of capacity with fast read and write performance
- It’s the only self-healing SQL DBaaS with a true distributed architecture avoiding the downtime, complexity and cost of master/slave approaches.
- It’s got database administration (DBA) on-demand, provided by a support staff that works with customers to optimize database performance, a service that’s included with the DBaaS price.
The start-up also announced Clustrix 4.0, called a significant upgrade to its high-performance transactional SQL database. Version 4.0 is supposed to offer some industry-first innovations:
- A DevOps management console with comprehensive system and query performance insight.
- Big Data backup that provides constant, extremely fast parallel backup and restore, regardless of database size.
- Native support for JSON documents, enabling agile, schema-less development without sacrificing transactions or consistency.
"Clustrix Version 4.0 reveals the smarts under the hood of our database," CTO Sergei Tsarev says. "Because it’s both application- and system-aware, version 4.0 lets developers and system administrators view application and database interactions, as well as overall system health and performance, with a new level of clarity. As a result, they will spend less time troubleshooting the database and more time optimizing applications to propel their businesses forward."
See http://www.clustrix.com/pricing/, http://youtu.be/rBJ9GluIhF8 and http://youtu.be/F5ZK8aVv75w.