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I want this to work, and be real, but I'm skeptical. I don't know how to change that.
Try it. You'll like it :)
Worked for an employer who used it. FAAANTASTIC. I met with the entire Executive team out in SFO on Friday, great company. I have never seen anyone take such care in doing massive QA (including month+ long regression testing on every generations of their platform)
Does anyone here have direct customer experience with Clustrix? If so, I would be very interested in hearing honest customer feedback.
Their bet was contrarian: embracing SQL -- specifically MySQL wire & dialect compatibility -- at a time when the open source options were trending toward NoSQL.
For funded start-ups with a calculable data-to-revenue ratio, Clustrix buys you the option for arbitrary future expansion while retaining the functional benefits of the RDBMS stack.
Once your product succeeds to a level where daily operational reporting is necessary, you'll appreciate the ubiquity of SQL: analysts and off-the-shelf tools all speak SQL without the overhead of glue code, data staging, or ETL.
So, there's Amazon Redshift (which is cloud-postgres) https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/ and now there's Clustrix (which is cloud-mysql)
In case you were saying Redshift is literally PostgreSQL, it appears it's actually ParAccel: http://www.informationweek.com/software/information-manageme...
Development of parallel query execution in PostgreSQL proper has been stagnant for quite a while unfortunately: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Parallel_Query_Execution
Does anyone here have direct customer experience with Clustrix? If so, I would be very interested in hearing honest customer feedback.
I can also say that I've been participating in the private beta of this AWS version for a week now and it is both stable and performant. Although we use their appliance in production, I'm very excited about this AWS version as it allows us to run clustrix in our testing and staging environments (where we previously had to run mysql).
I think it's a really great thing that more people/companies will be able to use their awesome database without having to purchase an appliance.
About CAP theorem - which line is Clustrix for?
Excuse me for, maybe, stupid question, but: we have few (250+) InnoDB tables and triggers - if we will try to move all data to Clustrix, will our application continue to work? I've read about "drop-in replacement" but maybe somebody here already have experience in same issue.
You can get a list of unsupported features and differences from our docs:
http://docs.clustrix.com/display/CLXDOC/Unsupported+Features
http://docs.clustrix.com/display/CLXDOC/Feature+Differences
Having said that, our customers find that the value that they get out of scale out, fault tolerance, and performance is worth the tradeoffs of not supporting every single MySQL feature.
Honestly, our goal is not to be 100% MySQL compatible. We're aiming to be compatible enough to capture a significant share of existing MySQL installs, but we're really after building a truly scalable relational db.
DBaaS - but what about latency between apps and db servers? If we use own cluster, servers can be placed in local network, but how it's possible with DBaaS model? About CAP theorem - which line is Clustrix for?
Excuse me for, maybe, stupid question, but: we have few (250+) InnoDB tables and triggers - if we will try to move all data to Clustrix, will our application continue to work? I've read about "drop-in replacement" but maybe somebody here already have experience in same issue.
It's a good question. We built the entire database from the ground up, without any MySQL code. So while we support most of the frequently used features, we don't support everything. You can get a list of unsupported features and differences from our docs: http://docs.clustrix.com/display/CLXDOC/Unsupported+Features http://docs.clustrix.com/display/CLXDOC/Feature+Differences Having said that, our customers find that t…
Why it's not in the features list? I thinks it's very cool.
We are a live event streaming company that expects several million viewers per event so something scalable/highly-available is what we're looking for.
fingers crossed for that 'invite'.