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The Twelve Days of Scale-Out: Skyblog -- France's Second-Largest Web site -- Uses MySQL to Power its
- Ecrit par Damien Seguy
- vendredi 22 juin 2007
PARIS -- June 21, 2007 -- MySQL AB today announced that all the
database applications behind the Skyrock and Skyblog Web sites --
Europe’s largest blogging platform -- are based on MySQL. The European
leader plans on future international expansion, relying on the world’s
most popular open source database.
According to Alexa Web Rankings, only Google.fr is more popular than Skyblog in France.
MySQL powers the entire Skyrock network, which includes Skyblog, Skyrock, Skymobile, Skyrock Messager, Tasante, Ladiz, Tropmalin, and Bonbiz. This represents a volume of over one terabyte of data. More than ten million blogs have already been created on the Skyblog platform, and the MySQL database servers handle 11,000 queries per second.
MySQL 5.0 covers all Skyrock’s database requirements for high availability and performance, including internal IT applications. An early adoptor of MySQL, Skyrock continues to develop its infrastructure to keep pace with the rapidly increasing number of blogs, addition of new web services and the growing volume of data. Skyrock has implemented the popular ‘Scale-Out’ architecture, which allows them to grow their infrastructure by adding MySQL databases on lower-cost commodity hardware. Currently, 20 replicated MySQL servers contain 100 GB of data each.
Scale-Out is a modern computing architecture that enables organizations to improve application performance and scalability on an incremental, as-needed basis by adding multiple replicated database servers on low-cost commodity hardware.
According to Jérôme Aguesse, Web Production Director at Skyrock, “MySQL is the best database for us. It is cost-effective, fast, robust, reliable, and requires very little administration. It’s an extremely flexible and scalable product. Its replication features confer high scalability to our applications.”
Skyrock continues to grow and is planning to launch a worldwide blogging platform in the near future, which will be based on MySQL. Jérôme Aguesse continues “We’ve always received excellent advice from the expert consultants of MySQL France. In addition, the new generation of Web developers grew up on MySQL, which is another great benefit of relying on MySQL.”
Bertrand Matthelié, MySQL’s Director of Marketing for EMEA states, “MySQL and the modern Scale-Out architecture allows fast-growing companies to cost-effectively develop their infrastructure, according to their needs, and to benefit from superior performance, scalability and reliability. We are delighted that the leading European blogging platform is relying on MySQL to power its phenomenal growth.”
About Skyrock
Skyrock is the #1 radio station in France for under 25 year olds with over 4 million listeners tuning in each day. Skyrock Network, the publisher of Skyrock.com and Skyblog.com, is the leading European social network for under 25 year olds with over 9.1 million active Skyblogs. With 5.2 billion pages viewed in April 2007, Skyrock Network affirms its positions as the #2 Internet group in France, and #19 in the world.
Skyrock is directed by its founder Pierre Bellanger, in association with Group Axa Private Equity.
About MySQL
MySQL AB develops and supports a family of high-performance, affordable database products. The company’s flagship offering is 'MySQL Enterprise’, a comprehensive set of production-tested software, proactive monitoring tools, and premium support services.
MySQL is the world's most popular open source database software, with over 11 million active installations. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software -- including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Google, Nokia and YouTube.
With headquarters in the United States and Sweden -- and operations around the world -- MySQL AB supports both open source values and corporate customers' needs in a profitable, sustainable business model. For more information about MySQL, please visit www.mysql.com.
MySQL is a registered trademark of MySQL AB in the USA and other countries. Other products or company names mentioned may be the trademarks of their respective companies.
According to Alexa Web Rankings, only Google.fr is more popular than Skyblog in France.
MySQL powers the entire Skyrock network, which includes Skyblog, Skyrock, Skymobile, Skyrock Messager, Tasante, Ladiz, Tropmalin, and Bonbiz. This represents a volume of over one terabyte of data. More than ten million blogs have already been created on the Skyblog platform, and the MySQL database servers handle 11,000 queries per second.
MySQL 5.0 covers all Skyrock’s database requirements for high availability and performance, including internal IT applications. An early adoptor of MySQL, Skyrock continues to develop its infrastructure to keep pace with the rapidly increasing number of blogs, addition of new web services and the growing volume of data. Skyrock has implemented the popular ‘Scale-Out’ architecture, which allows them to grow their infrastructure by adding MySQL databases on lower-cost commodity hardware. Currently, 20 replicated MySQL servers contain 100 GB of data each.
Scale-Out is a modern computing architecture that enables organizations to improve application performance and scalability on an incremental, as-needed basis by adding multiple replicated database servers on low-cost commodity hardware.
According to Jérôme Aguesse, Web Production Director at Skyrock, “MySQL is the best database for us. It is cost-effective, fast, robust, reliable, and requires very little administration. It’s an extremely flexible and scalable product. Its replication features confer high scalability to our applications.”
Skyrock continues to grow and is planning to launch a worldwide blogging platform in the near future, which will be based on MySQL. Jérôme Aguesse continues “We’ve always received excellent advice from the expert consultants of MySQL France. In addition, the new generation of Web developers grew up on MySQL, which is another great benefit of relying on MySQL.”
Bertrand Matthelié, MySQL’s Director of Marketing for EMEA states, “MySQL and the modern Scale-Out architecture allows fast-growing companies to cost-effectively develop their infrastructure, according to their needs, and to benefit from superior performance, scalability and reliability. We are delighted that the leading European blogging platform is relying on MySQL to power its phenomenal growth.”
About Skyrock
Skyrock is the #1 radio station in France for under 25 year olds with over 4 million listeners tuning in each day. Skyrock Network, the publisher of Skyrock.com and Skyblog.com, is the leading European social network for under 25 year olds with over 9.1 million active Skyblogs. With 5.2 billion pages viewed in April 2007, Skyrock Network affirms its positions as the #2 Internet group in France, and #19 in the world.
Skyrock is directed by its founder Pierre Bellanger, in association with Group Axa Private Equity.
About MySQL
MySQL AB develops and supports a family of high-performance, affordable database products. The company’s flagship offering is 'MySQL Enterprise’, a comprehensive set of production-tested software, proactive monitoring tools, and premium support services.
MySQL is the world's most popular open source database software, with over 11 million active installations. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software -- including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Google, Nokia and YouTube.
With headquarters in the United States and Sweden -- and operations around the world -- MySQL AB supports both open source values and corporate customers' needs in a profitable, sustainable business model. For more information about MySQL, please visit www.mysql.com.
MySQL is a registered trademark of MySQL AB in the USA and other countries. Other products or company names mentioned may be the trademarks of their respective companies.
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