Time really flies. A bit less than 4 months ago, I wrote a post about my decision to join ScaleDB. Today, after 4 months and a lot of excitement working with a great team and genuinely good people, I am proud to announce that the first version of ScaleDB is available to the public.
To scale comes from the Latin word scandere, i.e. 'to climb’. Mount Ararat is one of the most beautiful peaks in the whole world, yet hard to climb and full of significance and mystery for many. It looked natural for us to start our journey naming the product after this mountain.
ScaleDB 15.10 is the first public version of our product. So far, we’ve been using a private beta and we have been working with users, developers and DBAs to make the product available to the public for a more general use.
We have customers and community users who use ScaleDB in production- in the last year we have worked hard to fix all the S1 bugs known to us, but as with any software, we cannot guarantee that the quality of the product will be top notch right from its first public version, therefore we strongly recommend you thoroughly test ScaleDB 15.10 before deploying it in a production environment.
The software is available for download from our website as a tarball, and we are going to provide Red Hat and Ubuntu packages very soon. You can click here, fill in a quick form and receive information on how to download and use ScaleDB within minutes. We will setup an account for you, in which you will also find updates, patches and new releases.
The main objective of ScaleDB 15.10 is to provide a Big Data solution with MySQL, currently in the form of streaming data and realtime analytics (see some extra info here). From the perspective of a MySQL user, ScaleDB is a standard storage engine that can be plugged into MariaDB. Behind the scenes, we make extensive use of special handlers in MariaDB 10.1 that extend the condition pushdown to the storage engine (although in the very first version of 15.10 we still recommend MariaDB 10.0) and to a cluster of machines. We also call the ScaleDB Cluster IDC, Intelligent Data Cluster.ScaleDB can handle millions of inserts per second loaded by parallel workers, whilst hundreds of concurrent users can analyse the very same data in realtime. We ran some basic tests and one of them is published here: it can give you an idea of the type of analysis and scalability you may expect from ScaleDB.We use a different and innovative approach to storing, indexing and accessing the data. The best fit for ScaleDB is time series data, which probably represent a significant part of the data currently qualified as Big Data. That said, ScaleDB can also be used to store and analyse not only time series, but any kind of data, although we are not currently focused on rich data such as documents and multimedia.
ScaleDB ONE stands for One Node Edition. It is a single node version of the product. DBAs can install and use the product on a single node. Performance is great for many use cases, and ScaleDB ONE can already sustain hundreds of thousands of inserts per second and real time analysis on a single node. ScaleDB ONE is completely free, and support can be purchased on request.
ScaleDB Cluster is the fully loaded version of ScaleDB that can scale up to many Terabytes of data and hundreds of concurrent users. ScaleDB Cluster is available as a commercial license with technical support that can be purchased from ScaleDB Inc.
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ScaleDB 15.10 Ararat
We decided to number this version 15.10 and to name it Ararat. Indeed, we intend to follow the release cycle of other famous software projects, such as Ubuntu, OpenStack and recently CentOS. Our logo is a peak, we are all about scaling, as in our name and as the main objective of our products.To scale comes from the Latin word scandere, i.e. 'to climb’. Mount Ararat is one of the most beautiful peaks in the whole world, yet hard to climb and full of significance and mystery for many. It looked natural for us to start our journey naming the product after this mountain.
ScaleDB 15.10 is the first public version of our product. So far, we’ve been using a private beta and we have been working with users, developers and DBAs to make the product available to the public for a more general use.
We have customers and community users who use ScaleDB in production- in the last year we have worked hard to fix all the S1 bugs known to us, but as with any software, we cannot guarantee that the quality of the product will be top notch right from its first public version, therefore we strongly recommend you thoroughly test ScaleDB 15.10 before deploying it in a production environment.
The software is available for download from our website as a tarball, and we are going to provide Red Hat and Ubuntu packages very soon. You can click here, fill in a quick form and receive information on how to download and use ScaleDB within minutes. We will setup an account for you, in which you will also find updates, patches and new releases.
Streaming data, time series and realtime analytics
The main objective of ScaleDB 15.10 is to provide a Big Data solution with MySQL, currently in the form of streaming data and realtime analytics (see some extra info here). From the perspective of a MySQL user, ScaleDB is a standard storage engine that can be plugged into MariaDB. Behind the scenes, we make extensive use of special handlers in MariaDB 10.1 that extend the condition pushdown to the storage engine (although in the very first version of 15.10 we still recommend MariaDB 10.0) and to a cluster of machines. We also call the ScaleDB Cluster IDC, Intelligent Data Cluster.ScaleDB can handle millions of inserts per second loaded by parallel workers, whilst hundreds of concurrent users can analyse the very same data in realtime. We ran some basic tests and one of them is published here: it can give you an idea of the type of analysis and scalability you may expect from ScaleDB.We use a different and innovative approach to storing, indexing and accessing the data. The best fit for ScaleDB is time series data, which probably represent a significant part of the data currently qualified as Big Data. That said, ScaleDB can also be used to store and analyse not only time series, but any kind of data, although we are not currently focused on rich data such as documents and multimedia.
ScaleDB ONE and ScaleDB Cluster
ScaleDB 15.10 comes in two flavours, ScaleDB ONE and ScaleDB Cluster.ScaleDB ONE stands for One Node Edition. It is a single node version of the product. DBAs can install and use the product on a single node. Performance is great for many use cases, and ScaleDB ONE can already sustain hundreds of thousands of inserts per second and real time analysis on a single node. ScaleDB ONE is completely free, and support can be purchased on request.
ScaleDB Cluster is the fully loaded version of ScaleDB that can scale up to many Terabytes of data and hundreds of concurrent users. ScaleDB Cluster is available as a commercial license with technical support that can be purchased from ScaleDB Inc.
What’s next?
Well, this is just the start. We will talk more about ScaleDB in future posts, from its internal structures, to advanced indexing, scalability, roadmap and much more! As they often tell me as a frequent flyer: sit back, relax, and enjoy the journey with ScaleDB.PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN