The MySQL database is a flexible and powerful database used widely for business critical applications – applications that can’t afford to have I/O performance and scalability limitations. Traditional disk-based solutions are often not up to the task. Violin flash Memory Arrays have the scalability to store entire databases in memory ensuring the lowest latency access to data. Log files, index files, tempbb – everything receives a performance boost. Benefits include:

• Faster transaction and query performance
• Higher CPU utilization
• Reduced power, cooling and space costs by 50-80%
• Fewer DB licenses required

Violin Memory Arrays can support up to 40TB of enterprise flash in a single 3U enclosure. This is a high performance/density resource that can scale to petabytes of shared capacity by adding additional arrays.

Storage systems built from Solid State Disk (SSD) or hybrid SSD/HDD configurations can’t match the density, latency and performance since they are not configured or optimized to manage a large pool of flash; they are a solid state device that looks and acts like a disk (protocols and all). PCIe SSD cards are helpful to speed up an individual server but are limited in capacity and have no ability to be shared.

Violin Memory Arrays are designed for maximum density, spike free low latency, and performance. They can be shared via a network by many clients. They can easily scale to store entire databases in memory, not just portions of an active data set. Learn more.