MySQL Enables Tellme to Reduce Costs & Maintain High Availability

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Mobile Search Leader Chooses Open Source Database to Power Massive Data Cluster

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- December 5, 2006 -- MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, today announced that Tellme Networks, Inc ® is benefiting from significantly reduced database-related costs by using the open source MySQL® database. Tellme employs MySQL to power mission-critical enterprise and carrier applications on the world’s largest open platform for the phone.

"The MySQL server is a core technology in our distributed data cluster that handles over two terabytes of data per week," said Rick Levenson, senior vice president of Service Delivery at Tellme. “By using MySQL, we have been able to reduce our costs while maintaining high availability across our client applications."

Tellme powers voice-based phone searches used by more than 35 million people every month. It is the most popular mobile search service today. Like many fast-growing ‘Web 2.0’ Internet businesses, Tellme's data load has scaled with the rapid growth in its traffic -- from 500 million calls in 2004, to nearly 2 billion calls in 2006.

MySQL: High Availability for Tellme Data Cluster

Tellme uses MySQL in three distinct ways. First, the company relies on MySQL as a core technology in its distributed data cluster. In addition to handling more than 2.25 terabytes per week, this system processes logging data, performance tuning data, recognition statistics and billing.

Tellme's second use of MySQL is as a fast, highly available data store for applications. This system is geographically redundant and can provide personalization data in milliseconds. Tellme also uses MySQL as a general data warehouse to reduce costs for several of its innovative business efforts. The company runs MySQL on a heterogeneous network of hardware.

"Tellme is an excellent example of a fast-growing company that has cost-effectively increased the capacity of their infrastructure by scaling out on MySQL and low-cost hardware," said Mark Burton, MySQL AB's executive vice president of Worldwide Sales. "As Tellme attests, this approach can result in a powerful, high performance system for a fraction of the cost of proprietary alternatives."

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MySQL is the world's most popular open source database software, with over 10 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, The Associated Press, Suzuki and NASA.

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. For more information about MySQL, please visit www.mysql.com.

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