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Continuent launches Tungsten project for database scale-out
Matthew Aslett, August 29, 2008 @ 8:19 am ETContinuent is probably best known for its database clustering technology for MySQL, as well as PostgreSQL, but the company has for some time had its sights set on expanding beyond open source databases and enabling horizontal database scalability.
It has just taken a major step towards delivering on both counts with the launch of Tungsten, its new stack of open source middleware technologies designed to enable low-cost databases to scale horizontally for database failover and continuity.
Tungsten includes includes Sequoia, the existing synchronous multi-master replication project, as well as Tungsten Replicator for asynchronous master/slave replication, Tungsten Manager for cluster-aware service management over LAN or WAN, Tungsten Connector (previously known as Myosotis) for native wire protocol proxying, Bristlecone for scale-out performance testing and Hedera for group communications.
Tungsten brings Continuent technology to Oracle environments for the first time, although as CTO Robert Hodges notes on his blog, a more significant immediate target will be addressing some of the previously mentioned MySQL replication issues presented by Monty Widenius last April.
The Tungsten stack is designed to let users mix and match the components to fit their specific replication requirements, and Continuent will be doing that itself as it delivers commercial products based on the open source code and commercial extensions next year.
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