MySQL Success Stories

Here are some success stories from users of MySQL software. Have a story of your own? Share it with us?

Sanger Institute Uses MySQL for Critical Genome Research

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute focuses on large-scale sequencing and analysis of human, animal and bacterial genomes. As a major player in the Human Genome Project (HGP), the Sanger Institute sequenced approximately one third of the 3200 million “letters” of the human genome.

Matanuska Telephone Association Relies on MySQL for its Most Critical Data

MySQL Database Tracks 20 Million Members of The FriendFinder Network, Saves $2 Million

FriendFinder Network, the leading global online relationship network, connects members for friendship, dates and, just possibly, a future partner. FriendFinder boasts more than 20 million registered members in 16 different communities. In addition to the main FriendFinder community, the corporation hosts sites for seniors, gays, Christians, Jews, and a variety of other target groups. To track its millions of users and manage its business, FriendFinder relies on MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database, to handle massive amounts of data.

MySQL and "LAMP" Save istockphoto.com $900K

MySQL Cuts Database Costs by More than $400,000 for Matanuska Telephone Association

MySQL Enables Litigation Solutions to Grow as a Company

MySQL Helps EraGen Biosciences Deliver Powerful Analytic Tools for Genome Research

MySQL's High Availability Works for Red One Aviation

Red One Aviation is a St. Louis, Missouri, based company, providing flight information and aviation related data, to airports, pilots, corporate flight departments and other aviation companies. Red One must manage both real-time and historical data, pertaining to almost every flight in North America. This can mean processing approximately 70,000 flights in a 24-hour period, which at peak times relates to more than one take-off and landing every second!

Pason Systems Strikes Oil

Pason Systems Inc. is an industrial technology company based in Calgary Canada. It provides the design, manufacturing and rental of specialized drilling instrumentation systems for use on about 1,000 land-based commercial oil-drilling rigs in Canada and the U.S. Pason's products and services include data acquisition, well site reporting software, remote communications and Internet information management tools.

Cox Communications Powers Massive Data Warehouse with MySQL

Cox Communications is the fourth largest cable-television provider in the United States, serving approximately 6.3 million customers. A Fortune 500 company, Cox has built communications networks and delivered quality cable television programs since 1962. It is now a full-service provider of telecommunications products, including an array of multi-service broadband communications solutions. To maintain optimum performance and customer-service levels, Cox has developed a huge data warehousing application. At the heart of this business-critical system is a 2-billion row MySQL database.

The AP Relies on MySQL for Transaction-Heavy News Delivery System

The Associated Press (AP), the world's oldest and largest news agency with a global daily reach of 1 billion people, is leveraging the MySQL® database to power its AP Hosted News service. The AP's mission critical MySQL-based application serves up a massive amount of AP hosted content and supports hundreds of thousands of transactions every day for 11,000 concurrent users.

Westone Amplifies Database Performance with MySQL

Westone Laboratories is a leading global manufacturer of custom-made products for the ear, and the company relies on the MySQL database server to power an increasing number of its most critical data management applications.

State of Rhode Island Saves Development Time and Costs with MySQL and Open Source

The Rhode Island Department of State waited more than five years to receive the legislature's approval to require state agencies to file all rules and regulations electronically. Now, a MySQL database is the backbone of the new site, and it was completed under-budget and ahead of schedule.

Texas Instruments Manages Large Regression Testing Application with MySQL

MySQL Measures Success for Cross Media

Powell's Books - The Largest Independent Online BookSeller Depends on MySQL

Nemo-Q Speeds Up Queues with MySQL

Virage Embeds MySQL in New, Rich-Media Learning Solution

Blue World Communications Integrates MySQL into High-Powered Web Development Engine

Omaha Steaks Chooses MySQL for Speed and Reliability

MySQL Matters to Slashdot

MySQL Handles Heavy Load in SS8 Network's LNP Solution

Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. Uses MySQL to Power Self-Service Intranet

U.S. Census Bureau Reaps Awards from MySQL-based Web Sites

MySQL Database at the Core of E-commerce Software by CoreSense

MySQL Keeps mobile.de in the Fast Lane

Ericsson Telebit

Department of Academic Information Systems

Leading Japanese Brokerage Firm Chooses MySQL for Mission-Critical System

MySQL Powers Yahoo! Finance

NASA

handy.de - Germany's mobile portal #1

Avacom Net Services