GigaSpaces Technologies announced the availability of GigaSpaces' eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) for MySQL Enterprise, addressing the scalability and performance needs of demanding MySQL Enterprise customers. Applications running on the combined platform leverage linear scalability, continuous availability, guaranteed persistence and scale-out architecture optimal for cloud and virtualized environments.

The solution introduces GigaSpaces transactional and reliable in-memory data grid as a front-end to the database. Essentially, all updates and queries are handled by the distributed data grid while the database remains in sync. Enterprise-grade requirements are met with a read-write, transactional distributed cache. Complex in-memory data manipulation is easily achieved through Java technologies, .NET and C++ code, or SQL queries.

"Several GigaSpaces customers are already using Sun's MySQL Enterprise with GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP). Among them are leaders in the financial services industry, in online gaming, as well as Web 2.0 customers using GigaSpaces and MySQL on public clouds such as Amazon's EC2," said Amnon Raviv, senior director, Strategic Alliances from GigaSpaces.

GigaSpaces XAP enables predictable application scalability on-demand, allows businesses and developers to predictably scale systems under peak demand, guarantees performance under any data processing load, and seamlessly leverages the economies-of-scale offered by virtual computing environments such as clouds and grids.