Hyperic Announces MySQL Performance Study Results

First Enterprise Application to Prove MySQL Supports Immense Scale

JAVAONE — San Francisco, Calif.— May 7, 2008 – Hyperic Inc., (JavaOne Booth #1028) a leading open source web infrastructure management software provider, today announced the results of a large scale performance study on Hyperic HQ using Sun Microsystems’ MySQL database as a backend. The outcome exceeded expectations, with Hyperic HQ able to monitor upwards of 2.3 million metric transactions per minute using MySQL as its backend database. Such results definitively prove that MySQL and Hyperic can be a compelling option for even the most demanding enterprise and web applications.

In the last year, Hyperic has seen increased demand from web companies looking to pair Hyperic HQ with MySQL as the database backend to its monitoring and management software. Hyperic introduced formal support for the popular open source database in January of this year. As one of the first commercial, data-intensive enterprise applications to add support for MySQL, Hyperic engaged in large-scale beta testing with customers such as CNET during the release process.

“For growing web-driven companies, scaling their web applications is critical to their business,” said Paul Melmon, senior vice president of engineering at Hyperic. “Traffic is unpredictable and can grow exponentially. Operations teams must not only monitor every component of their application stack, but quickly respond if things go wrong. These performance results prove that the combination of Hyperic and MySQL is a good fit for companies that need a massively scalable web infrastructure.”

The tests simulated a large-scale deployment monitoring 32,000 services across 675 discreet managed platforms. There were two primary tests—designed to determine the actual and maximum loads amount of metrics per minute that Hyperic is capable of running on MySQL:

In the Actual Load test, Hyperic HQ averaged 220,000 metrics per minute, with minimal server load for either Hyperic HQ or MySQL
In the Maximum Load test, Hyperic HQ achieved a peak collection of 2.3 million metrics per minute, with constraints on the Hyperic Server and only moderate load on MySQL

“MySQL has been designed and optimized to handle the fast-growth and high-traffic requirements of today’s modern online applications,” said Zack Urlocker, vice president of products, Sun Microsystems Database Group. “As Hyperic is also targeting this same Web audience, there is a natural synergy between our products. MySQL and Hyperic address enterprise-level needs for performance, scalability, availability and reliability.”

For the complete report, visit the full MySQL Performance Study.

About Hyperic Inc.

Hyperic provides open source system monitoring and management software that reduces the workload for operations teams at the world’s biggest web companies, including Microsoft, CNET Networks, hi5 Networks, Contegix, Rackspace’s Mosso, and more.

Its award-winning Hyperic HQ software auto-discovers and updates asset inventory and allows operations teams to perform cross-platform monitoring, diagnostics and control from a remote, web-based console, helping them more quickly pinpoint, correct, and prevent problems at every major layer—including hardware, networks, virtualization and applications.

Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hyperic is a private company funded by Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital.

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