MySQL Enterprise Edition

Product Guide

A MySQL® White Paper

September, 2013

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 Table of Contents
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................3,
MySQL,Enterprise,Edition........................................................................................................................3,
MySQL,Database .....................................................................................................................................4,
MySQL,Enterprise,Audit ..........................................................................................................................6,
MySQL,Enterprise,Security ......................................................................................................................7,
MySQL,Enterprise,Scalability...................................................................................................................9,
MySQL,Enterprise,High,Availability .......................................................................................................12,
MySQL,Enterprise,Backup .....................................................................................................................17,
MySQL,Enterprise,Monitor....................................................................................................................18,
MySQL,Workbench,Enterprise,Edition ..................................................................................................21,
Oracle,Product,Certifications/Integrations ...........................................................................................24,
Oracle,Premier,Support.........................................................................................................................25,
Conclusion .............................................................................................................................................25,
Additional,Resources.............................................................................................................................26,
Appendix,A:,MySQL,Customers.............................................................................................................27,
Appendix,B:,Zappos,Case,Study ............................................................................................................28,
Appendix,C:,Booking.com,Case,Study ...................................................................................................29,
Appendix,D:,Adobe,Case,Study .............................................................................................................30,
Appendix,E:,Zimbra,Case,Study.............................................................................................................31,

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1 Introduction

Whether you are building high volume websites, enterprise and departmental
applications, or advanced communications networks, your organization needs the tools
to build and manage these business-critical database applications. This paper explores
how you can confidently deploy MySQL, on-premise and in the Cloud, as part of a cost-
effective cross-platform solution for delivering high-performing, highly available, reliable
and scalable applications. It examines some of the challenges associated with building
and supporting scalable, data-driven applications using open source technologies and
provides a detailed overview of how MySQL Enterprise Edition can address these
challenges. MySQL Enterprise Edition, combines the most secure, scalable, “always on”
version of the MySQL database with online backup, monitoring, management and visual
database design and SQL development tools, all backed by Oracle Premier Support,
24x7 global enterprise-class support services. Further, MySQL Enterprise Edition
supports your use of MySQL in conjunction with many of the Oracle products and tools
you may already be familiar with or are currently using. MySQL Enterprise Edition is
specifically designed to help you bring secure, high performing and scalable MySQL
applications to market faster, mitigate risk, and ensure you meet customer and end-user
Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

2 MySQL Enterprise Edition

MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. Whether you are a fast
growing web property, software vendor, or large enterprise, MySQL can cost-effectively
help you deliver high performance, scalable database applications. If you are currently
using MySQL, you probably started with the MySQL Community Edition. In fact, in
many instances MySQL enters an organization via an application development project
and makes its way into the data center when the application is promoted for production
use. It often makes its way into shipping products in a similar fashion. Challenges arise
when these applications become vital to business revenues or key business functions.
The most common challenges around running MySQL and other open source
technologies are revealed by a simple line of questioning:

• How will you ensure you are using the most reliable, secure, scalable, up-to-date
version?
• How will you know:
o If a server or applications is down?
o If there is a replication master/slave synchronization or latency issue?
o If something else is affecting the performance of a server?
• Will you know:
o If MySQL is configured to scale-out as your application data and customer
base grows?
o How to configure MySQL variables to ensure your applications run at their
peak performance?

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• How will you:
o Identify security loopholes in MySQL servers?
o Know when there have been security alterations on a MySQL server?
o Seamlessly add auditing compliance to your new and existing MySQL
applications?
• How will you:
o Optimize your database designs and queries before they are migrated into
your production environments or included in your products?
o Ensure replicated servers are configured correctly for performance and
scalability?
o Monitor and tune poorly performing user/application SQL code?
• How will you integrate MySQL with your existing security standards and
infrastructure?
• If you or your customers also use the Oracle Database, how can you:
o Manage MySQL high availability using existing Oracle solutions?

To help you answer these questions with confidence MySQL provides the MySQL
Enterprise Edition. MySQL Enterprise Edition is a commercial offering comprised of the
MySQL database with security, auditing and scalability extensions, online backup,
monitoring, management, and visual database design and SQL development tools.
MySQL Enterprise Edition is backed by Oracle Premier support for organizations
delivering highly available, business critical applications and services. MySQL
Enterprise includes the following components:

3 MySQL Database

The MySQL Database is a fully integrated transaction-safe, ACID compliant database

with full commit, rollback, crash-recovery and row level locking capabilities. The MySQL
Database is a cost-effective solution for:
• High-performance, scalable Web/Cloud/Hosting/SaaS and E-commerce
applications
• Corporate Departmental OLTP and Data Mart applications
• Operational datastore integrated with Big Data repositories (Hadoop)
• Low administration, high performance, reliable embedded database applications
• And more

The MySQL Database provides the following features:

• Self-healing Replication Clusters to improve scalability, performance and availability of high-
volume applications.
• Performance/Scalability to meet the demands of ever growing data loads and user concurrency.
• Online DDL/Schema Changes for dynamic applications that must remain available for updates
at all times.
• SQL and NoSQL Access for applications that require complex queries and simple, fast Key
Value operations against the same transactional dataset.
• Performance Schema for monitoring user/application level performance and resource
consumption.

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 • Platform Interoperability that allows MySQL to run across operating systems and to be used as
the operational data store for Hadoop and other Big Data platform deployments.,

You can learn more about what’s new in MySQL 5.6 for DBAs and Developers here:
http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/whats-new-mysql-5-6.

MySQL Replication and High Availability

MySQL Replication has been widely deployed by MySQL users to deliver both
scalability and high availability. It is simple for users to rapidly create multiple replicas of
their database to scale-out beyond the capacity constraints of a single instance,
enabling them to serve rapidly growing database workloads.

MySQL Replication works by simply having one server act as a master, while one or
more servers act as slaves. The master server will log the changes to the database.
Once these changes have been logged, they are then sent and applied to the slave(s).

Replication is often employed in a scale-out implementation so that requests that simply

“read” data can be directed to slave servers. This allows transactions involving writes to
be exclusively executed on the master server and leads to not only a performance boost
but a more efficient use of resources.

Replication is also the most common approach to delivering High Availability (HA) for
MySQL databases. Updates are replicated from a master to slave server with the goal
being to fail-over to the slave server in the event the master goes offline either due to an
error, crash or for maintenance purposes. To this end MySQL provides an advanced set
of automated, monitoring and fail-over utilities that enable DBAs to take a “set it and
forget it” approach to ensuring the MySQL databases under their care remain up and
available. Rendered in Python and provided as open source under the GPL, the
MySQL Utilities provide advanced slave promotion and fail-over functionality and are
fully extensible to meet custom needs. More information is available at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/mysql-utilities.html.
You can learn more about MySQL Replication and get practical, hands on experience
using these resources:

Introduction to MySQL Replication:

http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/mysql-replication-introduction.

Using MySQL Replication for Highly Available Applications:

http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/mysql-replication-high-availability.

MySQL Replication Hands On Tutorial: Configuration, Provisioning and Management:

http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/mysql-replication-tutorial.

MySQL Enterprise Edition builds on the above feature set by providing a set of
commercial extensions around the MySQL Database that meet the advanced security,
performance, scale and availability requirements of the most demanding applications,

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web and online environments. These extended features are exclusive to MySQL
Enterprise Edition and are described below.

4 MySQL Enterprise Audit

Today’s web-based applications have evolved from nice-to-have enablers to the

mission-critical revenue generating mechanisms that characterize the modern business
model. In this virtual marketplace, PCI compliance guidelines ensure credit card data is
secure within e-commerce apps. From a corporate standpoint, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA
and other government imposed mandates guard the medical, financial, public sector
and other personal data centric industries with required logging, archiving and "upon
request" access to audit trails that reveal the eyes and hands that have viewed and
acted upon the most sensitive of data. In all use cases, requirements for capturing
application level user activity are most commonly implemented on the back-end
database.

With this in mind, MySQL 5.5 and higher provides an open pluggable audit interface that
enables all MySQL users to write their own auditing solutions based on application
specific requirements. To help users quickly and seamlessly add auditing compliance
to their existing applications MySQL Enterprise Edtion includes MySQL Enterprise Audit
an easy to use policy-based auditing solution that enables users to:

• Dynamically enable/disable audit stream

• Implement policies that log all or selected login or query based activities
• Automatically rotate audit log files based on size
• Integrate XML-based audit log stream with MySQL, Oracle and other third party
solutions

A common set up and use case scenario is depicted here:

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 Figure 1: MySQL Enterprise Audit Set Up and Use Case

To learn more about MySQL Enterprise Audit visit:

http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/audit.html.

5 MySQL Enterprise Security

MySQL Database 5.5 and higher also supports an open, pluggable authentication
interface that enables users to develop plug-ins to authenticate MySQL client
connections against external resource such as LDAP, Windows Active Directory, PAM,
etc. This enables MySQL to easily integrate with existing security standards and
infrastructure.

MySQL External Authentication

MySQL Enterprise Edition provides ready to use external authentication modules for
users who authenticate users via Pluggable Authentication Modules (“PAM”) or native
Windows OS services. Each is described below:

• MySQL External Authentication for PAM - Enables you to configure MySQL to

use PAM to authenticate users on LDAP, Unix/Linux, and other systems.

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 Figure 2: MySQL External Authentication for PAM

• MySQL External Authentication for Windows – Enables you to configure MySQL

to use native Windows services to authenticate client connections. Users who
have logged in to Windows can connect from MySQL client programs to the
server based on the token information in their environment (via Active Directory)
without specifying an additional password.

Figure 3: MySQL External Authentication for Windows

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To learn more about MySQL Enterprise Security visit:
http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/security.html.

6 MySQL Enterprise Scalability

By default the MySQL Database provides a complex thread-handling model that

provides excellent throughput and performance for online and web-based applications.
User connections are mapped to execution threads on a one-to-one basis with each
connection/thread assignment remaining intact until the connection is terminated by the
client. Under this model the MySQL Database provides scalable concurrency of both
user connections and query executions.

Figure 4: Default Thread Handling Model

While this model serves and scales most web deployment use cases very well it does
have the potential to limit scalability as connection and query loads increase at an
increasing rate. This use case is becoming more common as application clients now
extend far beyond the keyboard to mobile and other web-enabled devices. For the
most highly-trafficked applications when concurrent connections grow from hundreds to
thousands and associated query executions grow proportionally scalability challenges
and limitations with the default model are potentially exposed:

• Current model does not prioritize connection queries for execution, regardless of
the number that have been submitted or that are in a “wait” status. No
prioritization of queries means that all attempt to execute in parallel with no
regard for server resource limitations.
• More concurrency of query executions requires significantly more server
memory. In an extreme case if the amount of memory needed by all active
connections exceeds server memory, the MySQL server may revert to
memory/disk swapping, which will greatly impact user response times.

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 • More query executions also leads to more cache flushing, which leads to more
cache misses and disk I/O requests. More disk I/O leads to longer query
execution and user response times.
• Write intensive applications are impacted significantly as concurrent DML
statement execution times can degrade exponentially as disk I/O increases.

The MySQL Thread Pool

To meet these challenges around the most demanding “mobilized” application user and
workloads MySQL Enterprise Edition provides the MySQL Thread Pool. The Thread
Pool is a user configurable option that provides an efficient, alternate thread-handling
model designed to sustain performance and scalability as concurrent user loads
continue to grow. In these use cases the Thread Pool addresses the limitations to
scalability by:

• Managing/controlling query execution until the MySQL server has the resources
to execute it.
• Splitting threads into managed Thread Groups. Inbound connections are
assigned to a group via a round-robin algorithm and the number of concurrent
connections/threads per group is limited based on queue prioritization and
nature of queries awaiting execution. Transactional queries are given a higher
priority in queue than non-transactional, but queue prioritization can be
overridden at the user level as needed.
• Avoiding deadlocks when queries are stalled or executing for long period of
time.

Figure 5: MySQL Thread Pool

The result is sustained performance and scalability as concurrent user connections and
work loads grow as shown here:

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 Figure 6: MySQL Enterprise Edition provides 60x better scalability for
OLTP Read/Write activity with Thread Pool

Figure 7: MySQL Enterprise Edition provides 18x better scalability for

OLTP Read activity with Thread Pool

SysBench OLTP benchmarks show that the MySQL Thread Pool provides a significant
improvement in sustained performance and scalability for applications that service a
growing number of concurrent user connections and query executions. The graphs

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 above show read/write activity improves by a factor of 60 while read only activity
improves by a factor of 18, both at 8,192 concurrent connections, with the Thread Pool
enabled.

To learn more about MySQL Enterprise Scalability visit:

http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/scalability.html.

7 MySQL Enterprise High Availability

Databases are the center of today’s applications – whether SMB, enterprise, web or
cloud, as they store and protect an organization’s most valuable assets, and run
business-critical applications. Just minutes of downtime can often result in significant
amounts of lost revenue and unsatisfied customers. Making database applications
highly available is therefore a top priority for DevOps and Architect teams.

As demonstrated below, MySQL Enterprise offers a range of solutions to meet different

application and operations environments that automatically detect and recover from
failures – whether these occur at the network, host, OS or database layer – as well as
eliminate downtime resulting from scheduled maintenance activities.

Oracle VM Template for MySQL Enterprise Edition

Integrating MySQL Enterprise Edition with Oracle VM and Oracle Linux, the Oracle VM
Template for MySQL1 is the fastest, easiest and most reliable way to provision
virtualized and highly available MySQL databases.

The Oracle VM Template for MySQL Enterprise Edition ensures rapid deployment and
helps eliminate configuration efforts and risks by providing a pre-installed and pre-
configured virtualized software image, taking advantage of Oracle VM’s mechanisms to
deliver high availability.

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 Figure 8: Oracle VM Template for MySQL 5.5 Enterprise Edition enable rapid
provisioning and integrated High Availability

Organizations can meet stringent SLA (Service Level Agreement) demands by using
the High Availability features of the Oracle VM Template for MySQL Enterprise Edition:

• Automatic recovery from failures, Oracle VM automatically restarts failed

MySQL instances on available servers in the server pool after outages of the
physical server, VM or MySQL database.
• Live Migration, enables operations staff to move running instances of MySQL
to alternative hosts within a server pool when they need to perform maintenance
operations.

Figure 9: Oracle VM Template protects MySQL against planned and unplanned

downtime
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 Together with Oracle’s 24/7 world-class technical support across the entire stack2, the
Oracle VM template for MySQL Enterprise Edition enables users to quickly and safely
deploy new web and cloud-based applications and services.

To learn more, download the whitepaper:

http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/mysql_wp_oracle-vm-template-for-
mee.php.

Windows Server Failover Clustering

Microsoft Windows is consistently ranked as the top development platform for MySQL,
and outranks any individual Linux distribution as the leading platform for MySQL
deployments, according to surveys of MySQL Enterprise, ISV / OEM and Community
users.

With the certification and support of MySQL with Windows Server Failover Clustering
(WSFC), organizations can safely deploy business-critical applications demanding high
levels of availability, powered by MySQL Enterprise.

Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) is a feature of the Enterprise and

Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2008 R2. The figure below illustrates the
integration of MySQL with Windows Server Failover Clustering to provide a highly
available service. Failures of either MySQL or the underlying server are automatically
detected and the MySQL instance is restarted on the Standby node. Applications
accessing the database, as well as any MySQL replication slaves, can automatically
reconnect to the new host running MySQL using the same Virtual IP address.

Administrators can also initiate a failover themselves when they need to take a server
offline for maintenance.

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Users need to subscribe to the Unbreakable Linux Network to receive support for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM

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 Figure 10: MySQL and Windows Server Failover Cluster Providing HA to
Business Critical Applications running on the Windows Platform

MySQL Enterprise Edition is fully supported when deployed on Windows Server

Failover Clustering3, and best practices are provided to guide users through the
provisioning and deployment.

To learn more download the whitepaper:

http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-
papers/mysql_wp_windows_failover_clustering.php.

Oracle Linux with DRBD Stack

Integrating MySQL Enterprise Edition with an integrated stack of mature and proven
open source technologies, fully supported by Oracle, the solution includes:
- MySQL Database;
- DRBD kernel module and userland utilities;
- Pacemaker and Corosync cluster messaging and management processes;
- Oracle Linux operating system.

The stack provides:

- Automatic failover and recovery for service continuity;
- Live migration for planned maintenance
- Mirroring, via synchronous replication, to ensure failover between nodes without the

Oracle does not provide technical support for Windows Server Failover Clustering itself. This must be sourced from Microsoft.
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 risk of losing committed transactions;
- Building of HA clusters from commodity hardware with local storage.

Figure 11: Oracle Linux with DRBD Stack

You can learn more about configuring and deploying MySQL Enterprise Edition with the
DRBD stack by downloading the whitepaper:
http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/mysql_wp_drbd.php.

Oracle Solaris Clustering

Oracle Solaris Cluster provides high availability and load balancing to mission-critical
applications and services in physical or virtualized environments. With Oracle Solaris
Cluster, organizations have a scalable and flexible solution that is suited equally to
small clusters in local datacenters or larger multi-site, multi-cluster deployments that are
part of enterprise disaster recovery implementations.

The Oracle Solaris Cluster MySQL agent integrates seamlessly with MySQL offering a
selection of configuration options in the various Oracle Solaris Cluster topologies

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 Figure 12: Oracle Solaris Clustering

You can learn more about Oracle Solaris Cluster and the MySQL agents here:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris-cluster/overview/index.html

To learn more about MySQL Enterprise High Availability visit:

http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/high_availability.html.

8 MySQL Enterprise Backup

Backup

MySQL Enterprise Backup performs online "Hot", non-blocking backups of MySQL

databases. Full backups can be performed on all InnoDB data while MySQL is online,
without interrupting queries or updates. In addition, incremental backups are supported
so that only data that has changed from a previous backup are backed up. Also partial
backups are supported when only certain tables or tablespaces need to be backed up.

Restore

MySQL Enterprise Backup restores data from a full backup with full backward
compatibility. Consistent Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) enables restoration to a
specific point in time. Using MySQL backups and binlog, you can also perform fine-
grained roll forward recovery to a specific transaction. A partial restore allows recovery
of targeted tables or tablespaces. In addition, you can restore backups to a separate
location, or create clones for fast replication setup or administration.

Compression

MySQL Enterprise Backup supports creating compressed backup files, typically

reducing backup size from 70% to over 90% when compared to the size of actual
database files, reducing storage and other costs.

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To learn more, download the whitepaper:
http://mysql.com/why-mysql/white-
papers/mysql_wp_enterprise_backup.php.

9 MySQL Enterprise Monitor

MySQL developers, DBAs and SysAdmins often find themselves having to manage
dynamic, high growth applications that require continuous uptime. The MySQL
Enterprise Monitor helps them automate the management of their MySQL infrastructure
and improve the performance and availability of their applications.

The MySQL Enterprise Monitor is a web-based application that can manage MySQL
within the safety of a corporate firewall or remotely in a public cloud. MySQL Enterprise
Monitor provides:

• Performance & Availability Monitoring - Continuously monitor MySQL queries

and performance related server metrics
• Visual Query Analysis – Monitor query performance and pinpoint SQL code
that is causing a slow-down
• InnoDB Monitoring - Monitor key InnoDB metrics that impact MySQL
performance
• MySQL Cluster Monitoring - Monitor key MySQL Cluster metrics that impact
performance and availability
• Replication Monitoring – Gain visibility into the performance, and health of all
MySQL Masters and Slaves
• Backup Monitoring – Ensure your online, hot backups are running as expected
• Disk Monitoring – Forecast future capacity requirements using trend analysis
and projections.
• Security Monitoring - Identify and resolve security vulnerabilities across all
MySQL servers
• Operating System Monitoring - Monitor operating system level performance
metrics such as load average, CPU usage, RAM usage and swap usage

Enterprise Dashboard for Monitoring all MySQL Servers

The Enterprise Dashboard, provides real-time visibility into the performance and
availability of all your MySQL databases. You can monitor MySQL metrics for a single
server or groups of servers, and manage all of their replication topologies. The
Enterprise Dashboard is designed to give you an overall view of the health of your
MySQL Servers and point you to potentially critical issues that may impact the
performance and availability of your applications. A rich set of real time and historical
graphs allow you to drill down into server statistic details.

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 Figure 13: MySQL Enterprise Dashboard

Monitoring of Replication/Scale-Out Topologies

The Enterprise Dashboard makes it easier to scale out using MySQL Replication by
providing industry-leading auto detection, grouping, documenting and monitoring of all
MySQL Replication master/slave hierarchical relationships. Changes and additions to
existing replication topologies are also auto detected and maintained providing you
instant visibility into newly implemented updates. This helps reduce the learning curve
for anyone new to MySQL Replication or to specific scale-out environments.

Figure 14: MySQL Enterprise Replication Monitoring

MySQL Query Analyzer

The MySQL Query Analyzer helps developers and DBAs improve application
performance by monitoring queries and accurately pinpointing SQL code that is causing
a slow down. Using the Performance Schema with MySQL Server 5.6, data is gathered
directly from the MySQL server without the need for any additional software or
configuration.

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Queries are presented in an aggregated view across all MySQL servers so DBAs and
developers can filter for specific query problems and identify the code that consumes
the most resources. With the MySQL Query Analyzer, DBAs can improve the SQL code
during active development and continuously monitor and tune the queries in production.

Figure 17: MySQL Query Analyzer

The MySQL Query Analyzer saves you time and effort in monitoring MySQL servers for
problem queries by providing:

• An integrated monitoring solution for all supported versions of MySQL (5.1 and
higher).
• Aggregated query content and performance stats in real time with no reliance on
MySQL logs or SHOW PROCESSLIST.
• Visual “grab and go” correlation of query activity with Monitor graphs.
• A consolidated view into query activity across all MySQL servers, no user parsing
required.
• Historical browsing/analysis of queries across all MySQL servers.
• Aggregated, searchable roll ups of all queries in canonical form (no variables)
with total number of executions, total execution time, total data size and
date/time of when query was “first seen”:
o Total Executions helps you see when queries are running too often or in
error. Even properly tuned queries cause performance problems when
they run excessively.

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 o SQL Warning and Error counts help you see queries that did not finish
or that returned incorrect result sets. These executions may never be
found using other query monitoring options.
o Total Execution Time helps you see the most “expensive” queries across
all of the servers. This value helps you see where systems are spending
the most time and resources and where you should focus your tuning
efforts.
o Total Data Size (Rows and Bytes) helps you analyze if queries are
returning more data than your application is using. Sorting on this value,
examining the underlying queries and comparing the returned rows and
columns with your application requirements will help you tune your
applications and schema for better performance.
o “First Seen” allows you to easily monitor when queries attributed to new
application deployments are affecting the performance of your production
systems.
• Drill downs into query details, number of executions, execution stats, visual
EXPLAIN plan, and query specific execution graphs.
• Drill downs that allow developers to trace query execution back to the originating
source code.

To learn more, visit: http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/query.html

10 MySQL Workbench Enterprise Edition

MySQL Workbench is a unified visual development tool that includes advanced data
modeling capabilities, a visual SQL editor and comprehensive administration tools for
database design, query development, server configuration, user administration, and
wizard-driven database migrations.

Design

MySQL Workbench enables a DBA, developer, or data architect to visually design,

model, generate, and manage databases. It includes everything a data modeler needs
for creating complex ER models, forward and reverse engineering, and also delivers
key features for performing difficult change management and documentation tasks that
normally require much time and effort.

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 Figure 18: MySQL Workbench – Visual Database Design

Develop

MySQL Workbench delivers visual tools for creating, executing, and optimizing SQL
queries. The SQL Editor provides color syntax highlighting, reuse of SQL snippets, and
execution history of SQL. The Database Connections Panel enables developers to
easily manage database connections. The Object Browser provides instant access to
database schema and objects.

Figure 19: MySQL Workbench – SQL Development, Execution, Tuning

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Administer

MySQL Workbench provides a visual console to easily administer MySQL environments

and gain better visibility into databases. Developers and DBAs can use the visual tools
for configuring servers, administering users, and viewing database health.

Figure 20: MySQL Workbench – Server Administration, Monitoring

Migrate

MySQL Workbench provides a visual console to easily administer MySQL environments

and gain better visibility into databases. Developers and DBAs can use the visual tools
for configuring servers, administering users, and viewing database health.

MySQL Workbench provides a visual Migration Wizard that enables quick migration of
tables, objects and data from Microsoft SQL Server and other RDBMS platforms to
MySQL. The MySQL Workbench Migration Wizard is designed to save DBA and
developer time by providing visual, point and click ease of use around all phases of
configuring and managing a complex migration process:

• Migration project management - allows migrations to be configured, copied,

edited, executed and scheduled.
• Source and Target selection - allows users to define specific data sources and
to analyze source data in advance of the migration.
• Object migration - allows users to select objects to migrate, assign source to
target mappings where needed, edit migration scripts and create the target
schema.
• Data migration - allows users to map source and target data and data types, set
up data transfer and assign post data transfer events where needed.

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 Figure 21: MySQL Workbench – Database Migration Wizard

To learn more, download the whitepaper:

http://mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/mysql-wp-workbench.php

11 Oracle Product Certifications/Integrations

An estimated 70% of Oracle’s database customers also use MySQL. MySQL

Enterprise Edition makes managing MySQL easier in these environments by certifying
and supporting the use of the MySQL Database in conjunction with many Oracle
products. These include:

• Oracle Linux – enables MySQL to run on the most advanced, Oracle developed
and supported version of the Linux kernel.
• Oracle Virtual Machine – provides MySQL specific template for easy
deployment of applications that requirement the highest levels of availability.
• Oracle Fusion Middleware– provides the same set of operational and business
planning solutions that are available for the Oracle database.
• Oracle Secure Backup – provides secure, policy-driven backup to tape media
for MySQL databases.
• Oracle Golden Gate - provides bi-directional replication between MySQL and
Oracle databases for distributed hybrid enterprise application deployments.
• Oracle Database Firewall – provides network-based monitoring, logging and
deflection of MySQL protocol communication packets.

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Learn more about Oracle products:
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/index.html.

12 Oracle Premier Support

Oracle offers 24x7, global support for MySQL. The MySQL Support team is composed
of seasoned MySQL developers, who are database experts and understand the issues
and challenges you face. With Oracle Premier Support, you can lower the total cost and
risk of owning your MySQL databases, improve the return from your IT investment, and
optimize the business value of your IT solutions. MySQL support is included in the
subscription for end users, and available separately from commercial licenses for ISVs
and OEMs. Oracle Premier Support for MySQL includes the following features:

• 24 X 7 production support
• Unlimited support incidents
• Knowledge Base
• Maintenance releases, bug fixes, patches and updates
• MySQL Consultative support
• Staffed by the most experienced MySQL Engineers in the industry

Learn more about Oracle Premier Support:

http://mysql.com/support/

13 Conclusion

In this paper we explored the components that are included in MySQL Enterprise
Edition. These components are designed to help you mitigate risk and meet Service
Level Agreements (SLAs) as you implement applications built on the lower costs and
licensing freedom that comes with standardizing on MySQL and other open source
technologies. MySQL Enterprise Edition extends the MySQL Database to include
advanced Auditing, Security, Performance/Scale and High Availability features. The
MySQL Enterprise Backup performs online "Hot", non-blocking backups of your MySQL
databases. The Enterprise Monitor, Advisors and Query Analyzer proactively notify you
of problems and tuning opportunities before they turn into customer facing issues.
MySQL Workbench enables developers, DBAs, and data architects to design, develop,
migrate, and administer database applications. For managing Oracle and MySQL
databases, there are supported integrations and certifications that allow you to manage
MySQL using many Oracle products. Finally, the Oracle Premier Support provides you
with quick answers and resolutions when you need help, so your systems provide
uninterrupted availability to your customers.

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14 Additional Resources

MySQL Customers and Case Studies

http://www.mysql.com/customers

MySQL Enterprise Edition

http://mysql.com/products/enterprise/

MySQL Enterprise Backup

http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/backup.html

MySQL Enterprise Monitor

http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/monitor.html

MySQL Query Analyzer

http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/query.html

MySQL High Availability

http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/high_availability.html

MySQL Professional Services and Consulting

http://mysql.com/consulting/

MySQL for ISVs and OEMs

http://mysql.com/why-mysql/isv-oem-corner/

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Appendix A: MySQL Customers

Global companies such as Bank of America, Lufthansa, and Alcatel-Lucent rely on

MySQL for their day to day business operations. Global ISVs and OEMs such as
Adobe, F5 and Sage Group entrust their products’ success to MySQL as their
embedded database. These organizations have put MySQL to the test and have chosen
MySQL for its ease of use, performance, and reliability.

MySQL is also the database of choice for a new generation of modern database
applications including Web, SaaS and Cloud applications. The world’s most trafficked
Web sites including Facebook, Google and YouTube rely on MySQL for their business
critical applications. These Web sites are proof that MySQL can meet the most
demanding performance and scalability requirements. For example, Facebook deploys
thousands of MySQL servers and has scaled MySQL to manage 500 million users.

Some of the most advanced MySQL customers and markets segments include:
• Web: Facebook, Google, YouTube, eBay, Yahoo
• eCommerce: Zappos, Ticketmaster
• SaaS/Cloud: Savvis, RightNow, Zimbra, Clickability
• Embedded: Adobe, CA, Cisco, Symantec

Partial List of MySQL Customers

Web/End Users Customers Embedded/ISV Customers Telecom Customers
• Amazon.com • Adobe • Alcatel-Lucent
• Baidu • Airbus • Aastra Telecom Schweiz
• BBC News • Business Objects AG
• Craigslist • CA NetQoS • AT&T Wireless
• Disney • Citrix • BT Plusnet
• Ebay • Dell Kace • Cable & Wireless
• Facebook • Eastman Kodak • Cell C
• Google • EMC • Cisco
• LinkedIn • F5 Networks • Clarus Systems
• Lufthansa • F-Secure • Comcast
• NASA • Hewlett Packard • Ericsson
• Priceline.com • Intel • France Telecom
• Puma • Iron Mountain • Italtel
• Shopatron • McAfee • Motorola
• Ticketmaster • Motorola • Nokia Siemens Networks
• Twitter • Quest • Oi Telecom
• Walmart • Sage Group • Pyro Group
• Wells Fargo • Scholastic • SFR
• Yahoo! • SonicWall • Telenor
• YouTube • Symantec • Teligent
• Zappos • Texas Instruments • T-Systems International
• Zynga • Trend Micro • UTS Starcom

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Appendix B: Zappos Case Study

Zappos - A “Growing” Challenge

Zappos prefers to think of itself as a customer-service company that happens to sell
shoes and handbags online. Since its founding in 1999, Zappos has grown to 1,000+
employees and its website now carries over 1,000 name brands, over 150,000 styles
and nearly 3 million products in stock for ready for immediate shipment. The company
built its innovative business model and e-commerce site from scratch and created a
better way to shop for consumers tired of finding that their most-desired items were
always out of stock at traditional retailers.

The Challenge
In the earliest start-up days of Zappos.com, the company needed to properly balance
enterprise database requirements with the realities of a not-so-limitless IT budget. After
evaluating several open source alternatives, they selected MySQL because it was the
most robust, easy-to-use and affordable database software available. As Zappos'
business quickly grew, their use of MySQL also became more advanced and business-
critical.

The MySQL Solution

To service growing customer demand, Zappos implemented a modern Scale-Out
architecture using MySQL Replication to power its mission-critical website, underlying
systems infrastructure, and business-support tools. It features two master MySQL
database servers and five replicated, load-balanced slaves to handle high traffic volume
— assuring fast performance and high availability for their online customers.

MySQL products and services protect them from downtime and performance issues via
proactive monitoring and alerts that are provided by the Enterprise Monitor and
Advisors. They have confidence and peace of mind knowing that any problem they
experience with MySQL will be quickly resolved with help from the MySQL Support
team.

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Appendix C: Booking.com Case Study

Booking.com – Over 1 Million Customers Served per Day

Booking.com is Europe's largest online hotel travel reservations agency — attracting
over 20 million unique visitors each month. Part of Priceline.com, the successful
European site processes tens of thousands of online bookings every day for over
30,000 hotels in 8,000 destinations worldwide in 15 different languages.

The Challenge
As one of the Web's most successful online travel sites, Booking.com experienced
explosive growth; travel bookings grew 100% from 2005 to 2006. In 2007, the
company's development team undertook a project to re-architect their legacy MySQL-
based system and improve their site's performance, uptime, scalability and business
reporting capabilities. To get things started they employed the MySQL Professional
Services group to consult on implementing a new, modern scale-out architecture built
on Replication and the MySQL Enterprise Server.

The MySQL Solution

The new architecture involved dividing one main MySQL database into three separate
master servers and then replicating their distinct data on multiple low-cost machines.
They also implemented DRBD and Linux Heartbeat for MySQL to ensure the integrity
and failover of their replicated data. In doing so, Booking.com was able to significantly
increase their site's speed, reduce booking data errors, lower their infrastructure cost
and improve the uptime of their customer servicing applications.

MySQL provides Booking.com with the support and services they need to deliver a
pleasant, consistent travel booking experience to the customers they service. They
continue to leverage the MySQL Professional Services team to consult on their Scale-
out needs as their applications must continue to scale to serve their growing business.
Booking.com also uses the Enterprise Monitor and Advisors to help find problems and
tuning opportunities before they turn into problems and potential lost customers.

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Appendix D: Adobe Case Study

Adobe Embeds MySQL to Make Creative Professionals More Productive

Adobe Systems is one of the largest software companies and is the leading provider of
creative tools for print, web, interactive, mobile, video and film. Adobe® Creative Suite
CS3 tightly integrates the company’s flagship products including Adobe Photoshop
CS3, Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Flash CS3, Adobe
Dreamweaver CS3 and Adobe Acrobat CS3 into a single design and development
toolkit.

The Challenge
Designers and developers face a number of challenges as they try to deliver project
after project under tight deadlines. Some of the reasons that make it difficult for
workgroups of artists, designers and project managers to deliver projects on time and
on budget include:
• Artists can’t open an image file because it is being used by someone else
• Designers waste hours opening up files to find the most recent version
• Departments spend days re-creating work because files get overwritten by
another designer
• Project managers waste precious time consolidating feedback from emails, faxes
and hard copy edits

The MySQL Solution

Adobe embeds MySQL into several Adobe Creative Suite 3 components, including
Adobe Acrobat CS3, Adobe Bridge CS3, and Adobe Version Cue CS3 so that
workgroups can work more efficiently on complex projects. For example, MySQL
enables Adobe Creative Suite users to:
• Browse files and preview thumbnails locally including PDFs, Illustrator,
Photoshop and Flash without having to search the network
• Locate files faster by searching on keywords, authors, comments, file creation
dates, edit dates or any other metadata
• Share projects and work on the same file without usage or edit conflicts
• Easily manage PDF based reviews by setting up access privileges, tracking
comments and incorporating changes
• View vital workflow information such as who is currently editing the file and
revisions that have been made on the file
Adobe chose MySQL for the following reasons:
• Easy of use making MySQL quick and easy to embed
• Reliability which contributes to the overall quality of Adobe Creative Suite
• Low Administration so Adobe Creative Suite customers don’t need a DBA
• High Performance making searches & workgroup functions extremely fast

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Appendix E: Zimbra Case Study

Zimbra Deploys Millions of Email Accounts as a SaaS Solution

Zimbra is the leader in open source, next-generation messaging and collaboration
software, supporting over 8 million paid mailboxes across tens of thousands of
organizations. Their customers include well-known service providers, Fortune 1000
enterprises and leading education institutions. Recently, Zimbra Collaboration Suite
(ZCS) was deployed to over 10,000 H&R Block offices worldwide. In addition, Comcast,
the nation's largest cable operator, will provide its Triple Play customers with an
integrated communications solution using ZCS later this year.

The Challenge
Existing proprietary messaging and collaboration solutions such as Microsoft Exchange
are difficult and expensive to operate, requiring organizations to hire dedicated, high
cost administrators. Zimbra saw an opportunity to change the game by building a truly
modern and innovative messaging and collaboration application cost-effectively
delivered on premise or on demand, as Software as a Service (SaaS). To be
successful, Zimbra built a system that would scale to meet the needs of businesses with
hundreds-of-thousands of users — and service providers with millions, and even tens-
of-millions of users.

The MySQL Solution

The Zimbra Collaboration Suite solution unifies email, contacts, shared calendar, VoIP,
and online document authoring in a rich browser-based interface and integrates with a
full messaging and collaboration server. To ensure high levels of scalability, reliability,
security and high-performance, Zimbra chose to build their solution on top of proven,
high-quality open source components including Linux, Apache, MySQL and Ajax.
Furthermore, Zimbra employs a modular architecture that enables horizontal scale-out
of the server and databases, which is crucial for high-growth enterprise-scale
deployments. Zimbra chose MySQL in particular because of its robustness, efficiency,
and ease to embed in the ZCS solution.

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