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Mixi Delivers Massive Scale-Out With MySQL

Overview As a young start-up company, mixi could not afford expensive proprietary software. Instead, they turned to the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl) stack for their high-performance scale-out solution. mixi deploys over 100 MySQL Servers to manage over 3 million users who are creating diaries, posting messages, paying for premium services, and more. mixi is adding 15,000 new members every day and generates over 150 million page views/day using MySQL!

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	MySQL	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2006
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Database Applications

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