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A new study from Hyperic Inc., a Web infrastructure management software provider, shows that one of its applications could monitor 2.3 million metric transactions per minute with Sun Microsystems’ (News - Alert) MySQL as its backend database.

 

The study, on “Hyperic HQ,” was carried out on 675 discreet managed platforms and simulated a large-scale deployment monitoring 32,000 services, according to Hyperic.

 

To determine the actual and maximum loads, the company used two tests – an actual load test where Hyperic HQ averaged 220,000 metrics per minute, and a maximum load test.

 

According to the company, the new application is in demand.

 

More and more companies want Hyperic HQ with MySQL as the database backend to its monitoring and management software, the company said. Replying to these demands, in January 2008, Hyperic introduced formal support for the popular open source database. The company soon started a large-scale beta testing with customers such as CNET during the release process and became one of the first commercial, data-intensive enterprise applications to add support for MySQL.

 

As Internet usage grows, companies must provide fast-growth and high-traffic to meet emerging usage demands. MySQL and Hyperic address enterprise-level needs for performance, scalability, availability and reliability, acordin to the company.

 

“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.”