WACO, TX (Dec. 7, 2011) - SuccessBricks, Inc. is pleased to announce that its flagship service ClearDB is now available as an official add-on through the popular cloud application platform Heroku.  The general release means Heroku developers can now take advantage of ClearDB’s globally distributed MySQL database service.

"Heroku is committed to providing our users with a range of solutions that address common challenges," says Morten Bagai, senior director of product management at Heroku.  "ClearDB provides Heroku users with a globally distributed MySQL database management option that will keep users connected to their data even if whole regions of the Internet should fail.  The ClearDB add-on gives Heroku customers an additional choice in globally distributed database services.”

"We are pleased to now offer ClearDB as a powerful add-on for Heroku customers,” adds Cashton Coleman, President and CEO of SuccessBricks, Inc, and architect of ClearDB.  “It has been a pleasure to work with the Heroku team, and we're excited to bring our game-changing MySQL database service to Heroku customers.”

Heroku customers can get started using ClearDB on Heroku for free with our 5MB Ignite package, and move into production use with our Punch package, a great price at $9.99 per month with 1GB of storage. For more information about the ClearDB add-on for Heorku, please visit http://addons.heroku.com/cleardb .

ClearDB is an affordable and powerful database-as-a-service solution that provides geographically distributed, highly available MySQL database services to the cloud.  With ClearDB, you will stay connected to your database even if entire regions of the Internet experience sudden, pervasive service outages.

"ClearDB solves a simple but vital problem: provide customers with a way to continuously have access to their MySQL database at all times,” says Cashton.  “With ClearDB, we solve a critical issue that has brought down sites like Netflix, Reddit and Quora when service availability problems occur in Amazon Web Services. What's more, we've solved it in a way that is simple to implement, easy to use, and is affordable for any sized company."

ClearDB is the result of more than four years of research and development. It is a globally distributed database platform that uses an innovative approach to multi-master MySQL database replication and management for the cloud.

For more information about ClearDB, please visit www.cleardb.com.