"ClearDB's Multi-Master, coast-to-coast availability offering has enabled us to offer our clients seamless up times even when data center outages occur."
- Tom Wilson, President
Jack Russell Software
This case study highlights the benefits of working with well defined H/A database infrastructure in the cloud, and how ClearDB ensures that not only mission-critical, but life critical data services stay online, 24/7. Jack Russell Software, a division of CareKinesis, Inc, builds and maintains a SaaS product that is used by healthcare professionals every day to ensure that patients are taken care of. The following is Jack Russell Software's story, a first-hand account of how ClearDB has enabled them to succeed with their clients by running their SaaS product in the cloud, powered by ClearDB's enterprise-grade database-as-a-service platform.
"ClearDB's 24/7 service and support have been invaluable to our business needs, as lives actually depend on our data being available."
"Migrating to ClearDB has enabled our team to focus on what we love, writing code."
In August 2011, we arrived at the conclusion that we needed help managing our databases. At the time, our infrastructure was running entirely on Amazon Web Services (AWS). On the database side, we managed a handful of AWS Relational Database Servers (RDS). The database servers were in both the East and West regions, but we wanted even more redundancy.
As our infrastructure and userbase grew, so did the importance of resilience in our infrastructure. We knew that we could not achieve this without master-master replication between the East and West coasts. We also knew that we are programmers, not DBAs. To build a rock solid solution would require hiring either a DBA or finding a managed solution.
Given the speed of growth we were experiencing and the high level of expectations we had, whatever we chose had to be the best of breed. We considered hiring a DBA, but prefered a fully-managed database provider. Our requirements were straightforward:
Our extensive research led us to the folks at ClearDB. We haven't looked back since.
Now that we have a year of working with ClearDB under our belt, we can confidently say that we don't know how we lived without them. Collectively, the team at Jack Russell Software has a solid understanding of database schemas and SQL. Combined with ClearDB's expert team of DBAs and software engineering professionals, we are able to focus on our business, not our database.
As our data needs grew, execution of the items above became more and more important. ClearDB has helped us tune our queries a countless number of times. They have discovered and helped troubleshoot issues that we didn't even know we had.
The one support item that really impressed us was ClearDB's technical knowledge at the application level. We knew that they were all over our databases, but we didn't expect them to help optimize our application configuration. This really solidified our appreciation for the role they were playing on our team.
In addition to the level of support and extensive service offerings ClearDB provides, they also support EC2, our primary cloud environment. By keeping our applications and databases in the same EC2 environment, we were able to seamlessly switch to ClearDB without modifying existing security and networking policies.
No IT environment is safe from failure. ClearDB expects and attacks failure by running complete geo-separation and automatic multi-regional failover enabled MySQL for your applications. Our multi-master MySQL and advanced high availability routing and synchronization technologies enable your business to continue operations, even when whole regions fail.
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