4 Apr 2014

Codership Galera Cluster receives MySQL Community Award

Codership Galera Cluster receives MySQL Community Award and is Finalist of RedHerring Top 100 Europe

Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo, Santa Clara – April 3, 2014

We are very pleased and honoured to have today received the prestigious MySQL Community Award for Application of the Year 2014. The award was presented at the community welcome reception at this year’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, CA.

We have seen seen a tremendous increase in interest in Galera Cluster in the past two years. In 2013, Galera Cluster and its two variants Percona XtraDB Cluster and MariaDB Galera Cluster, have been downloaded over 100,000 times!

As per the words used by the MySQL Community Awards panel committee: “Galera provides MySQL with synchronous replication, offering a long-time sought-for High Availability solution for MySQL™. It is fast becoming one of the main technologies everyone is building next-gen businesses around. It is an important part of the renaissance of what’s next for the “MySQL ecosystem”.

In addition, we are also pleased to confirm that we have been selected as a Finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe Award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the European business region.

The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across Europe. The nominees are evaluated on 20 main quantitative and qualitative criterion: they include disruptive impact, market footprint, proof of concept, financial performance, technology innovation, social value, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.

“This year was rewarding, beyond all expectations” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “The global economic situation has abated and there are many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products. We had a very difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. Codership shows great promise and therefore deserves to be among the Finalists. Now we’re faced with the difficult task of selecting the Top 100 winners of Red Herring Europe. We know that the 2014 crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to make an impact.”