Open source database market share within Jelastic: February 2012
As we continue to grow and our user base gets bigger and bigger, our sample size gets better and better as we look at database usage percentages. So, let’s look at the data for this month.
Below is the overall usage of databases within Jelastic for the month of February.
As you can see, there are no big changes in database popularity this month. MySQL is still the overall leader. MariaDB is in second place in the SQL databases and PosgreSQL follows it not far behind. If we look at NoSQL databases: MongoDB comes in ahead of CouchDB, but since we added CouchDB support more recently those stats might change.
Overall, comparing database market share within Jelastic, we see that the numbers have has stayed about the same, and it holds true as we compare usage in the US vs EU.
Here are the current overall numbers:
|
Europe |
NA |
Total |
|
| MySQL |
41% |
45% |
43% |
| MariaDB |
16% |
18% |
17% |
| PostgreSQL |
17% |
12% |
14% |
| MongoDB |
22% |
20% |
21% |
| CouchDB |
4% |
5% |
5% |
And finally, here is a database popularity chart looking at database usage over the few months, from October 2011 through February 2012.
Hope you found this useful! Stay tuned to see the changes next month!
Newsletter – February 22, 2012
Hey! Hope you have been having a great week. In this edition of the newsletter, I want to share with you a couple cool how-to’s, news about our commercial release and some stuff that we learned at the Parallels Summit.
Commercial Release
If you didn’t get a chance to see it, we announced when we will be doing our commercial release. In conjunction with our partners, Servint and dogado, we announced that next month, March, will be when we finally do our commercial release and come out of beta. Next month!
We are really excited about this and are working around the clock to make sure that we get all the bugs and kinks out and it looks like we will be right on track to make this happen.
If you are interested in reading the news release, which includes what our pricing will be, you can find it here.
Play! Framework Support
It was the most requested feature to be made available, and now it is.
Last week we launched full support for the Play! framework and it has been taking off! It was the most voted on new feature to be added and now it works in the Jelastic Cloud.
Play is one of the most popular frameworks on the web, helping developers build cool apps on the web using Java and Scala.
Getting up and running is really easy. Just create the environment, configure your database and then launch the app with a few string changes. Boom! You’ve got Play! in the Jelastic Cloud in about 8min.
If you want to see the detailed how-to, you can read it here.
Deploying XWiki the Easy Way
If you don’t already have a wiki for your business or your organization, now is a good time to start. Aside from being really useful, it is a great way to present information and create a gathering place for your community.
XWiki is just about the best way to make your wiki happen. Just go and download the latest version from XWiki.org and then upload that package to Jelastic. Create your environment and database and then, after you make a few changes to the XWiki install, you are ready to deploy it.
A more detailed how-to with screenshots is here.
Parallels Summit Takeaways
The Parallels Summit in Orlando was awesome. We had a great time, got to meet tons of cool people and had a chance to showcase Jelastic to the hosting community.
In short, everyone loved Jelastic.
But we learned a few things too.
Guy Kawasaki probably said it best during his keynote: “You have to learn to enchant your customer.” That is something that we have been trying to do from day 1.
We created Jelastic when we realized that the projects that we wanted to work on would never happen within the confines of the currently available PaaS options out there. So, we set out to make the best PaaS in the world.
Jelastic was made by devs for devs. But, we also realized that having a sweet UI was important; and we also realized that making it really easy to deploy apps the Cloud was important. That is where Jelastic came from. We’ve been working hard to make Jelastic the best platform for Java hosting out there, and we think we are doing a pretty good job. As I like to say, “Jelastic takes the sys-admin out of being a developer.”
We hope that you like what we have been doing. If you have any suggestions, please let us know. We would love to hear from you.
One last thing…
This weekend, we will be at the OpenCF Summit in Dallas, TX. We will be showing how easy it is to deploy CFML apps the Cloud using Jelastic.
If you are around, please say hello! It would be great to meet you.
Still need help starting with Jelastic?
Check out our 2 minute tutorial videos.
Go to Jelastic now and move your apps to the cloud!
We appreciate you using Jelastic. Below are a few links, to our Facebook, Twitter, Blog and Video Channel. These are great learning resources and easy ways to stay in touch with us. We are also always available at our support forums, answering any questions that you might have. Thanks you for using Jelastic and for providing your feedback.
Ruslan Synytskyy,CEO @ Jelestic, Inc.
How to deploy XWiki to Jelastic cloud: step-by-step tutorial
If you are a fan of XWiki, or you haven’t had a chance yet to try it, here is your chance to see how easy it is to use with Jelastic. XWiki is a free wiki software platform written in Java that is pretty cool and useful. It allows for the storing of structured data and the execution of server side script within the wiki interface.
Let’s deploy XWiki to Jelastic cloud right now!
1. Create an environment
- Go to jelastic.com and sign up if you haven’t done so yet, or log in with your Jelastic credentials by clicking the Sign In link on the page.
- Ask Jelastic to create a new environment:
- In the Environment Topology dialog, pick your application server (for example, Tomcat 6) and the database you want to use (for example MySQL). Then specify your environment name, for example, xwikitest.
It will take just a minute for your environment to be created.
2. Upload a Java package
- Navigate to xwiki.org and download the latest XWiki distribution WAR.
- Go back to Jelastic and upload the package you have just downloaded to the Deployment manager.
- Once the package is in Jelastic, deploy it to your environment.
3. Configure database
- Click the Open in browser button for MySQL.
- When you created the environment, Jelastic sent you an email with credentials to the database. Use these credentials to create a user account and the database with the application.
4. Configure XWiki
- Upload MySQL connector to the lib folder .
- Pick Config for Tomcat and change hibernate.cfg.xml file (webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF): comment the part of file which is responsible for the default database configuration, uncomment MySQL configuration and type the correct database connection URL, your database name and password.
Save the changes and restart Tomcat!
5. Start XWiki
Now you can open XWiki in a browser and create your spaces and pages there. Enjoy!
Cheers!
Guy Kawasaki, Parallels Summit and Commercial Release
Wow… this was a crazy last week.
We went to the Parallels Summit in Orlando, showed off Jelastic to the Hosting world, listened to a number of great speakers, enjoyed meeting a ton of Jelastic fans, announced our commercial release and met Guy Kawasaki in the process.
Parallels Summit
This was our first conference of the new year and it was a smashing success.
We got to meet a ton of people and pretty much everyone loved Jelastic. As one of our partners (@Dogado) said, “Jelastic is on everyone’s lips!”
Within the Hosting Industry, a lof of people were really impressed with Jelastic. In fact, the CEO of Softlayer, Lance Crosby, during his talk on the Evolution of Hosting Services: What’s Next? mentioned Jelastic. He talked about how in the last 2 years there has been more change and new, ground-breaking companies emerging with new technology than in the last 15 years. Then as an example, Lance said, “As far as companies that will be around in the near future, Jelastic is really impressive.”
Feels nice to know that others are catching our vision for the future of the Cloud.
Commercial Release
During the conference, we release the news of when our commercial availability would be. This generated a ton of buzz. If you missed the announcement, you can read it here.
One of the coolest things about how the pricing is set up, is that it will be based on consumption versus per machine. This means that you will save money when your app is not being used. In fact, you can go all the down to hibernation to reduce cost and save money.
A few cool things
During the event, we got to hear Guy Kawasaki speak on what it takes to make customers happy; we also got to hear quite a bit about how much he likes Apple. But, you can’t deny his track record: he is good at what he does.
Though I didn’t get a chance to get a photo with him, I did get a signed copy of his latest book.
Keep an eye out
This week is going to be great. We will be putting out of ton of new stuff–new how to’s, announcements, we’ll be at the OpenCF Summit in Dallas and we will be moving as fast as we can to add all the cool features that you guys have asked for.
Below are a few photos from the Summit in Orlando. We have more, but we’ll be putting those on our Facebook page.
Cheers!
Check out the sweet laptop stickers that we had made! If you want one, drop me a line and let me know: judah@jelastic.com
Here is Serguei Beloussov, one of our investors, telling the audience about Jelastic and how fast we are growing.
And here is Ruslan (R), our CEO, signing some important stuff with one of our new partners (more info coming soon…)
Chuck approved Jelastic :) Just to make you smile
Chuck Norris doesn’t write code. He stares at a computer screen until he gets the app he wants, deployed into Jelastic.
Chuck Norris doesn’t deploy web applications, he roundhouse kicks them into Jelastic cloud.
One Chuck’s roundhouse kick = 1 cloudlet in Jelastic.
Like Jelastic, Chuck Norris never has a bug in his code, EVER!
Chuck Norris runs all the java applications in the world using only one cloudlet.
Chuck Norris creates new environments in Jelastic with one look.
Chuck’s environments are fatality.jelastic.com and roundhouse-kickology.jelastic.servint.net
Chuck Norris downloaded whole the Internet and deployed it to Jelastic.
Chuck’s environments never sleep, EVER!
Chuck Norris is not a man. He is a machine, a Java virtual machine on Jelastic.
Next-Generation Java PaaS Jelastic announces commercial availability and pricing in US and Europe
—Revolutionary Java hosting platform will pioneer real utility pricing instantaneously scaling up or down to match actual usage patterns, and billing customers for the actual use of RAM and CPU as opposed to “per machine” model prevailing on the market today. Jelastic will go out of beta and become commercially available from US and German hosting partners in March 2012 —
Orlando, FL, February 16, 2012 – Jelastic – http://jelastic.com – the only platform-as-a-service (PaaS) available globally through a network of hosting partners, and capable of running and scaling any Java applications with no lock-in or code changes required – today announced its pricing and commercial availability timeframe.
In March 2012, Jelastic will become commercially available in North America from ServInt, and in Europe (Germany) from dogado Internet GmbH (in collaboration with Host Europe).
Unlike other PaaS and IaaS options on the market, Jelastic does not require users to select the machine size and pay for it. Instead, Jelastic dynamically allocates resources instantaneously scaling application servers up and down, and making sure that they have the resources that they need. This enables Jelastic’s hosting partners to charge users for the actual RAM and CPU consumption rather than for predefined machine size. Customers benefit because the costs automatically go down when applications are off or not being used. Jelastic measures resources being consumed in “cloudlets” – one cloudlet is 128 MB of RAM and processing power equivalent to 200MHz CPU core. Today ServInt and dogado announced their commercial pricing: $0.02 per cloudlet per hour from ServInt, and 0.016 euro from dogado.
Jelastic is also unique because it does not require any application code changes, so developers can simply upload their Java package or specify connection to their SVN or GIT code repository, and get their application running in the cloud in a few minutes, with no lock-in whatsoever, and ability to choose from multiple independent hosting providers around the world.
“Since we publicly launched our beta in October last year, pricing and commercial availability have been the most popular questions we were getting from our users,” said Jelastic COO Dmitry Sotnikov. “Today we got to the major milestone with our first two partners – ServInt in the US and dogado in Europe – publicly announced commercial availability timeframe as well as revolutionary utility billing approach for the service. This is a major step in accomplishing our vision of zero-lock-in standards-based PaaS available to our users around the world.”
“Combining Jelastic’s cutting-edge technology with ServInt’s 17 years of hosting know-how has put us on a path to provide great things for our customers,” said ServInt COO Christian Dawson. “We think the near-utility approach we’re taking with Jelastic on pricing and provisioning is going to break the platform-as-a-service industry wide open. The product is miles ahead of its competitors on technological features, and now we’re adding game-changing, customer-friendly pricing to the mix. Jelastic is a truly revolutionary Cloud product, and we can’t wait to bring it to market in March.”
Jelastic’s power, we offer dependable high-availability and fully automated load-balancing, combined with both vertically and horizontally scalable servers and resources.”
Jelastic has been in public beta testing both in North America and Europe since October of 2011, and has enjoyed extremely strong growth during that time reaching 10,000 beta testers world-wide. Both ServInt and dogado will continue to offer the product at no cost until the March launch date, at which point all users will enjoy a two-week extension of their free beta, followed by official commencement of their paid service. New customers joining after official launch will benefit from the same free two-week trial period, after which paid service will automatically commence unless the service is cancelled.
The announcement was made at Parallels Summit 2012, the leading global annual gathering of the cloud industry.
About Jelastic
Jelastic, Inc., a startup company based in Palo Alto, Calif., makes the Java server hosting platform for developers and hosting service providers. Jelastic is the only PaaS offering designed specifically for hosting service providers to deploy and make available to their customers. Jelastic automatically scales Java applications and allocates server resources required by applications, thus delivering the true next generation Java cloud computing. You can learn more about Jelastic or sign-up for the service at http://jelastic.com
About ServInt
ServInt is a pioneering provider of high-reliability, managed hosting for enterprises worldwide. ServInt was founded in Northern Virginia in 1995 as one of the first hosting companies to offer a Managed Dedicated Server solution. From multiple world-class data centers, ServInt now provides its scalable suite of VPS and Managed Dedicated Server packages to thousands of customers in more than 100 countries. To learn more about ServInt’s hosting solutions, please call 1-800-573-7846 or visit www.servint.net.
About dogado
dogado Internet GmbH, based in Dortmund Germany, is an Internet Service Provider for business clients. The core competences of the company have always been classical web and IT services like Managed Hosting, Hosted Exchange 2010, Virtualisation, Colocation, CDN-, VPN and Security Services. dogado Internet GmbH was founded in 2001 and transformed into a GmbH (Limited Liability Company in Germany) in 2006. Today dogado has more than 10.000 clients around the globe and is member of the RIPE Network Coordination Centre, of DENIC eG, NIC.AT and the OpenCarrier consortium. More informations can be found on www.dogado.de/en/
Quick Update
So the first day of the Parallels Summit is over. Basically, a bit of networking and getting oriented. But today it starts for real.
I’ll be updating this post as the day goes on with info, updates and cool stuff from the conference.
Watch this space for updates.
Exciting Week!
There is so much going on this week, but I’ll keep it short.
I’m not even sure where to start considering that if I say too much… I’ll be leaking some very important announcements before they are supposed to go out.
But… I’ve never been a “by the book” kind of guy.
Parallels Summit
This week, starting today, we are at the Parallels Summit in Orlando. We didn’t choose the location, but we like the idea. (I’ll be posting photos on Facebook as we go)
A few of us from Jelastic will be speaking–Ruslan, our CEO; Dmitry, our Chief Technical Strategist; and me.
If you didn’t see my guest blog post on the Parallels Blog, you can check it out here.
The Good Stuff…
Now for the stuff I said I would be leaking…
- We are releasing our pricing this week–maybe even today
- We are announcing support for another huge product
Play! in the Cloud
You’ve been waiting for it…
And now, it’s here!
We have great news for you: Jelastic now supports Play framework! Thanks to all of our active users, this great feature is now available in Jelastic PaaS. Play! is one of the most popular frameworks out there. It is written in Java and helps developer build Web application more easily with Java and Scala.
So let’s get to it. Let’s deploy your Play! application to Jelastic right now!
1. Create the environment
1. Go to jelastic.com and sign up if you haven’t done so yet, or log in with your Jelastic credentials by clicking the Sign In link on the page.
2. Ask Jelastic to create a new environment.
3. In the Environment Topology window, pick your application server (for example, Tomcat 6) and the database you want to use (for example MySQL). Then type your environment name, for example, playframework.
It will take just a minute for your environment to be created.
2. Configure database
1. Click the Open in browser button for MySQL.
2. When you created your environment, Jelastic sent you an email with credentials to the database. Create a user account and the database using these credentials.
Don’t forget to upload MySQL connector to the lib folder and restart Tomcat!
3. Create an application
1. Go to the playframework.org and download the latest Play! framework version.
2. Unzip the package you have just downloaded.
3. Run Play framework using command line (C:\play on Windows,~/play on Linux):
4. Install Jelastic’s module on Play:
5. Once the module is successfully installed create a new application with Jelastic support:
6. Once your application is created change the application.conf file of your project (play-1.2.4\jelasticapp\config). Uncomment the part of file which includes Jelastic Account configuration and change all the required strings to the following:
jelastic.api.login=yourmail@domain.com
jelastic.api.password=yourpassword
jelastic.api.context=ROOT
jelastic.api.environment=playframework
jelastic.api.apihoster=api.jelastic.com
7. In this file, uncomment full JDBC configuration and change the database URL, driver, user and password according to your database:
db.url=jdbc:mysql://mysql-playframework.jelastic.com/jelasticapp
db.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
db.user=jelasticapp
db.pass=jelasticapp
8. Increase db.pool.timeout to 10000 ms in connections pool configuration of application.conf file:
db.pool.timeout=15000
9. Create your application as you usually do.
10. Deploy your application to Jelastic cloud:
The PaaS: continuing the evolution of the Cloud
This is part of a guest post that I wrote for the Parallels Blog in light of the Parallels Summit starting this next week.
2012 has for a long time been associated with a whole range of different eschatological beliefs, the common theme being that 2012 will be the end of the world. But, if we are still here at the end of this year, I believe that we will be able to look back and see this year as groundbreaking in a number of ways. This will be the year of all things mobile, HTML5 and 4G, and to a growing number of people, the real year of the Cloud.
Though many people out there are still debating the safety of the Cloud and worry about the implementation of it (see Symantec’s recent “State of the Cloud” survey), 
the truth is that once something has made it past “early adopters” (generally this group includes developers) and is working its way through the “early and late majorities” (Roger’s Innovation Adoption Curve) it is going mainstream. If anything, right now, the Cloud is going through the fast acceleration of Roger’s S-curve and not the traditional adoption Bell Curve: there was a period of slow adoption until the social and technical factors aligned for its explosive growth.
All that said, if anything, last year (2011) was the year of the Cloud. Although that can be debated, the truth is that this year is the year of the Platform-as-a-Service. There are a number of reasons for this; foremost among them is the fact that the PaaS is the next step in the evolution of computing, and more specifically, the Cloud.
Without the Cloud, the PaaS as we are seeing it could not exist, but even more than that, the PaaS takes all the advantages of the Cloud and makes them available in a way that eliminates the need for the end user to have to manage any lower level resources or infrastructure. The automation that the Cloud allows for is realized in its proper form with the PaaS.
There are number indicators that support this, from the more mainstream web-centric platforms like Amazon.com, Google, YouTube, Facebook, iTunes and Twitter, to some of the up and coming PaaS that will be game changers for the developer and the product manager, like Google App Engine, Engine Yard, DotCloud and Jelastic.
As more and more developers become aware of the benefits of the PaaS, the move away from the traditional model towards the new, web-centric, browser based model will accelerate. That trend has already started, developers want to be able to focus on what’s important to them—functionality of their application—and not have to worry about the underlying structure. Web hosting providers can take advantage of this by focusing on what they are good at—providing and managing computing resources and infrastructure, servers and hosting, and support for those resources—and then providing a PaaS that users want.
2012 is the year of the PaaS. The Cloud has allowed it to happen. As more and more end users and service providers jump on the bandwagon, the opportunity to take advantage of the developers need for the PaaS will only grow.
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