General Manager of SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE, Jeff Frick, welcomed the co-founder of Codership, Alex Yurchenko, to speak about his new product, Galera Cluster which, it should be noted, was recognized at this week’s #PerconaLive event with the MySQL Community Award.

Speaking of the derivation of the name for the product, Yurchenko alluded to its Latin roots. “Galera was for galley, a ship with multiple oarsmen.” The significance, he claims, is because oarsmen are required to work together so as not to interlock their oars. “Second, the more you add, the faster it goes,” he said. “We were aiming for scale out. The more nodes you add to the cluster, the faster it goes.”

Recognizing the name referred to both synchronicity and scalability, Frick asked Yurchenko to delve into the tech behind his product. “I’ve been waiting to say this,” Yurchenko began. “For many Galera users, it’s just a replication solution for MySQL. Not that sexy but it’s a generic library. It serializes access to a global resource in a high latency environment.” But where Galera can excel is in working past the cost-prohibitive system of global locks. “If you want to have concurrent global access to your data, Galera is the most efficient way to do that.” Additionally, Yurchenko stated his product is the perfect tool and the only solution that will enable the distribution of keystone data across the entire database.

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The purpose behind the product was to jump into the complex replication space and create a quality new solution. “Replication is never simple but I think we achieved our goal,” Yurchenko stated. It appears the editors of Red Herring agree, having just named Codership a Finalist in the Red Herring Top 100 of Europe, a list selected from among hundreds of the most innovative companies across Europe.

It doesn’t appear that Codership is taking any time to enjoy the peer recognition. Yurchenko shared his future vision for the company. “We are starting now to get some ideas how we can improve Hadoop,” he said. “Currently, there is no good solution for their single point of failure node.” He sees Galera as possessing the capability of making it a multi-cluster. “These are some ideas we are having,” he continued. “Still pretty new.” According to Yurchenko, their future work in this field will be contingent on the acquisition of additional resources, read: capitalization

Moving forward, Codership will be working on fleshing out Galera Cluster and resolving certain limitations they have identified. “I don’t see that as our next big thing,” he claimed. “Just finishing the product. The next big thing will be sharding. We are working on a design of a sharded Galera Cluster.” That, he claims, will address the Big Data challenge for the product which, he admits, was not designed for Big Data. However, he sees a role for the product in the steadily approaching Big Data trend. “The challenge is what keeps us going. I can’t wait to start working on that.”