SAN JOSE, USA: Continuent, Inc., provider of solutions for continuous data availability, advanced database replication, backup and database performance scalability has announced availability of Continuent Tungsten Community Edition for MySQL.

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Continuent Tungsten offers an easy to manage, dynamic database replication solution with automatic failover, cluster management, high availability and scalability.

Tungsten Community Edition harnesses the latest innovations from the open source database clustering community with no up-front acquisition costs, and provides a clear path to more advanced capabilities through an optional upgrade to the commercial Tungsten Enterprise editions.

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"Continuent Tungsten allows database administrators to implement simple, powerful and affordable data availability and database performance solutions. Our customers significantly lower their TCO on business critical database applications using Tungsten and open source databases," said Eero Teerikorpi, CEO of Continuent. "We are very pleased to offer Continuent Tungsten Community Edition as a free open source solution."

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The release added, all Tungsten components have previously been available as open source, but with Tungsten Community Edition they become far more easily accessible with complete builds, easy installation and configuration together with complete set of documentation.

Tungsten Community Edition is available free of charge, while customers who want more advanced features and on-call technical support are encouraged to purchase the commercial Tungsten Enterprise editions.