Overview
Heimdall Proxy for Inxpress - Customer Story
When upgrading beyond MySQL 5.7, you lose query caching. Learn how Inxpress (Global shipping platform) implemented the Heimdall Proxy for caching. No code changes!
Heimdall Proxy for Inxpress - Customer Story
Heimdall Proxy Architectural Diagram
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Who: Developers, DBAs, Architects; Security and Compliance Engineers
What: Improving database scale and security requires application changes. The Heimdall Proxy removes this operational burden. Our proxy is a data access layer that intelligently routes, caches and secures queries for your current database. To meet regulatory compliance, we support: 1) Active Directory Enforcement and 2) One-click audit reports, with an approval chain workflow. Deploy as an EC2 proxy tier
Why:
- Certified Amazon RDS & Redshift "Service Ready" Partner
- Improve scale 20x and reduce database costs 50%
- Secure data access for SOX, SOC 2, PCI, FINRA, and SoD compliance
- Database neutral (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, MariaDB, Oracle)
- No application or database changes
We offer 3 feature editions to fit your database proxy needs:
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Heimdall Proxy Enterprise Edition:
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Heimdall Proxy Enterprise Plus Edition:
- Includes all Enterprise Edition features (above)
- Database PAM integration for AuditingÂ
- Database Firewall (Data masking, GDPR auditing, Honey-token)Â
- Multi-tenant query routing for SaaS platformsÂ
- Includes a 30-day free trial, sign up hereÂ
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Heimdall Proxy Standard Edition:
- Single proxy deployment only
- Query Caching, Read/Write Split, & Connection Pooling
- Best-effort technical support
- Generally used for non-production testing
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Highlights
- Read/Write split for ACID compliance
- Automated SQL results caching for Amazon ElastiCache
- Active Directory Authentication & Authorization
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
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c5.xlarge Recommended | $2.75 |
r5a.large | $1.50 |
r5.2xlarge | $4.00 |
r7a.large | $1.50 |
c5n.large | $1.50 |
m5.xlarge | $2.75 |
m5.2xlarge | $4.00 |
r5.xlarge | $2.75 |
r5.4xlarge | $7.00 |
c5n.2xlarge | $4.00 |
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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On initialization, the default account of "admin" will be created for use on the GUI on HTTP://<instance IP address>:8087, using the Amazon Instance ID password. SSH access is provided as normal for Amazon Linux 2.
For more information, go to: https://demoa.heimdalldata.com:8443/docs/environment/aws.htmlÂ
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Customer reviews
Incredible product, amazing support
As our application scaled in complexity and in adoption, we quickly realized that we'd be running into serious bottlenecks with RDS. We looked into scaling and complex replication options, but soon realized that it just would not make financial sense.
We are thankful to have found Heimdall at a time when scaling became a focus area for us. Heimdall's solution helped us dramatically reduce the direct reliance on RDS while simultaneously improving our platform's performance.
The biggest wins for us have been:
- Reduced our RDS costs by 55% (compared a year after implementation)
- Improved application performance by approximately 80%
- Having not a vendor, but a partner in the journey to effective and feasible scaling.
I am not sure how we would have been able to scale our platform without Heimdall, especially in the critical cash-strapped arena that often defines startups.
A huge bravo to Roland and Erik!
Powerful product and great support
Heimdall's SQL-aware read/write splitting enabled us to use read replicas in our Aurora cluster very quickly with no application code changes required. Also their technical support spent a generous amount of time helping us get the configuration right for our use case. Thank you!
it's very useful
Heimdall helped us to utilize our RDS read replica, caching the queries. have full control of our DB tables in terms of caching balancing....
I highly recommend it for any system facing downtime or DB performance issues.