Heimdall Proxy Standard Edition

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Heimdall's database proxy immediately solved a scaling issue without any code changes, which is a huge plus. It was easy to set up and contains a lot of options and features to fine tune for your specific need. They also provide very quick support with helpful suggestions on how to add redundancy and scalability to the proxy itself.

The query analyzer tool has also helped us further optimize our platform by easily identifying problem areas without additional integration. The entire installation took less than a day from signing up to finished implementation.

All of this at very competitive pricing.

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!

Heimdall Data are really great it gives you flexibility on the configurations and reduces overhead on our databases. Our application improves a lot thanks to heimdall. Support are quick and they are very helpful big thumbs up to Heimdall Data Support.

Heimdall proxy reduces the number of back-end connections to Amazon RDS saves resources and improves database scale! The Heimdall proxy can reduce connections at a 1000:1 ratio. as well as they have great support. keep it up, guys 👍👍

The Heimdall team was great to work with! The caching, pooling, console interface, everything about this software puts it into a league of its own. Definitely plenty of value!

Heimdall Data solved a problem I had with using AD credentials in Aurora PostgreSQL without Kerberos. Their support is amazing and would bend over backwards to make sure everything was perfect. I can't recommend this product enough.

Heimdall is definitely worth your time to check out, and by using this AMI you can get right into testing and bypass all the tedious procurement red tape that's weighing on the back of your mind right now. It's a very cool technology with a lot of potential. It can eliminate downtime from failover events. You can use it to greatly improve performance on many kinds of SQL queries, shrink your AWS footprint, or cut back on high DBMS licensing costs. The performance and analytics tools are very handy and the SQL firewall adds a lot of flexibility for tightening up security. Setup is pretty straightforward and their team is very helpful and responsive through the whole process. It's not quite a 1 size fits all solution but they've done a very good job with it and it will work great across a wide variety of environments.

I had the pleasure of working with the Heimdall Team. The product help with a flawless event. In 2019 we experienced a very large spike on the RDS Server causing the site to become unavailable for a 2 hour period.

We implemented the Heimdal Proxy in 2020 and our RDS server did not peak above 4% during the entire event. We have since lowered the size of the RDS instance which has lowered our overall AWS cost by $1600 per month.

Our mysql based saas plattform has its peak periods in november and december.

We realised in the middle of the year that we would need to integrate read-write splitting in order to be able to cope with the expected traffic on our systems without totally oversizing our MySQL aurora setup. The task turned out to be not as easy and a quick turn around in achieving this would not be possible.

Heimdall enabled read write splitting and thus enabled us to downscale the aurora instance sizes by 50% and at the same time we had the "elasticity" in the reader databases scaling in and out to cover peak periods.

The added benefit came in the query caching with elastic ache redis which drastically speeded up the responsiveness of the system. This was a real Bonus of the Heimdall System.

We now have 2 Heimdall Proxies managed by a worker (controller).

Analysing the cost benefits of the system we can break it down as follows:
- Decreased aurora cost by nearly 40%
- Increased cost of the Heimdall cluster, network loadbalancer, extra redis cache

I would say we are now running at 15% less total cost but have the huge burden of read write splitting solved, plus the advantages gained of the query cache in Redis.

The company also provides excellent support as the setup especially when you go to the clustermode to achieve high availability, is not that easy. They helped us all the way! You really feel that they are experts in their domain.

Overall – I highly recommend the software if you need a quick fix to read write splitting.