Case Study: thePlatform achieves 23x performance gain and over $1M in license savings with MySQL Query Analyzer (MySQL)

thePlatform Migrates Media Publishing System to MySQL and Achieves 23x Performance Gain with the MySQL Query Analyzer

thePlatform is a fast‑growing video management and publishing company whose Media Publishing System (MPS) serves major media customers. As usage and customer counts surged, thePlatform needed to move from proprietary databases to a scale‑out solution to handle higher load, reduce costs, and more quickly diagnose intermittent performance problems that were hard to spot in logs.

thePlatform migrated to MySQL (InnoDB) and adopted MySQL Enterprise tools—notably the MySQL Query Analyzer and Replication Monitor. The Query Analyzer quickly revealed a missing index that cut a problematic query from 70 seconds to 3 seconds (a 23x improvement), enabled faster troubleshooting before production rollouts, and, along with MySQL’s licensing model, helped save over $1M in database costs.

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Phil Hildebrand

Database Manager