Case Study: Universidad Complutense de Madrid achieves high availability and faster backups with MySQL Enterprise Edition

Universidad Complutense De Madrid boosts uptime and cuts full backups to 35 minutes with MySQL

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) faced challenges with unplanned downtime and performance bottlenecks while using MySQL Community Edition for its critical systems, including the university website and identity management. The lack of high availability and vendor support led to user dissatisfaction. To address this, UCM partnered with MySQL to upgrade to MySQL Enterprise Edition and implement its high availability solution, MySQL InnoDB Cluster.

The solution from MySQL involved consolidating multiple standalone servers into a single InnoDB Cluster, which provided intelligent load balancing via MySQL Router. This implementation delivered maximum availability, scalability for millions of daily connections, and efficient management of peak demand. The measurable results included a drastic reduction in backup times from an entire weekend to just 35 minutes for a 600GB database using MySQL Enterprise Backup, significantly improving service for tens of thousands of users.

Universidad Complutense De Madrid