Case Study: Zillow achieves high-availability, scalable growth with MySQL Cluster (MySQL)

Zillow.com Deploys MySQL Cluster for High Growth with High Availability

Zillow.com is an online real estate community launched in 2006 that quickly grew into one of the most-visited property sites, combining Zestimate home valuations with community data and Q&A. Rapid traffic and expanding data needs created a challenge: the company needed a low-latency, highly reliable web database that could scale horizontally to handle massive, real-time workloads without costly hardware.

Zillow deployed MySQL Cluster as a high-availability, low-latency transactional database on inexpensive hardware, using MySQL’s replication and clustering for linear scale-out and relying on MySQL professional services for prototyping and capacity planning. The solution supports over 4 million unique monthly visitors, delivers high availability and throughput, enabled smooth, cost-effective growth, and is being evaluated for additional applications.

Zillow

Brian Milnes

Director of IT Operations