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Is cloud the source of your database-driven application? The Xeround company and its investors, who have just been established, think the answer is yes.

So far, Xeround has raised a capital of 38,800,000 dollars, the latest round is last week's C series, raising 9,300,000 of dollars. Xeround Company has developed a cloud database as a service technology using the open source MySQL database. The company has a wide range of partners, including Amazon and Rackspace, which helps promote Xeround's market acceptance. This June Xeround service officially became a universally available, extended MySQL platform.

Asked about Xeround's latest round of money-use plans, Xeround's http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/32086.html "> CEO Razi Sharir told Internetnew.com that the funds were planned to expand cloud services.

"In the next few quarters you will see more and more platform services (PaaS) providers choose our database." "Sharir said.

Sharir points out that he has a passion for PAAs, because he hopes that over time they will expand their share of developer and enterprise development. He added that the plan aims to make Xeround the core background database for most PAAs products within the next 6 months.

From a revenue point of view, Sharir points out that companies are still in the early stages, and their focus is on the company's future earnings. He said that at first he was not very accurate about the key performance metrics of the database. Initially Xeround predicted that they would use a 0~50GB database to penetrate the market. It turns out that in the cloud development environment, most database sizes are 0~10GB.

"Our fee model is pay-per-view, you use more, you pay more," Sharir said. "In the next few months, we will introduce additional fee models, such as tiered pricing models, to better meet the needs of everyone."

Tiered pricing can be part of a fixed price, and the remainder is paid by the time.

"We are exploring a fee model that is better adapted to what we have seen so far in all scenarios, and of course it affects our revenue." "Sharir said.

From the point of view of user conversion, Sharir said that both the adoption and the transaction are very strong. He points out that the conversion rate for paid subscribers from trial to Xeround is more than 10%.

As for who is using cloud database as a service, Sharir says users all over the world.

"We haven't found a specific usage scenario that is extremely adaptable," he said. Sharir said: "On the other hand, we have found that we do not support the use of scenarios only data warehousing and business intelligence." ”

Sharir explains that the Xeround database is a distributed structure, which means that if a user wants a full table scan from multiple resources, it can take a long time. This, he adds, includes both the business-to-business and the iphone apps and games.

The market for databases as a service is gradually expanding, and Oracle and VMware have entered the market in recent months. Take VMware, they are using the PostgreSQL database, Sharir points out that this is not as Xeround MySQL.

"Most of the time PostgreSQL is viewed as an open source alternative to Oracle or Microsoft SQL, which is more of a database for enterprise, private data center types." "From the perspective of the Web cloud, we have temporarily abandoned the Enterprise version," Sharir said. ”

Sharir says Xeround's customer base, which used to be MySQL or have a need for MySQL in the cloud. He emphasized that Xeround is fully compatible with open source MySQL. At the same time, on the basis of open source, Xeround increased scalability, usability, and performance improvements.