Anirudh Tamsekar made a post yesterday that laid out a few of the limitations of MySQL Cluster that seem to cause him the most pain. However his assessment of the situation is quite misleading. A few of his statements are inaccurate but more than half of the limitations he cites to are out right false. Since comments on Anirudh's blog are being moderated, I give my rebuttal here, and cite sources.

· Database names, table names, and attribute names cannot be as long in NDB tables as with other table handlers. In NDB, attribute names are truncated to 31 characters, and if they are not unique after truncation, errors occur. Database names and table names can total a maximum of 122 characters

False: "Identifiers. Formerly (in MySQL 5.0 and earlier), database names, table names and attribute names could not be as long for NDB tables as tables using other storage engines, because attribute names were truncated …