Hi!

Thanks everyone who attended my hands-on lab on MySQL Cluster at MySQL Connect last Saturday.

The following are the links for the slides, the HOL instructions, and the code examples.

I'll try to summarize my HOL below.


Aim of the HOL was to help attendees to familiarize with MySQL Cluster. In particular, by learning:

1. the basics of MySQL Cluster Architecture
2. the basics of MySQL Cluster Configuration and Administration
3. how to start a new Cluster for evaluation purposes and how to connect to it

We started by …

The first day of the first MySQL Connect conference is done.  It's been a busy day!  Many attendees are interested in the new MySQL Server 5.6 release, but of course MySQL Cluster is the main draw here.  After a session from Oracle on the new features in 7.2, and early access features in 7.3, I attended Santo Leto's MySQL Cluster 'hands on lab'.  Despite having started more clusters than most, it felt like a new and exciting experience installing and running my cluster alongside everyone else.  The lab machines had some networking issues, but with Santo's help we seamlessly failed-over to some downloads he'd prepared earlier - very professional!

Afterwards it was my turn to talk on the subject of MySQL Cluster performance.  The quality of the questions was impressive - there seems to be a very capable crowd in San Francisco this …

Tutorial authored by Craig Russell and JD Duncan 

The MySQL Cluster team are working on a new NoSQL JavaScript connector for MySQL. The objectives are simplicity and high performance for JavaScript users:

- allows end-to-end JavaScript development, from the browser to the server and now to the world's most popular open source database

- native "NoSQL" access to the storage layer without going first through SQL transformations and parsing.

Node.js is a complete web platform built around JavaScript designed to deliver millions of client connections on commodity hardware. With the MySQL NoSQL Connector for JavaScript, Node.js users can easily add data access and persistence to their web, cloud, social and mobile applications.

While the initial implementation is designed to plug and play with Node.js, the actual implementation doesn't depend heavily on Node, potentially enabling wider platform support …

Hi!

I'm speaking at MySQL Connect next Saturday, Sep. 29. My Session is a hands-on lab (HOL) on MySQL Cluster.

If you are interested in familiarize a bit with MySQL Cluster this is definitely a session for you.

I will start by briefly introducing MySQL Cluster and its architecture. Then I will guide you through the needed steps to install a local MySQL Cluster, connect to it (using the command line), monitor its logs, and safe shutdown it.

We will hence have a chance to see which are the most common commands using in MySQL Cluster administration (e.g. Cluster backup) as well as the most common operations (e.g. online datanode …

After the GitHub MySQL Failover incident a lot of blogs/people have explained that fully automated failover might not be the most optimal solution.

Fully automated failover is indeed dangerous, and should  be avoided if possible. But a complete manual failover is also dangerous. A fully automated manually triggered failover is probably a better solution.

A synchronous replication solution is also not a complete solution. A split-brain situation is a good example of a failure which could happen. Of course most clusters have all kinds of safe guard to prevent that, but unfortunately also safe guards can fail.

Every failover/cluster should be considered broken unless:

1. You've tested the failover scripts and procedures
2. You've tested the failover scripts and procedures under normal load
3. You've tested the failover scripts and procedures under high load
…

The MySQL Connect conference is only a couple of weeks away, with MySQL engineers, support teams, consultants and community aces busy putting the final touches to their talks.

There will be many exciting new announcements and sharing of best practices at the conference, covering the range of MySQL technologies.

MySQL Cluster will a big part of this, so I wanted to share some key sessions for those of you who plan on attending, as well as some resources for those who are not lucky enough to be able to make the trip, but who can't afford to miss the key news. Of course, this is no substitute to actually being there….and the good news is that registration is still …

On the 8/16 I conducted a webinar titled: "Scale Up vs. Scale Out" (http://www.slideshare.net/ScaleBase/scalebase-webinar-816-scaleup-vs-scaleout):


ScaleBase Webinar 8.16: ScaleUp vs. ScaleOut from ScaleBase
The webinar was successful, we had many attendees and great participation in questions and answers throughout the session and in the end. Only after the webinar it only occurred to me that one specific graphic was missing from the webinar deck. It was occurred to me after answering several audience questions about "the difference between …

My now long-running series of posts on getting max performance from a very simple MySQL Cluster setup (see details here) is continuing here. As a short intro to what I am trying out here, is to see if I can validate the claim that MySQL Cluster / NDB would be a good replacement for a Key Value Store (KVS) such as MongoDB. I test this in a rather simple single-server environment, but this is for a reason, just not a coincidence: The reason is that RAM is getting inexpensive and servers that can take a lot of RAM are also getting less expensive, which in turns means that the saying that many small servers are more cost-effective that few big ones, might not be as valid as it used to be. Also, I wanted to test what MySQL Cluster can do for me, from a KVS centric view. In short, I run on one server (16 Gb RAM, 8 cores) with all data in …

I will double my all-time total of public speaking engagements this September at the MySQL Connect conference in San Fransisco.

The title of my session is "Delivering Breakthrough Performance with MySQL Cluster", and it's between 17:30 and 18:30 on Saturday 29th September.

The content is not finalised yet, so if there's something you would like to hear about which fits with the abstract, then comment below.  If it doesn't fit in with the abstract then we …

With its distributed, shared-nothing, real-time design, MySQL Cluster has attracted a lot of attention from developers who need to scale both read and write traffic with ultra-low latency and fault-tolerance, using commodity hardware. With many proven deployments in web, gaming, telecoms and mobile use-cases, MySQL Cluster is certainly able to meet these sorts of requirements.

But, as a distributed database, developers do need to think a little differently about data access patterns along with schema and query optimisations in order to get the best possible performance.

Sharing best practices developed by working with MySQL Cluster's largest users, we recently ran a Performance …