For those not familiar with Collaborate, it’s the big community conference for Oracle users – this year it’s in Orlando from April 10th through 14th (I’ve just checked the weather forecast, 29 Celsius vs. -18 at the last conference I presented at – OOW Beijing in December – what a difference 4 months and 8,000 miles make!).

I’ll be presenting on MySQL Cluster in a session called “Building Highly Available Scalable Real-Time Services with MySQL Cluster” where I’ll focus on:

• Basics of MySQL Cluster – what it does, who uses it and why
• Accessing your data – SQL and NoSQL access methods
• Latest features
• What’s coming in the …

(Note that this is a copy of the original article from Hasham Pathan posted on 21st April 2009).

Summary of Results:

We recently conducted a Performance Benchmark of the newly released version of MySQL Cluster database software version 7.0 using the DBT2 Benchmark. The results are very impressive.

Highlight of the results:

• For 4 Node Cluster, we achieved 251,000 Transactions per minute which is more than 4X improvement over the MySQL Cluster 6.3 release.
• For 2 Node Cluster, we achieved 143,000 Transactions per minute which is more than 4X improvement over the MySQL Cluster 6.3 release.
• Whether a user is looking to take advantage of the latest multi-core, multi-thread server processors, or is seeking to reduce space and energy consumption of their Cluster hardware, MySQL Cluster …

Oracle University has added a new course to its training catalog “Introduction to MySQL 5.5″ which is a day-long seminar. The seminar goes into some detail on many aspects of using MySQL and of course pays particular attention to the new features in MySQL 5.5. I’ve reviewed the material and can assure you that there is plenty of it!

Of most relevance to this blog is the overview of MySQL Cluster (which isn’t a big focus of the seminar as Cluster is currently using MySQL 5.1) and MySQL replication – the highest profile 5.5 feature being asynchronous replication which can make sure that zero updates are lost even if the master fails catastrophically.

At the time of writing, neither the on-line and instructor-led sessions have been scheduled and so you should register an interest here. When OU have …

MySQL Cluster originates from a product called Network DataBase from Ericson Telco, located on Swedish.  Ericson’s intention was to have a database running on network as a service. Today’s MySQL Cluster have its name NDB due to the original technology name. For example, the name of the Storage Engine used connected to MySQL Server is [...]

CMON 1.1.4 - the Cluster Monitor and Manager has recently been released and here is a little how to about how to install from binary and source (at the end), deployment etc. If you use RPMs, you should follow the install guide here.


1. Download the cmon binary package to a monitoring host
Currently there are binaries available for Linux 64-bit and 32-bit (statically linked) and works for MySQL Cluster 7.0.9 and later 7.0.x versions and also 7.1.x.

In this case the monitoring host will be on 'ndb05' (IP address 10.0.1.5) - see 9. Suggested Deployment for a picture describing the setup.

The Monitoring machine should have installed:

The binary version for MySQL Cluster 7.1.10 has now been made available at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/

A description of all of the changes (fixes) that have gone into MySQL Cluster 7.1.10 (compared to 7.1.9a) can be found in the official MySQL Cluster documentation.

It is that time of year again when the mobile communications industry converges on Barcelona for what many regard as the premier telecommunications show of the year.

Starting on February 14th, what better way for a Brit like me to spend Valentines Day with 50,000 mobile industry leaders (my wife doesn't tend to read this blog, so I'm reasonably safe with that statement).

As ever, Oracle has an extensive presence at the show, and part of that presence this year includes MySQL.

We will be running a live demonstration of the MySQL Cluster database on Booth 7C18 in the App Planet.

The demonstration will show how the MySQL Cluster Connector …

It is that time of year again when the mobile communications industry converges on Barcelona for what many regard as the premier telecommunications show of the year.

Starting on February 14th, what better way for a Brit like me to spend Valentines Day with 50,000 mobile industry leaders (my wife doesn't tend to read this blog, so I'm reasonably safe with that statement).

As ever, Oracle has an extensive presence at the show, and part of that presence this year includes MySQL.

We will be running a live demonstration of the MySQL Cluster database on Booth 7C18 in the App Planet.

The demonstration will show how the MySQL Cluster Connector …

The recording of this webinar is now available to view on-line here.

There will be a live webinar on Wednesday January 12 describing the new ways that you can manage MySQL Cluster (with a bit of monitoring thrown in). As always, the webinar is free but you need to register here. The event is scheduled for 09:00 Pacific / 17:00 UK / 18:00 Central European time but if you can’t make the live webinar it’s still worth registering so that you’re emailed the replay after the event.

By their very nature, clustered environments involve more effort and resource to administer than standalone systems, and the same is true of MySQL Cluster, the database designed for web-scale throughput with carrier-grade availability.

In this webinar, we will present an …

Do not forget the What's New in Managing MySQL Cluster webinar on Wednesday the 11th. Learn about NDBINFO, MySQL Cluster Manager, and MySQL Cluster Adviser & Graphs -- three new enhancements. And the webinar is free!

Please register at http://mysql.com/news-and-events/web-seminars/display-599.html