If you're considering using MySQL Cluster, you might be tempted to try it out on one of your existing databases. MySQL Cluster 7.3 (available as a development release at the time of this post) supports foreign keys, so it seems sensible to try migrating an InnoDB database with foreign keys to MySQL Cluster.

What won't work For this example, I'm using the world_innodb.sql script available from the MySQL sample databases. It's a simple database with three tables: Country, City, and CountryLanguage. Both City and CountryLanguage have foreign keys referencing the Country table's Code field.

So, you might try something like this:

ALTER TABLE Country ENGINE=NDB;
ALTER TABLE City ENGINE=NDB;
ALTER …

The on-demand webinar for the MySQL Cluster 7.3 Development Release is now available.

You can learn more about the design, implementation and getting started with all of the new MySQL Cluster 7.3 features from the comfort and convenience of your own device, including:

- Foreign Key constraints in MySQL Cluster

- Node.js NoSQL API 

- Auto-installation of higher performance distributed, clusters

We received some great questions over the course of the webinar, and I wanted to share …

Summary (aka TL/DR):

Support for Foreign Key constraints has been one of the most requested feature enhancements for MySQL Cluster. We are therefore extremely excited to announce that Foreign Keys are part of the first Labs Release of MySQL Cluster 7.3 – available for download, evaluation and feedback now! (Select the mysql-cluster-7.3-labs-June-2012 build)

In this blog, I will attempt to discuss the design rationale, implementation, configuration and steps to get started in evaluating the first MySQL Cluster 7.3 Labs Release.

Pace of Innovation

It was only a couple of months ago that we announced the General …

About any product, be it computer hardware, software or any other product, has features that are annoying to some of us. But few products has so many features that are annoying to just about everyone as computer software. And among computer software, database software in particular seems to to have these features, which some people seems to like, and some just find annoying. And then there are features, or lack of them or implementation specific details that seems to annoy just about everyone. Things that work in a partuicular way because someone, somewhere, in some distant universe, had the notion that this was a good thing. Often features relating back to ancient times. And sometimes features that you just know work in a weirdo way because the person, if it was a person, figuring out the feature of the implementation of it, really must have been smoking something that is illegal in many parts of the world. Which is not to say that these features …