70x faster joins with AQL

The new GA MySQL Cluster 7.2 Release (7.2.4) just announced by Oracle includes 2 new features which when combined can improve the performance of joins by a factor of 70x (or even higher). The first enhancement is that MySQL Cluster now provides the MySQL Server with better information on the available indexes which allows the MySQL optimizer to automatically produce better query execution plans. Previously it was up to the user to manually provide hints to the optimizer. The second new feature is Adaptive Query Localization which allows the work of the join to be distributed across the data nodes (local to the data it’s working with) rather than up in the MySQL Server; this allows more computing power to be applied to calculating the join as well as dramatically reducing the number of messages …