The latest from the MySQL community

I have been fairly quiet on my blog for some time. We've been very busy
developing new features for MySQL Cluster 7.5 and ensuring that the
quality is improved even further.

We're now very pleased to release a new version of MySQL Cluster.

MySQL Cluster 7.5 contains a number of new things that makes MySQL
Cluster even better.
1) You can declare a table as a READ_BACKUP table. This means that
the updating transactions will receive the commit acknowledge
a little bit later to ensure that we can always use any of the
replicas for reading. We will use the nearest replica for
committed reads, for locking reads we will still use the primary
replica to avoid deadlocks.

For applications that are mostly read-focused one can make it easier
to set this variable by setting the ndb-read-backup config variable
to 1 in the MySQL Server …