In the case of NDB Cluster, an SQL node is a traditional MySQL server that uses the NDBCLUSTER storage engine. Management Nodes: Manage the configuration and monitoring the other nodes within the NDB ...

NDB Cluster integrates the standard MySQL server with an in-memory clustered storage engine called NDB (which stands for “Network DataBase”). In our documentation, the term NDB refers to the part of ...

Dealing with MySQL across multiple geographies is complex at best. It is not reasonable to set up an NDB cluster with nodes in separate data centers. Even if there is dedicated bandwidth between the ...

Mikael Ronström is the inventor and lead developer of NDB Cluster, an open-source distributed database underlying the MySQL Cluster platform.

MySQL Cluster did offer a similar direct-access capability before through another API called NDB (network database). That API was proprietary to Oracle, however.

Oracle has announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.2 as a GPL download, and claims to have achieved a benchmark of 1 billion queries per minute and 110 million updates per minute on ...