June 19, 2013

Post: Tutorial Insights for Percona Live, London

… and Yves Trudeau will run NDB Cluster Tutorial which is full day in depth tutorial focused on NDB Cluster/MySQL Cluster technology which is rapidly… MySQL Cluster installations. Yves is perhaps one of the most experienced MySQL Cluster consultants in United States, having worked with MySQL Cluster deployments…

Comment: Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster (alpha release)

… additional knowledge for DBA is required to run XtraDB Cluster than NDB Cluster. MySQL NDB Cluster is totally different engine than MySQL Replication ○ Requires changes… diagnostic and troubleshooting ○ expensive to deploy and maintain Percona XtraDB Cluster has: ○ Minimal entry barrier for one who switches from MySQL…

Comment: Is VoltDB really as scalable as they claim?

… node (data nodes) MySQL Cluster. That’s the largest NDB Cluster I’ve heard of so far. Even if NDB allows some hundred nodes in the configuration file, I was still impressed to hear about such a large cluster actually… as a reminder: Just like with VoltDB, MySQL Cluster nodes form a single cluster, a single consistent database with transparent sharding. All…

Comment: Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution – The questions

… Zed, NDB cluster does not really make sense for Data warehouse applications. There was a discussion on what is good for cluster on… out the thread that starts here: http://lists.mysql.com/cluster/6960. In terms of performance versus Oracle RAC I think… the thread sums up rather well what scales well with NDB.

Comment: Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution – The questions

Hi all, MySQL NDB Cluster is not 99.999% (aka 5 9s) uptime. 5 9s … caveats. Example: talking about cluster again, it’s storage is limited by the amount of memory the NDB nodes have. Storing data…

Comment: Predicting Performance improvements from memory increase

…, The NDB engine supports data on disk and in memory. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-cluster-disk-data.html The important factor to consider when upgrading memory on an NDB Cluster is that the…

Comment: Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution – The questions

Gerry, NDB cluster can do rolling restarts, so the cluster can stay available during the restart. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-cluster-rolling-restart.html You can also use disk based tables…. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-cluster-disk-data.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5…

Comment: MySQL Partitioning - can save you or kill you

… columns (Strange…??) 2. We are using mysql ndb cluster version Distrib 5.1.56-ndb-7.1.19 (to maintain consistency across the…

Comment: Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution – The questions

… usually acceptable. Even NDB cluster now support replication (row based only) and I have even done some experiments with NDB to InnoDB replication…

Post: Debian / Ubuntu Percona builds

… case. 2. I removed NDB cluster engine from builds, we have not tested combination of our patches with NDB so I really do…