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

Although you can build clusters in many ways, using combinations of block replication and SAN storage, the official MySQL solutions are replication and NDB (Network DataBase) clusters. Each has pros ...

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 ...