A great way to install MySQL when you need to do quick tests is to use a sandbox tool. This allows you to perform all the installation steps with a single command making the whole process very simple, and it …
In MySQL NDB Cluster, the management node (ndb_mgmd) is a lightweight process that among other things handles the configuration of the cluster. Since it is lightweight. It can be tempting to install it with one of the other nodes. However, …
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MySQL NDB Cluster has great support for online (inplace) schema changes, but it is still sometimes necessary to perform an offline (copying) ALTER TABLE. These are relatively expensive to make as the entire table is copied into a new table …
A common problem when you need to set up a new database instance is to import the initial data. This can particularly be an issue, if you are converting an existing database so there is a large amount of data …
MySQL NDB Cluster 7.6: Fast Import with ndb_import Read more »
Today – 31 March – is world backup day, so I thought I would write a little about backups in MySQL NDB Cluster. Just because NDB Cluster offers built-in redundancy and high availability does not mean backups are not important. …
I have had the opportunity to write a blog for Apress with a brief introduction to MySQL NDB Cluster. The blog gives a brief overview of the history and why you should consider it. The architecture is described before some …
It is with great pleasure, I can announce that a new book dedicated to MySQL NDB Cluster has just been released. The book Pro MySQL NDB Cluster is written by my colleague Mikiya Okuno and myself and is a nearly …
This post was originally published on the MySQL Support Team Blog at https://blogs.oracle.com/mysqlsupport/entry/working_around_mysql_cluster_push on 5 August 2016. I worked on an issue recently where a query was too slow when executed in MySQL Cluster. The issue was that Cluster has …
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MySQL Cluster 7.3 went GA yesterday and with it came a new member of the MySQL Cluster API family: mysql-js – a native Node.js connector. mysql-js uses the NDB API to connect directly to the data nodes which improves performance …
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