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MySQL Cluster

Cost-effective, High Availability Database Clustering

“Service availability is the number MySQL Cluster combines the


H I G H L I G H T S
world's most popular open source
one requirement for our broad-
database with a fault-tolerant data-
base clustering architecture so you
■ Cost-effective
band customers. MySQL Cluster
can deliver mission-critical data- ■ 99.999% Availability
delivers the high-availability that base applications with 99.999% ■ Sub-second Failover
enables us to guarantee continu- availability. ■ Linear Scalability
ous DSL and VoIP services to our MySQL Cluster enables you to: ■ High Performance
■ Cost-effectively deliver 5 nines
subscribers. This has had an ■ Easy Administration
availability using parallel server
architecture with no single ■ Support, Services, & Training
immediate impact in significantly
point of failure.
improving customer satisfaction,
■ Deliver the performance and
and has also reduced the cost of high throughput required to Cost Effective
meet the most demanding
operating our network. We now MySQL Clusters enables organiza-
enterprise applications.
have the scalable infrastructure to ■ Incrementally scale your tions to overcome the traditional
applications in a linear fashion cost barriers associated with
aggressively grow our subscriber adopting proprietary high-
as your needs grow without
base and offer new value added having to invest in expensive availability clustering solutions.
hardware. MySQL Cluster reduces high
services.” software costs with an affordable
licensing model. Plus, MySQL
99.999% Availability Cluster makes optimal use of
Lars-Åke Norling
Bredbandsbolaget AB (B2) MySQL Cluster provides a parallel commodity hardware. Finally,
Sweden’s Largest ISP server, fault-tolerant architecture organizations can reduce opera-
that ensures your organization's tions costs by minimizing the need
mission-critical applications for specialized administration.
achieve 99.999% availability. MySQL Cluster is designed to
This means less than 5 minutes be largely self-governing so very
downtime per year, including few system parameters need
scheduled maintenance time. fine-tuning.
MySQL Cluster implements auto-
matic node recovery to ensure
an application automatically fails
over to another storage node that
contains a consistent data set, if
one or more storage nodes fail.
M y S Q L C L U S T E R

High Performance Only a Main


Memory Database Can Deliver
MySQL Cluster provides the
response time and throughput to
meet the most demanding high Macintosh II

volume enterprise applications.


MySQL Cluster achieves its per-
formance advantage by being a
main memory clustered database
Macintosh II

solution, which keeps all data in


memory and limits IO bottlenecks
by asynchronously writing trans- Macintosh II

action logs to disk. Typical


response times for MySQL Cluster
are in the range of a few milli- MySQL Cluster enables organizations to provide highly available
seconds. MySQL Cluster handles applications and services.
tens of thousands of distributed
transactions per second that are
also replicated across storage single point of failure. Any node Learn More About How to
nodes. can be stopped or started without Use MySQL Cluster Today!
stopping the applications that use
the database. And MySQL Cluster Visit www.mysql.com/cluster
Fast Automatic Failover for additional resources.
is highly configurable so you can
MySQL delivers extremely fast implement the appropriate level of
failover time with sub-second performance, scalability and fault
response so your applications can tolerance to match your applica- System Requirements
recover quickly in the event of tion requirements. (minimum)
application, network or hardware OS Linux (RedHat, SUSE),
failure. MySQL Cluster uses syn- Easy-to-use Administration Mac OS X, and Solaris
chronous replication to propagate CPU Intel/AMD x86
transaction information to all the MySQL Cluster includes tools to
Memory 512MB RAM
appropriate database nodes so monitor storage nodes, control
HDD 3GB
applications can automatically fail access to applications, and create
and restore backups. Network 1+ nodes
over to another node extremely (Standard Ethernet - TCP/IP)
quickly. Plus, MySQL Cluster
storage nodes are able to auto- Services and Support
matically restart, recover, and
dynamically reconfigure them- MySQL provides extensive con-
selves in case of failures without sulting, training and technical
having to program advanced support services to ensure the
features into the application. success of your next mission-criti-
cal database application project.
MySQL has a proven track record
No Single Point of Failure gained through millions of suc-
The parallel server architecture cessful customer deployments that
combines storage nodes, can lower your risk and maximize
management server nodes, and return on investment.
MySQL Server nodes that can be
distributed across computers and The World’s Most Popular Open Source Database
geographies to ensure there is no

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