Date: 24-Nov-2009   URL: www.sun.com/software/products/mysql/cluster.jsp

MySQL

Features & Benefits - MySQL Cluster

MySQL Cluster is the industry's leading real-time, highly available database combining the flexibility of a relational database with the low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of open source.


Features & Benefits
MySQL Cluster
  • Delivers 99.999% availability to handle planned and unplanned downtime
  • Flexible "shared nothing" distributed architecture to eliminate any single point of failure
  • Real time, predictable performance to meet your strictest SLAs
  • Linear, On-Line Scalability to handle your most unpredictable workloads
  • Multiple data access methods allowing simple integration with a broad range of applications
  • Open flexibility and 24x7 support for low TCO and complete control


Delivers 99.999% Availability
  • Distributed, shared nothing architecture eliminates single point of failover
  • Synchronous replication to automatically propagate transactions to multiple database nodes
  • Geographic Replication for disaster recovery
  • Self healing with sub-second fail-over to eliminate application downtime
  • Nodes can be stopped or started without impacting the applications

Real Time Performance
  • In-memory and disk based data
  • Limits IO bottlenecks by asynchronously writing transaction logs to disk
  • Response times in the range of a few milliseconds
  • Processes tens of thousands of distributed read and write transactions per second

Linear, On-Line Scalability
  • Automatic data partitioning and load balancing to handle unpredictable workload demands with ease
  • Scale application load and database capacity on-line, with no application downtime
  • User-defined partitioning for complete control

Multiple Data Access Methods
  • Support for SQL, C++, Java, LDAP, HTTP and MySQL Connector access methods directly to the data
  • Simple integration with a vast range of applications

Open Flexibility with 24x7 Support for Low TCO
  • Open source software with support for a broad range of low cost, commodity systems
  • No additional infrastructure such as expensive shared-storage
  • Reduces downtime - the number one contributor to the Total Cost of Ownership of database software
  • Designed to be largely self-governing reducing conflicts with other software and hardware
  • Lowers up-front license costs with affordable commercial licensing
  • Access to extensive consulting, training and support services
 
 
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