Mat Keep and I will be presenting this free webinar on Wednesday 14 July.

The MEMORY storage engine has been widely adopted by MySQL users to provide near-instant responsiveness with use cases such as caching and web session management. As these services evolve to support more users, so the scalability and availability demands can start to exceed the capabilities of the MEMORY storage engine.

The MySQL Cluster database, which itself can be implemented as a MySQL storage engine, is a viable alternative to address these evolving web service demands. MySQL Cluster can be configured and run in the same way as the MEMORY storage engine (ie on a single host with no replication and no persistence). As web services evolve, any of these attributes can then be added in any combination to deliver higher levels of scalability, …

Configure MySQL Server nodes for MySQL Cluster

The new version of MySQL Workbench (5.2.25) has just gone GA – see the Workbench BLOG for details.

So what’s the relevance to MySQL Cluster? If you have a Cluster that uses MySQL Servers to provide SQL access then you can now use MySQL Workbench to manage those nodes:

• Start & stop the mysqld processes
• Configure the per-mysqld configuration data held in my.cnf or my.ini

The reason that I describe the support as ‘partial’ is that these MySQL Servers are treated as independent entities (no concept of them being part of a Cluster) and there is currently no way to use it to configure or manage the other Cluster processes (data and management nodes). Having said that, what …

By default, MySQL Cluster sends log data to a file but you can also send it to the console or to Syslog; this article explains how to send it to Syslog. The example given here is for LINUX.

In this example, I’ll use the “user” syslog facility name and so the first step is to make sure that syslog is configured to route those messages. If this hasn’t already been configured then add the following lines to /etc/rsyslog.conf:

# Log user messages to local files
user.*    /var/log/user

For the changes to take effect, restart the syslog service:

[root@ws1 etc]# service rsyslog restart
Shutting down system logger:                               [  OK  ]
Starting system logger:                                    [  OK  ]

Note that you should make those changes as root.

Still as root, start up a stream of  any additions to the new log file:

[root@ws1 etc]# tail -f /var/log/user

…

As part of “MySQL Sunday” at this year’s Oracle Open World, Mat Keep and I will be presenting on the latest MySQL Cluster features. We’ll be presenting at 15:30 (Pacific Time) on 19th September (the event starts with a key note at 12:30).

If you’re attending Oracle Open World then please indicate that you’d like to attend the MySQL Sunday when you register. If you aren’t planning to go to Oracle Open World but will be in the San Francisco area then buying a Discover pass (only $50 if you register by 16 July) will get you into the MySQL Sunday sessions. Register here.

For details on the presentations and speakers, check here.

The replay of this webinar is now available from http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/on-demand-webinars/display-od-545.html

MySQL and memcached has become, and will remain, the foundation for many dynamic web services with proven deployments in some of the largest and most prolific names on the web. There are classes of web services however that are update-intensive, demanding real-time responsiveness and continuous availability. In these cases, MySQL Cluster provides the familiarity and ease-of-use of the regular MySQL Server, while delivering significantly higher levels of write performance with less complexity, lower latency and 99.999% availability. This webinar will discuss the use-cases for both approaches, and provide an insight into how MySQL Cluster is enabling users to scale their update-intensive web services.

The …

Single host Cluster

A series of quick-start guides are now available to get you up and running with MySQL Cluster in as little time as possible; they are available for LINUX/Mac OS X, Windows and Solaris. The configuration is intentionally a simple one – 2 data nodes, 1 management node and 1 MySQL Server. Once you have this up and running, your next experiment may be to extend this over multiple hosts.

Download the Quick Start Guide for your platform below:

• MySQL Cluster Quick Start for Linux – also works for Mac OS X
• …

If you’re in London on Thursday 24th June then there’s a great chance to find out what’s new in MySQL.

Join us for an Oracle MySQL Breakfast Seminar to better understand Oracle’s MySQL strategy and what’s new with MySQL!
Agenda:
09:00 a.m.    Welcome Coffee/Tea
09:30 a.m.    Oracle’s MySQL Strategy
10:00 a.m.    What’s New – The MySQL Server & MySQL Cluster
10.45 a.m.    Coffee/Tea Break
11:00 a.m.    What’s New – MySQL Enterprise & MySQL Workbench
11:45 a.m.    Q&A
12:00 noon    End of the Breakfast Seminar

Cost?
None, it’s a free event! But places are limited and the seminar is held on a first come first served basis, so …

The Pyro Group has selected the MySQL Cluster database to power their InRoam SDP (Service Delivery Platform). InRoam enables Cell C and their network partners to provide low cost, border-less mobile communications services to hundreds of thousands of football fans from around the world as they descend on South Africa for the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament.

This new case study can be downloaded from http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/case-studies/mysql_cs-pyro_telecoms.php

Solution Overview

• Pyro InRoam SDP is an intelligent application enabling subscribers to communicate with ease across borders
• Migrated from a Microsoft platform with SQL Server to offer greater choice and less restrictive licensing
…

A new white paper is available from http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/mysql_wp_cluster_ScalingWebServices.php

MySQL and memcached has become, and will remain, the foundation for many dynamic web services with proven deployments in some of the largest and most prolific names on the web.

There are classes of web services however that are highly transactional and update-intensive, demanding real-time responsiveness and continuous availability. In these cases, MySQL Cluster provides the familiarity and ease-of-use of the regular MySQL Server, while delivering significantly higher levels of write performance with less complexity, lower latency and 99.999% availability.

This whitepaper will discuss the use-cases for both approaches, and provides an insight into how MySQL Cluster is enabling users to scale …

A new customer case-study is available for download from http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/case-studies/mysql_cs-cluster_docudesk_WebServices.php

The DocQ web service eliminates the limitations of sharing physical documents by offering a complete paperless business solution; providing a single place where customers can manage, archive, and send their important documents. DocQ supports secure business transactions and the services to store, edit, collaborate, and publish business documents.

• The database needed to deliver the high levels of write throughput, low latency responsiveness and continuous availability …