As one of the world’s leading eCommerce Service Providers, Shopatron needed to further improve scalability and availability of their eCommerce services to keep pace with their rapidly growing business, while at the same time, reducing costs.

After extensive evaluations, Shopatron selected MySQL Cluster to power its back-end database, running the entire eCommerce fulfillment engine.

Since deploying MySQL Cluster, Shopatron have achieved:

• continuous service availability with sub-second failover and fully automated recovery
• real-time performance, reducing query times from 3 seconds to 2 milliseconds
• extreme levels of scalability on commodity hardware and open source software
• reduced licensing, support and operational management costs

Tune into this webinar where Shopatron’s CIO/COO and VP of Engineering will both share their experiences and best practices of …

As network use grows and services become more dynamic, so existing Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) environments can struggle to keep pace with demand.

Tune into this webinar where you can hear from the Alan Dekok, one of the founders of the FreeRADIUS project and CEO of Network RADIUS, discuss the concepts and implementation of RADIUS services using the FreeRADIUS server and the MySQL Cluster database to deliver highly available and scalable AAA services.

As always, this webinar is free and you can register here. I will be manning the Q&A during the webinar.

In this session, you will learn about:

• potential AAA limitations as network environments grow
• advantages of deploying FreeRADIUS with MySQL Cluster
• Performance, sizing and deployment of an AAA environment using …

The GA binaries for MySQL Cluster 7.0.8a (the “a” is used to indicate that this is an increment on the original 7.0.8 source release) have been released – download them from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/select.php?id=14

A summary of the changes can be found in the MySQL Cluster 7.0.8a Change Log

OpenLDAP includes a driver that allows it to store and access data held in MySQL Cluster. It uses the NDB-API to access the database and so the performance is extremely good. One of the great things about the solution is that it lets you simultaneously access the same data through both LDAP and SQL (or the NDB-API or any of the MySQL connectors). This article gives an example of how this can be done.

Prerequisites:

This article assumes that you’ve already installed MySQL Cluster  – if that isn’t the case then please first refer to “Creating a simple Cluster on a single LINUX host” or “ …

I'm happy to extend a warm welcome to two new members of the Percona team.

First is Yves Trudeau, about whom I can say many things:

• One of the top MySQL Cluster (NDB Cluster) experts in the world.
• An expert on all things High Availability, including DRBD and Heartbeat.
• Many years of experience with Huge Data.
• Half of the Waffle Grid team.
• A really nice person!

Yves joins us after a tenure of several years as a senior consultant at Sun/MySQL. Together with Matt Yonkovit, he plans to work on WaffleGrid (but as a new project under a new name, to be determined), and integration with XtraDB. Yves lives in Quebec with his family.

Next is Fernando Ipar. Fernando is our first dedicated Shift Support Captain[1]. Fernando specializes in MySQL, GNU/Linux, systems administration, and high availability. Fernando has been involved in computer programming since …

The GA binaries for MYSQL Cluster 7.0.8a have now been released so use those if you can.

The source version for MySQL Cluster 7.0.8a has now been made available at ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/cluster_telco/mysql-5.1.37-ndb-7.0.8a/

This release replaces MySQL Cluster 7.0.8 which has been retired.

You can either wait for the binaries to be released or if you’re in a rush then you can find instructions on building the binaries for yourself in the earlier article: “MySQL Cluster 7.0.7 source released“.

A description of all of the changes …

The source version for MySQL Cluster 6.3.27a has now been made available at ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/cluster_telco/mysql-5.1.37-ndb-6.3.27a/

This release replaces MySQL Cluster 6.3.27 which has been retired.

You can either wait for the binaries to be released or if you’re in a rush then you can find instructions on building the binaries for yourself in the earlier article: “MySQL Cluster 7.0.7 source released“.

A description of all of the changes (fixes) that have gone into MySQL Cluster 6.3.27 (compared to 6.3.26) can be found in theMySQL Cluster 6.3.27a Change Log.

6.3.27a and 7.0.8a source releases are now available from ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/cluster_telco/

The source releases for MySQL Cluster 6.3.27 and 7.0.8 have been withdrawn so that a bug can be fixed; new versions should be out very soon.

6.3.27a source release is now available from ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/cluster_telco/

The source version for MySQL Cluster 6.3.27 has now been made available at ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/cluster_telco/mysql-5.1.37-ndb-6.3.27/

You can either wait for the binaries to be released or if you’re in a rush then you can find instructions on building the binaries for yourself in the earlier article: “MySQL Cluster 7.0.7 source released“.

A description of all of the changes (fixes) that have gone into MySQL Cluster 6.3.27 (compared to 6.3.26) can be found in the …

7.0.8aa source release is now available from ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/cluster_telco/

The source version for MySQL Cluster 7.0.8 has now been made available at ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/cluster_telco/mysql-5.1.37-ndb-7.0.8/

You can either wait for the binaries to be released or if you’re in a rush then you can find instructions on building the binaries for yourself in the earlier article: “MySQL Cluster 7.0.7 source released“.

A description of all of the changes (fixes) that have gone into MySQL Cluster 7.0.8 (compared to 7.0.7) can be found in the …