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 …

Update: You can now download a recording of the webinar and the slides from http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/on-demand-webinars/display-od-403.html

I’ll be presenting the fourth (and final) session of the MySQL for Online Applications webinar series today (29 September). Today’s High Availability Architectures for Online Applications webinar covers:

• MySQL Replication
• MySQL Cluster
• Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD)
• Other high-availability technologies

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A new case study has been published that describes how and why Mapion adopted MySQL Cluster as the real-time, mission critical database for their Mapion Mobile applications.

Mapion adopted MySQL Cluster Databse because it allows for the availability of existing applications through its ’shared-nothing’ distributed architecture with no single point of failure, to meet Mapion’s mission-critical application requirements of 99.999% availability. This is coupled with automatic data partitioning with load balancing, which allows almost unlimited database scalability for the company. Mr. Takashi Ando comments, “Some databases supported clusters when we previously reviewed our database technology, but they were hard to operate and would have increased costs substantially. We found ourselves in a completely different situation when planning the introduction of the new system. MySQL Cluster Database had made it possible to construct a highly …

MySQL/Sun have releases a new white paper…

Do you want to ensure that your Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) infrastructure will scale to support your business growth? As network use grows and services become more dynamic, limitations can occur which add administrative overhead, inhibit flexible scaling and impact the timely synchronization of data across the AAA environment. To address these challenges, Sun has collaborated with the FreeRADIUS server team, the most widely deployed RADIUS server in the world, to integrate the carrier-grade, real-time MySQL Cluster database with the FreeRADIUS Server. Delivering Scalable Authentication Services: Get the whitepaper now! Attend Webinar Download our free whitepaper “Delivering Scalable and Highly Available Authentication, Authorization and Accounting Services” now to better understand: • The concepts of current data storage solutions for AAA environments and their …

The binaries for MySQL Cluster 6.3.26 have now been released and can be downloaded from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/6.3.html

A description of all of the changes (fixes) that have gone into MySQL Cluster 6.3.26 (compared to 6.3.25) can be found in the MySQL_Cluster_6_3_26_ChangeLog.

The binaries for MySQL Cluster 7.0.7 have now been released and can be downloaded from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/7.0.html

A description of all of the changes (fixes) that have gone into MySQL Cluster 7.0.7 (compared to 7.0.6) can be found in the MySQL Cluster 7.0.7 Change Log.

Update: As explained in “MySQL Cluster 7.0.7 binaries released” you can now download the compiled binaries for your particular platform. I am going to leave this entry in place as it will hopefully be useful for future releases but for 7.0.7 you should refer to that other post.

You’ll need to wait for the pre-built binaries but you can now download the source code and build it for yourself to get started. This article explains where to get it and how to build, install and test the installation.

In this example, I’ve used Ubuntu.

The first step is to download the compressed tar ball containing the source code by pointing your browser to …

Following requests received during earlier MySQL Cluster webinars, a new (and as always, free) webinar has been scheduled which focuses on MySQL Cluster Replication. The webinar is scheduled for Thursday 10 September and you can register at http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/web-seminars/display-415.html

I’ll be on-line during the webinar, answering questions.

Details….

MySQL Cluster: Geographic Replication Deep-Dive

Thursday, September 10, 2009

MySQL Cluster has been deployed into some of the most demanding web, telecoms and enterprise / government workloads, supporting 99.999% availability with real time performance and linear write scalability.

Tune into this webinar where you can hear from the Director of MySQL Server Engineering provide a detailed “deep dive” …

If you  have asynchronous replication where the slave database is using MySQL Cluster then you can use the NDB API events functionality to mask/overwrite data. You might do this for example if the replica is to be used for generating reports where some of the data is sensitive and not relevant to those reports. Unlike stored procedures, NDB API events will be triggered on the slave.

The first step is to set up replication (master->slave rather than multi-master) as described in Setting up MySQL Asynchronous Replication for High Availability).

In this example, the following table definition is used:

mysql> use clusterdb;
mysql> create table ASSETS (CODE int not null primary key, VALUE int) engine=ndb;

The following code should be compiled and then executed on a node …

This article shows how to create a MySQL-plugin that can be used to create a function which can in turn be used in stored procedures. The function will produce an integer value representing the time (to the nearest usec).

I’m working on an article for conflict detection/resolution when using MySQL Cluster asynchronous replication which requires an integer column to store a timestamp for comparison purposes. In fact, it doesn’t actually need the timestamp to represent an absolute or even a relative point in time – all it cares about is that the if the function is called twice on 2 different hosts that the 2nd call will always result in a larger number than the 1st. Obviously, in a production environment the times on the 2 hosts would need to be kept in sync.

The c code (inttime.c)

#include <mysql.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

my_bool inttime_init(UDF_INIT *initid,UDF_ARGS *args, char *message) {
  return 0;
} …