I recently hosted hosting a webinar which explained what MySQL Clusrter is, what it can deliver and what the latest developments were. The “Discover the latest MySQL Cluster Developments” webinar is now available to view here. At the end of this article you’ll find a full transcript of the Q&A from the live session.

Details:

View this webinar to learn how MySQL Cluster 7.3, the latest GA release, enables developer agility by making it far simpler and faster to build your products and web-based applications with MySQL Cluster. You’ll also learn how MySQL Cluster and its linear scalability, 99.999% uptime, real-time responsiveness, and ability to perform over 1 BILLION Writes per Minute can …

On Thursday 17th July I’ll be hosting a webinar which explains what MySQL Clusrter is, what it can deliver and what the latest developments are. As always the webinar is free but please register here.

Details:

Join this technical webinar to learn how MySQL Cluster 7.3, the latest GA release, enables developer agility by making it far simpler and faster to build your products and web-based applications with MySQL Cluster. You’ll also learn how MySQL Cluster and its linear scalability, 99.999% uptime, real-time responsiveness, and ability to perform over 1 BILLION Writes per Minute can help your products and applications meet the needs of the most demanding markets. MySQL Cluster combines these …

The binary and source versions of MySQL Cluster 7.3.6 have now been made available at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/.

Release notes

MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3.6 is a new release of MySQL Cluster, based
on MySQL Server 5.6 and including features from version 7.3 of the
NDB storage engine, as well as fixing a number of recently
discovered bugs in previous MySQL Cluster releases.

Obtaining MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3. MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3 source
code and binaries can be obtained from
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/.

For an overview of changes made in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3, see
MySQL Cluster Development in MySQL Cluster …

Highlights: Foreign Keys, NoSQL JavaScript Connector, MySQL 5.6 and Auto-Tuned Clustering
The MySQL team at Oracle are excited to announce the immediate availability of the second MySQL Cluster 7.3 Development Milestone Release (DMR)
Some might call MySQL Cluster 7.3 “the foreign keys release” – and sure enough it is a major engineering achievement to build a distributed database that enforces referential integrity across a shared-nothing cluster, while maintaining ACID compliance and cross-shard JOINs. But MySQL Cluster 7.3 is a lot more as well. 
The design focus has been on enabling developer agility – making it simpler and faster than ever to enhance new services with a highly scalable, fault tolerant, real-time database – with minimum development or operational effort. 
The key enhancements …

This tutorial has been authored by Craig Russell and JD Duncan

The MySQL Cluster team are working on a new NoSQL JavaScript connector for MySQL. The objectives are simplicity and high performance for JavaScript users:

- allows end-to-end JavaScript development, from the browser to the server and now to the world's most popular open source database

- native "NoSQL" access to the storage layer without going first through SQL transformations and parsing.

Node.js is a complete web platform built around JavaScript designed to deliver millions of client connections on commodity hardware. With the MySQL NoSQL Connector for JavaScript, Node.js users can easily add data access and persistence to their web, cloud, social and mobile applications.

While the initial …

The on-demand webinar for the MySQL Cluster 7.3 Development Release is now available.

You can learn more about the design, implementation and getting started with all of the new MySQL Cluster 7.3 features from the comfort and convenience of your own device, including:

- Foreign Key constraints in MySQL Cluster

- Node.js NoSQL API 

- Auto-installation of higher performance distributed, clusters

We received some great questions over the course of the webinar, and I wanted to share …

The first Development Milestone and Early Access releases of MySQL Cluster 7.3 were announced just several weeks ago. To provide more detail and demonstrate the new features, Andrew Morgan and I will be hosting a live webinar this coming Thursday 25th October at 0900 Pacific Time / 16.00 UTC

Even if you can't make the live webinar, it is still worth registering for the event as you will receive a notification when the replay will be available, to view on-demand at your convenience

In the webinar, we will discuss the enhancements being previewed as part of MySQL Cluster …

At this weeks MySQL Connect conference, Oracle previewed an exciting new wave of developments for MySQL Cluster, further extending its simplicity and flexibility by expanding the range of use-cases, adding new NoSQL options, and automating configuration.

What’s new:

• Development Release 1: MySQL Cluster 7.3 with Foreign Keys
• Early Access “Labs” Preview: MySQL Cluster NoSQL API for Node.js
• Early Access “Labs” Preview: MySQL Cluster GUI-Based Auto-Installer

In this blog, I'll introduce you to the features being previewed.

Review the blogs listed below for more detail on each of the specific features discussed.

Save the date!: A live webinar is scheduled for Thursday 25th October at 0900 Pacific Time / …

Tutorial authored by Craig Russell and JD Duncan 

The MySQL Cluster team are working on a new NoSQL JavaScript connector for MySQL. The objectives are simplicity and high performance for JavaScript users:

- allows end-to-end JavaScript development, from the browser to the server and now to the world's most popular open source database

- native "NoSQL" access to the storage layer without going first through SQL transformations and parsing.

Node.js is a complete web platform built around JavaScript designed to deliver millions of client connections on commodity hardware. With the MySQL NoSQL Connector for JavaScript, Node.js users can easily add data access and persistence to their web, cloud, social and mobile applications.

While the initial implementation is designed to plug and play with Node.js, the actual implementation doesn't depend heavily on Node, potentially enabling wider platform support …

Summary (aka TL/DR):

Support for Foreign Key constraints has been one of the most requested feature enhancements for MySQL Cluster. We are therefore extremely excited to announce that Foreign Keys are part of the first Labs Release of MySQL Cluster 7.3 – available for download, evaluation and feedback now! (Select the mysql-cluster-7.3-labs-June-2012 build)

In this blog, I will attempt to discuss the design rationale, implementation, configuration and steps to get started in evaluating the first MySQL Cluster 7.3 Labs Release.

Pace of Innovation

It was only a couple of months ago that we announced the General …