Andrew Morgan on Databases

Oracle have just announced that MySQL Cluster 7.2 is now GA and available for production deployments.

Amongst the highlights for the release are:

• Performance enhancements delivering 1 billion queries per minute, using just 8 data nodes
• 70x higher JOIN performance with Adaptive Query Localization, enabling real-time analytics across live data sets
• New NoSQL API via Memcached, creating a persistent, key-value datastore for schema and schemaless data
• Auto-sharding across data centers with synchronous replication for scaling of highly available, global services
• Simplified ease-of-use with new options for on-premise and cloud deployments
• Integration with the latest MySQL 5.5 GA release

You can find more of the details on this release together with links to lots of resources from this MySQL Dev-Zone article – “MySQL Cluster 7.2 GA Released, Delivers 1 BILLION Queries per Minute”