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MySQL Clustering Software Launched

Posted by timothy on from the englobulate-positively dept.

lawrencekhoo writes "MySQL AB announced yesterday that software for building a MySQL Cluster will be available for download by the end of April. Articles available from Computerworld, Internetnews, Linux Electrons, and PHP Architect. Great! Now my website can finally have 99.99% availability ..."

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  1. set nitpicking = on by InsaneCreator · · Score: 1, Interesting

    MySQL Cluster combines the world's most popular open source database with a fault tolerant database

    It's nice to start out a press release with a lie, isn't it? As far as I know, the title of the world's most popular open source database (meaning it has the most installs around the world) belongs to the Berkley DB.

    1. Re:set nitpicking = on by Apiakun · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It really depends on what the meaning of is is. Does popularity mean that it is the most used, or the most liked? I would think that popularity and usage are a different metrics.

  2. What about PG? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I remember someone developing a rahter advanced multi-master replication and clustering for PostgreSQL. Does anyone know how far is that project? Has it entered the testing phase yet?
    From what I've read it looked very, very prommising, but it doesn't do much good if it's on paper only...