Monday, August 20, 2018

Use cases for MySQL Cluster

Third chapter of "MySQL Cluster 7.5 inside and out".

NDB was designed for a number of networking applications. In particular the original
design focused a lot on telecom applications. The telecom applications have extreme
requirements on availability, many networking applications as well.

This chapter goes through a number of application types where NDB have been used
and also uses a number of public examples of use cases.

These application types include DNS servers, DHCP servers, Intelligent Network (IN)
applications, 3G/4G/5G applications, RADIUS servers, number portability, DIAMETER
server, Video-on-demand applications, Payment Gateways, Software Defined
Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Voice over IP.

In addition also many internet applications such as Gaming servers, financial
applications such as stock quote servers, whitelist/blacklist handling. eCommerce
applications, payment services, web applications, fraud detection, online banking,
session database.

In addition a number of frameworks have used NDB and presented it publically such
as a GE presentation, HopsFS (Hadoop distribution), HopsYARN, Oracle OpenStack
and OpenLDAP.

With the possibility to handle more data in MySQL Cluster 7.6 it is likely that this
list of application types will grow even more.

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