Performance Guide for MySQL Cluster@MySQL Users Conference

A new MySQL Users Conference is coming up again. MySQL was acquired recently by Sun Microsystems and thus innovation within will happen at an even faster rate than previously. The Users Conference will contain a lot of interesting presentations on how to develop your MySQL Applications. So come to Santa Clara 15-17 April to take part of the development and discuss with many MySQLers how MySQL will be developed in the next few years. I've prepared a set of blogs that I will publish over the next few days to give you an idea of what's cooking within MySQL and I hope some of these blogs can persuade you to come there and give your opinion on where the future development should be heading.

Personally I'll add my contribution to the talks at the MySQL Users Conference what to think about when building a high performance application based on MySQL Cluster. MySQL Cluster technology has matured over the last few years and is being used in more and more application categories. I even visited a conference on Family History Technology at BYU where I bumped into Matt Garner from FindMyPast (), he told me about how they had used MySQL Cluster for their Data Mining application and sustained a continous flow of 75.000 queries per second.

In my talk I'm planning to cover how partitioning your application data can improve performance, how the use of cluster interconnects can improve response time by as much as a factor of 8, when to use the native NDB API's and when to use SQL, and how to use some new features recently developed.

The MySQL Cluster development has been very focused on developing a feature set for the Telecom space for a few years, the last year development has started focusing more on general features to ensure we get improved performance also on complex SQL queries. Also development of improved features for usage of computers with high number of cores and execution threads (e.g. Niagara processor from Sun) and a number of other performance improvements are developed.

The talk will be very much focused on how you as an application developer can make use of the enormous performance capabilities a MySQL Cluster provides you with. I also hope to be able to present some impressing benchmark numbers using a large cluster Intel has made available to our use.