[ale] MySQL Cluster

[Mike Harrison]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> On 02/16/2012 02:35 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> the writes are screaming fast and the reads are always consistent!
>
> Additionally, it is FAST and has MANY TUTORIALS!  And hey, magic pixies
> are always fun, right?  :-)
>
> http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7091415/mysql-is-a-database

While cute and funny, and in some cases true...

It's really not constructive in this case. I'm looking for some feedback 
from someone that has actually or is actually using MySQL in a cluster
configuration. Yeah, I've been googling, reading, etc.. I was hoping to 
find someone whith whome I have an idea about what kind of user/person 
they were, and what their feedback is.  Random blog entries are 
interesting, but are hard to gauge the relevance.

It's being considered aong other options, including retooling to 
PostgreSQL. Heck... considered Sybase/M$-SQL just because of the tools and 
support for it. (have past experience with them as well)

My personal experience using MySQL, stand alone and master-slave
with databases in the 1 to 8gb range (small?) in mission critical
situations has been pretty darn impressive. There are things
I wish it did better (crosstabs for example) but if used
simply, it rocks.

Anyone out there got any constructive criticism or commentary?