[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Swedish open-source database maker MySQL AB plans to release a
new clustered database product with high-availability support next
month, company officials disclosed. The new MySQL Cluster combines
the company’s flagship open-source database with a clustering
architecture officials say is designed to deliver database
applications with so-called five-nines availability (99.999%, or
less than five minutes of downtime per year).“The new cluster capabilities are based on technology from
Alzato, a start-up venture created by European telecom equipment
maker Ericsson in 2000 and acquired by MySQL AB last
October…”