edition' release. Supports 255 nodes, online table alter, replication latency and throughput enhancements etc. MySQL Cluster 6.3 based on MySQL 5.1.B Includes compressed backup + LCP, circular replication support, conflict detection/resolution, table optimization etc. MySQL Cluster 7.0 based on MySQL 5.1.C Includes multi-threaded data nodes (ndbmtd), Transactional DDL, Windows support. MySQL Cluster 7.1 based on MySQL 5.1.D Includes ClusterJ and ClusterJPA connectors Currently available versions: MySQL Cluster 7.2 based on MySQL 5.5 Includes Adaptive Query Localization (pushes JOIN operations down to the data nodes), Memcached API, simplified Active/Active Geographic replication, multi-site clustering, data node scalability enhancements, consolidated user privileges. MySQL Cluster 7.3 based on MySQL 5.6 Includes support for foreign key constraints, Node.js / JavaScript API and an auto-installer. MySQL Cluster 7.4 based on MySQL 5.6 Includes enhanced conflict detection and resolution, improved node restart times, new Event API. MySQL Cluster 7.5 based on MySQL 5.7 Includes support for bigger datasets(more than 128TB per node), improved read scalability through read optimized tables, improved SQL support. MySQL Cluster 7.6 based on MySQL 5.7 Improved restart and recovery times, reduced disk space usage, improved join performance, new import tool, shared memory communication, improved topology awareness for cloud. MySQL Cluster 8.0 based on MySQL 8.0 Increase in max row size to 30kB, Support for up to 144 data nodes, Improved distributed filtering and joining, Support for parallel outer joins and semi joins, Improved schema and ACL handling, Online column rename, Simplified configuration, Multithreaded parallel backup and restore, Disk data performance improvements, Enhanced support for 3 and 4 replica configurations, Support for multi socket mesh networking, Support for restore transformations, Improved Blob write performance, Backup encryption, Support for IPv6, Threading autoconfiguration, Improved recovery performance, Improved query multithreading. Requirements For evaluation purposes, it is possible to run MySQL Cluster on a single physical server. For production deployments, the minimum system requirements are for 3 x instances / hosts: 2 × Data Nodes 1 × Application / Management Node or 2 × Data Node + Application 1 × Management Node Configurations as follows: OS: Linux, Solaris, Windows. macOS (for development only) CPU: Intel/AMD x86/x86-64, UltraSPARC Memory: 1GB HDD: 3GB Network: 1+ nodes (Standard Ethernet - TCP/IP) Tips and recommendations on deploying highly performant, production grade clusters can be found in the MySQL Cluster Evaluation Guide and the Guide to Optimizing Performance of the MySQL Cluster Database. History MySQL AB acquired the technology behind MySQL Cluster from