Alzato, a small venture company started by Ericsson. NDB was originally designed for the telecom market, with its high availability and high performance requirements. MySQL Cluster based on the NDB storage engine has since been integrated into the MySQL product, with its first release being in MySQL 4.1. Books MySQL Cluster 7.5 inside and out. Book written by Mikael Ronström, the founder of the NDB technology. Pro MySQL NDB Cluster. Book written by Jesper Wisborg Krogh and Mikiya Okuno, support engineers of MySQL. Support MySQL Cluster is licensed under the GPLv2 license. Commercial support is available as part of MySQL Cluster CGE, which also includes non-open source addons such as MySQL Cluster Manager, MySQL Enterprise Monitor, in addition to MySQL Enterprise Security and MySQL Enterprise Audit. See also Galera Cluster, a generic synchronous multi-master replication library for transactional databases, for MySQL and MariaDB. Percona XtraDB Cluster, also is a combination of Galera replication library and MySQL supporting multi master. RonDB A fork of MySQL Cluster maintained by Hopsworks. References External links MySQL Official MySQL Cluster Documentation MySQL Cluster API Developers' Guide MySQL Cluster Demonstration MySQL Cluster Datasheet MySQL Cluster FAQ MySQL Cluster Auto-Installer Tutorial Getting Started with MySQL Cluster MySQL Cluster Whitepapers and Guides MySQL Cluster Community Forum Other Design and Modelling of a Parallel Data Server for Telecom Applications (1997) Original MySQL Cluster design motivation. MySQL Cluster computing