MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition provides the telecom industry with a true real-time database with flexibility of a relational database plus the cost savings of open source. It is specifically designed to meet the business and technical challenges currently facing Telecom Equipment Manufacturers (TEM) and Network Service Providers (NSP) with the next-generation of services and applications for converged networks.

MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade enables telecom organizations to:

• Increase PerformanceSatisfies the real-time and low latency requirements or Subscriber-Centric Networks with the best price to performance ratio in the industry
• Maximize Reliability and AvailabilityA parallel server architecture coupled with geographic replication allows for no single point of failure and delivery of 5 nines of availability (99.999%)
• Promote Interoperability and FlexibilityCompatible with database-independent APIs or existing subscriber models
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)Incrementally scale your applications in a linear fashion on ATCA based, Linux systems

MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition has a flexible distributed architecture which gives you complete control over the level of performance, reliability and scalability you need to match your application requirements.

Designed for 99.999% Availability
MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition provides a fault tolerant architecture that ensures your organization's mission critical applications achieve 99.999% availability. This means less than 5 minutes downtime per year, including scheduled maintenance time. MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition implements automatic node recoverability to ensure an application automatically fails over to another database node that contains a consistent data set, if one or more database nodes fail. Should all nodes fail due to hardware faults for example, MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition ensures an entire system can be safely recovered in a consistent state by using a combination of checkpoints and log execution. Furthermore, MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition ensures systems are available and consistent across geographies by enabling entire clusters to be replicated across regions.

Real-Time Performance

MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition provides the response time and throughput to meet the most demanding telecom applications. MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition achieves its performance advantage by being a main memory clustered database solution, which keeps all data in memory and limits IO bottlenecks by asynchronously writing transaction logs to disk. MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition also enables servers to share processing within a cluster, taking full advantage of all hardware. Typical response times for MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition are in the range of a few milliseconds and it has been proven to handle tens of thousands of distributed transactions per second that are also replicated across database nodes.

Linear Scalability
The ability to scale in a near linear fashion is necessary to cost-effectively scale your infrastructure to support massive subscriber growth. MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition’s architecture enables it to scale in a near linear fashion leveraging user-defined partitioning. This means that data can be efficiently accessed on a single Data Node without the need for intercommunication within the cluster to satisfy a result set or look up.

MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition supports up to 255 nodes, ensuring organizations have the flexibility to start small and make incremental investments to increase capacity as their needs grow. In addition, adding Application Nodes (NDB API or MySQL Servers) to a system can be done online, without any downtime.

Geographic Replication

MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition supports asynchronous replication between clusters within the data center or across geographies. This allows organizations to mitigate potential network or site failures cost effectively with MySQL Replication, increasing availability and scalability at the same time.
Reliability

MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition delivers extremely fast failover time with sub-second response so your applications can recover quickly in the event of application, network or hardware failure. MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition uses synchronous replication to propagate transaction information to all the appropriate database nodes so applications can automatically fail over to another node extremely quickly. This eliminates the time consuming operation of recreating and replaying log files required by 'Shared-Disk' architectures to fail over successfully. Plus, MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition database nodes are able to automatically restart, recover, and dynamically reconfigure themselves in case of failures without having to program advanced features into the application.

Interoperability and Flexibility

MySQL remains the most popular open source database in the world which runs on popular open source and proprietary hardware and software stacks. With support for all the major Linux platforms, as well as, proprietary Unix operating systems like Solaris or HP-UX.

MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition is also compatible with database-independent APIs or existing relational subscriber models. As mentioned, MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition supports both traditional SQL and C++ API data access.

Lower Total Cost of Ownership

Because MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition uses shared-nothing data storage without the need and expense of a SAN, this eliminates the need for a large initial hardware and software investment in what tends to be over powered and costly configurations.

MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition not only lowers up-front license costs with affordable commercial licensing under a dual licensing mechanism, but it also significantly reduces system downtime - the number one contributor to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of database software. Furthermore, a highly portable standards-based environment allows you to cost-effectively distribute your applications using commodity Advanced-TCA hardware and open source software infrastructure.

Services and Support

MySQL provides extensive consulting, training and technical support services to ensure the success of your next mission-critical database application project. MySQL has a proven track record gained through millions of successful customer deployments that can lower your risk and maximize return on investment.