MySQL Clustering

[Steve Meyers]

> Last time I looked into MySQL clustering, it required the use of an
> in-memory storage engine.
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-cluster-overview.html
> This is cumbersome with even small datasets.  I wouldn't even want to
> try it with a large dataset.

MySQL 5.1's Cluster supports on-disk storage:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-cluster-disk-data.html