MySQL 5.7 Reference Manual Including MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5 and NDB Cluster 7.6
This chapter provides information about MySQL
NDB Cluster, a
high-availability, high-redundancy version of MySQL adapted for the
distributed computing environment. The most recent NDB Cluster
release series uses version 8 of the
NDB
storage engine (also known as
NDBCLUSTER
) to enable running several
computers with MySQL servers and other software in a cluster. NDB
Cluster 8.0, now available as a General Availability (GA) release
beginning with version 8.0.19, incorporates version 8.0 of the
NDB
storage engine. NDB Cluster 7.6 and NDB
Cluster 7.5, still available as GA releases, use versions 7.6 and
7.5 of NDB
, respectively. Previous GA releases
still available for use in production, NDB Cluster 7.4 and NDB
Cluster 7.3, incorporate NDB
versions 7.4 and
7.3, respectively. NDB 7.2 and older release series are no
longer supported or maintained.
This chapter contains information about NDB Cluster 7.5 releases through 5.7.38-ndb-7.5.27 and NDB Cluster 7.6 releases through 5.7.38-ndb-7.6.26, both of which are General Availability (GA) releases supported in production. The latest available rleases of these are 5.7.38-ndb-7.5.26 and 5.7.38-ndb-7.6.22, respectively. NDB Cluster 8.0 is the current GA release and recommended for new deployments; for information about NDB Cluster 8.0, see What is New in NDB Cluster. For similar information about NDB Cluster 7.5 and 7.6, see Section 21.2.4, “What is New in NDB Cluster”. NDB Cluster 7.4 and 7.3 are previous GA releases still supported in production; see MySQL NDB Cluster 7.3 and NDB Cluster 7.4.