MySQL has released a preview of a new database product with clustering support, to cater to its enterprise level clients. Clustering is where a database is extended over more than one computer (node) to allow for greater fault-tolerance.
"The price of the commercial license will be significantly under $5,000 per CPU," DeSouza promised. He compared that with Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM, whose prices range from $20,000 to $32,000 per processor for their clustered databases.
MySQL Cluster runs across a variety of hardware and operating system platforms, including Linux, Windows, Solaris, and Mac OS X.
The full story is available here. The production version is expected to be released in a few months time.
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