Introduction to MySQL Cluster (Jeremy Zawodny's blog)

Introduction to MySQL Cluster (Jeremy Zawodny's blog): "First we're seeing an overview of the NDB architecture. If you've never seen it before, think 'Oracle RAC without shared storage' and you're 95% of the way there.
The core NDB engine is a new storage engine inside MySQL. It provides transactions, replication, on-line backups, crash recovery, hash and tree indexes, on-line index builds, auto-detection of a failed node and re-sync when it comes back up. There are rolling upgrades, which provide a way to upgrade things without a disruption of service."

Jeremy has many more entries from the MySQL 2004 conference, hitting every session he attends. Interesting stuff, MySQL is without a doubt on the radar as a DB to watch for potential DW applications. 0$/CPU + lightning fast selects = excellent reporting server...