Speaker: Mikael Ronstrom, PhD, the creator of the Cluster engine
Explains the cluster structure
Aspects of performance
Response times
Throughput
Low variation of response times
Improving performance
use low level API (NDB API), expensive, hard
use new features in MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition 6.3 (currently 6.3.13), more on this later
proper partitioning of tables, minimize communication
use of hardware
NDB API is a C++ record [...] ...