MySQL Cluster has been developed for more than 20 years. The amount of innovative ideas in the product deserves a thorough description. This book covers the reasons why NDB was developed, the initial requirements and what applications it is used in. Covers internal algorithms and how they interact with external APIs and configuration. Contains a thorough description of how you configure both NDB and Linux for optimal performance and availability. Covers the NDB APIs, the replication between clusters, how to use MySQL Cluster with Docker, how to use NDB in the Cloud. You will learn how to use the benchmark tool dbt2-0.37.50.15 that is heavily used to benchmark MySQL Cluster.