Re: General question: why are there certain limitations w/ MySQL cluster?

[mike]

yes, i know it does.

my point is, what is the -real- difference for having cluster vs. replication? to me, it should be paired up under the same "feature" and the pros of both methods merged together - i'm not sure why it is still separate from each other, and also how they will get somewhat linked up in 5.1 (according to the FAQ)

it seems like replication works decent for a certain amount of load, except multi-master type setups (or updating/inserting data on more than 1 server at a time) will cause the auto_increment/etc type issues.

but if the cluster stuff handles this better, and can scale better without issues with replication logs and slaves stopping, not auto-restarting, etc, etc... why isn't replication just replaced with the cluster capability?

please reply to my thread about mysql usage - i'd like to collect some data! thanks!
http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?11,57080