All about Carrier Grade Edition

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 08:27 -0400, Anatoly Pidruchny wrote:
> CGE = Carrier Grade Edition
>
> Stewart, could you please explain what is the Carrier Grade Edition and
> why it was created? I read about the CGE, but could not understand the
> principal difference of CGE from the regular MySQL Cluster. It has some
> new features, but it escapes me why these new features are not just
> added to the regular MySQL Cluster.

MySQL Cluster 5.1 Carrier Grade Edition (sometimes just called CGE or telco) was created as a direct response to customer needs.

The main 5.1 tree is in feature freeze and late beta. Adding new features to 5.1 now is a no no.

We have new features for Cluster that customers need (and are paying us to develop). This is where CGE comes in. This is where those features go.

Since customers need to both deploy and test, we have several versions of CGE... some for stable use, some for ongoing testing and development.

Different CGE versions are kept at different stages of up-to-dateness with the main 5.1 tree... so bugs fixed in MySQL 5.1.X may or may not make it into a CGE release. The latest CGE release is usually kept rather up to date with main 5.1 though.

Bug fixes are still fixed in the main 5.1 tree though, so it's perfectly okay to use 5.1.

Also see:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-cluster-cge-differences.html

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