Chapter 1 NDB Cluster APIs: Overview and Concepts

Table of Contents

1.1 NDB Cluster API Overview: Introduction

1.1.1 NDB Cluster API Overview: The NDB API

1.1.2 NDB Cluster API Overview: The MGM API

1.2 NDB Cluster API Overview: Version Compatibility

1.3 NDB Cluster API Overview: Terminology

1.4 The NDB Transaction and Scanning API

1.4.1 Core NDB API Classes

1.4.2 Application Program Basics

1.4.3 Review of NDB Cluster Concepts

1.4.4 The Adaptive Send Algorithm

1.5 Application-level partitioning

1.6 Using NdbInterpretedCode

Abstract

This chapter provides a general overview of essential NDB Cluster, NDB API, and MGM API concepts, terminology, and programming constructs.

For an overview of Java APIs that can be used with NDB Cluster, see Section 4.1, “MySQL NDB Cluster Connector for Java: Overview”.

For information about writing JavaScript applications for NDB Cluster using Node.js (deprecated in NDB 9.0), see Chapter 5, MySQL NoSQL Connector for JavaScript.