MySQL Cluster on Raspberry Pi

NDB on Pi is a teaching cluster, not a capacity plan.

NDB Cluster on Raspberry Pi teaches topology with hardware you can hold: management nodes, data nodes, API/mysqld nodes, failover drills.

Transfers

  • Failure-domain thinking
  • SST/IST pain in miniature
  • Why arbitration and quorum matter

Does not transfer

  • Wi-Fi/cheap-switch network behaviour
  • SD-card failure modes as “storage design”
  • DataMemory/IndexMemory sizing for production
  • Real concurrency headroom

Use Pis to learn failure. Size production NDB on hardware that matches documented requirements, with planned networking and arbitration.