MySQL Cluster Certification Program for ISV Technology Providers

Certify Your Application with the Industry's Leading High Availability Database Today

By certifying your application with MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition database, you enjoy the following benefits:

• Providing even higher levels of customer assurance that your application can meet the most stringent demands for high availability, performance and scalability
• Increasing awareness and visibility of your application among one of the world's largest and most influential software user communities
• Differentiating your product from the competition by offering reduced complexity and integration costs along with faster time to market for your end customers

The self-certification process is simple, quick and low cost. MySQL provides a fast review of the certification results, and if accepted, you enjoy all of the unique benefits offered to MySQL's select group of ISV Technology Providers.

Steps to Getting Your Application Certified

To make this happen, all you need to do is follow these easy steps:

• Join the MySQL MECA partner program
• Test and certify your product with MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition, using your own test suite
• Post the tested and supported version of your product on your MECA partner product page, and send the completed certification document to partner@mysql.com.
• Once the document is approved, the certification document will be posted on your product page and the MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition logo will be displayed next to your product in the product directory
• Reference "MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition" as the supported database from MySQL in your marketing promotion material (e.g., product sheets, specifications, web site, customer announcements, etc)

Download the MECA Alliance Program Guide to learn more about joining the program and certifying your application

Download the MySQL Cluster Architecture and Key Features Whitepaper

Download the MySQL Cluster Evaluation Guide

Getting Started with MySQL Cluster

Why Use MySQL Cluster with Your Application

• Reduce COGS (Cost of Goods Sold). MySQL Cluster CGE is a cost-effective high availability, real time database with licensing terms that can be tailored to meet the unique requirements of ISVs needing a carrier-grade data management solution included with their application.
• Enter New Markets: Meet the requirements of a new class of customers by delivering highly available, massively scalable, real time solutions
• Deliver a "Database Included" Product. By including MySQL Cluster CGE you can deliver enterprise and carrier-grade applications to the market with no additional requirements for end-users to buy database licenses.
• Deliver a Better "Out-of-the-Box" Experience. Your customers will have a better "Out-of-the-Box" experience with a "database included" product. With a pre-configured, pre-tuned, and pre-optimized database there are no manageability issues for the customers and they can get the application into production faster, while reducing load on your support organization.
• Win Competitive Comparisons. Gain market share with a scalable and full-featured product by including a RDBMS with superior performance, scalability and reliability
• Achieve Linear Scalability. MySQL Cluster enables you to cost-effectively scale your application's database environment to increase throughput and scalability by easily adding more MySQL Cluster nodes on low-cost commodity hardware.
• Best-in-Class Database. Demonstrate your technology leadership and let your customers rest assured by including the market leading, brand name open source database.
• Open Source Freedom. With access to the MySQL source code, you have the ultimate flexibility to tailor MySQL to your specific needs. And in the process, developers and DBAs benefit from a huge open source ecosystem.
• No Vendor Lock-in. By choosing open source products and open standards, ISVs automatically protect themselves from becoming locked into a single vendor's technology, which often results in financial burdens down the road. And in the process, ISVs benefit from a huge open source ecosystem.
• Focus Engineering on Your Core Competency. Make best use of your precious engineering resources by focusing them on developing your core product(s) rather than building and maintaining a database.
• Reduce Risk to Engineering Schedule. Accelerate your time to market by including a proven relational database rather than building your own. Plus, MySQL Cluster is a proven high performance, high availability database, so you don't have to compromise database functionality or performance.
• 24x7 Support. Get support directly from the source - from the engineers who develop MySQL Cluster CGE. They are ready to help you with your toughest technical questions