The is the third blog post in the NDB Quick Tip series and this one will be about what functionalities NDB supports per DB engine & DB Server VM operating system.
Other blog posts in the Quick Tip series are:
Back to the topic, functionalities supported for each DB engine and DB Server VM operating system are included in each NDB Release Note document and the most recent one is the NDB 2.5.1.1 Release Notes & more specifically in the section “NDB Software Compatibility and Feature Support”
All current release notes can be found via Nutanix Portal – Documentation – NDB.
The information included and defined per DB engine supported by NDB (MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, MySQL) includes:
- DB Server VM operating systems NDB support.
- NDB day two (day2) functionalities which are.
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- Snapshot & Log Catchup
- Clone
- Refresh
- Database management as a group
- Restore
- Patching
- Database Scaling – Increase storage capacity.
In addition to the above capabilities there can be differences between:
- DB engine implementation model meaning single instance vs db cluster.
- Greenfield (day zero / day0) vs Brownfield
- Greenfield – What DB engines with what configuration e.g. single instance vs DB cluster can NDB provision.
- Brownfield – What DB engines with what configuration e.g. single instance vs DB cluster can NDB register.
Now you know where to to go when you need information around NDB functioanlities supported per DB engine in combination with DB Server VM OS.
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