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Who are the target customers for MySQL Cluster?

Any organization that is interested in mainframe reliability on cost-effective, commodity hardware and software. Typical customers include telecommunication and financial services companies that need throughput to handle high volumes of transactions. However, MySQL Cluster is an affordable solution for any company requiring high availability. Specific users and organizations include:
- Existing MySQL Users Existing MySQL users who need to accommodate increasing throughput of their business-critical applications as a result of the increasing number of users as well as the growing volumes of data and transactions.
- Telecom Customers Telecom organizations who are using commercial databases such as TimesTen or proprietary home grown solutions but now find them too expensive and time consuming to maintain.
- Government Organizations Government organizations that are constrained by budget, and are aggressively evaluating an open source stack.
- Corporate IT and Development Managers Any organization that requires high-availability to reduce the cost of database downtime for business critical applications such as CRM, Financials, and e-commerce applications.
- Organization that need a cost effective open source stack MySQL Cluster provides a cost-effective solution for high-availability requirements.