It is more suited for realtime transaction processing type activity, not for big data type analytics.
NDB was originally created by and for telecoms. So very high write/read rates with very fast response times and very high availability required. Generally not extremely large datasets.
If you know what you are doing, NDB can work extremely well. It supports all of the highend cluster goodies including online software upgrade, online node addition, automatic handling of node failures, geographic async replication, etc...
However, it certainly has a pretty steep learning curve from the admin point of view and it is a bit easy to mess things up. It is a bit brittle due to this, but once it is setup properly and running, it can deliver on the promises.
NDB was originally created by and for telecoms. So very high write/read rates with very fast response times and very high availability required. Generally not extremely large datasets.
If you know what you are doing, NDB can work extremely well. It supports all of the highend cluster goodies including online software upgrade, online node addition, automatic handling of node failures, geographic async replication, etc...
However, it certainly has a pretty steep learning curve from the admin point of view and it is a bit easy to mess things up. It is a bit brittle due to this, but once it is setup properly and running, it can deliver on the promises.