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NDB Cluster is the distributed database system underlying MySQL Cluster. It can be used independently of a MySQL Server with users accessing the Cluster via the NDB API (C++). "NDB" stands for Network Database. From the MySQL Server perspective the NDB Cluster is a Storage engine for storing tables of rows. MySQL Cluster uses the MySQL Server to provide the following capabilities on top of Ndb Cluster: All API processes including the MySQL Server use the NDBAPI C++ client library to connect to the NDB Cluster and perform operations.