Comment by jamesblonde

Yes, that's a good few years ago. Stability issues were mostly fixed around 8 years ago. It's now very stable. There are products like www.severalnines.com and MySQL Manager to setup and manage instances for you with a UI. If you want to roll your own, there are chef cookbooks for installing ndb - https://github.com/hopshadoop/ndb-chef .

But if you really want to squeeze performance out of it, read Mikael's blog: http://mikaelronstrom.blogspot.se/ and Frazer's blog: http://messagepassing.blogspot.se/