Interview Question - DB Mirroring vs Clustering

Database mirroring and Clustering – both can serve the purpose of high availability and data protection. However Database mirroring is at database level only. Clustering is at server level, all databases on the instance are covered. In case of clustering there is a single copy of your data and log files where in case of mirroring you have multiple copies of files – on primary and secondary server both,  which increases your chances of recovery in case of disaster. In case of mirroring you cannot mirror the system databases viz. master, msdb etc. For mirroring to work database recovery model has to be set to "full recovery". I would see mirroring as a sophisticated log shipping mechanism with automatic failover capability.