MySQL Fabric and 5.7 will be the topics of presentations this Thursday (5/22) at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, California. Lee Stigile is presenting: What’s new in MySQL 5.7, and Sastry Vendantam is presenting MySQL Fabric.

Agenda is as follows:

5:00-5:30 Networking/Socialize over food and drinks
5:30-6:00 Lee will present MySQL 5.7
6:00-6:30 Sastry will present Fabric
6:30-7:00 Q&A and Socialize over food and drinks

Here is the link to register/RSVP

Plug and Play Tech Center
Thursday, May 22, 2014 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (PDT)
440 N Wolfe Rd
Sunnyvale, CA 94085

In our previous post, we introduced the MySQL Fabric utility and said we would dig deeper into it. This post is the first part of our test of MySQL Fabric’s High Availability (HA) functionality.

Today, we’ll review MySQL Fabric’s HA concepts, and then walk you through the setup of a 3-node cluster with one Primary and two Secondaries, doing a few basic tests with it. In a second post, we will spend more time generating failure scenarios and documenting how Fabric handles them. (MySQL Fabric is an extensible framework to manage large farms of MySQL servers, with support for high-availability and sharding.)

Before we begin, we recommend you read this post by Oracle’s …

Going to Percona Live and presenting MySQL Fabric gave me the opportunity to meet a lot of people and get a lot of good feedback. I talked to developers from many different companies and got a lot of great feedback that will affect the priorities we make, so to all I spoke to I would like to say a great "Thank you!" for the interesting discussions that we had. Your feedback is very valuable.

It was very interesting to read the comments on MySQL Fabric on MySQL Performance Blog. The article discuss the current version of MySQL Fabric distributed with MySQL Utilities and give …

While built-in replication has been a major cause for MySQL’s wide adoption, official tools to help DBAs manage replication topologies have typically been missing from the picture. The community has produced many good products to fill in this gap, but recently, Oracle has been filling it too with the addition of MySQL Utilities to the mix.

One part of the Utilities that has been generating interest recently is MySQL Fabric, and we will be discussing this project in an upcoming series of blog …

If we want to run the application presented in "Writing a Fault-tolerant Database Application using MySQL Fabric" with MySQL Fabric 1.4.2 Release Candidate, some changes to the application are required. In the previous post, we used MySQL Fabric 1.4.0 Alpha and many changes have been made since this version. We can find an updated version of the application here:

• Updated application, ready to use with MySQL Fabric 1.4.2 Release Candidate.

Recall that the application creates a simple database, a high availability group, registers the MySQL Servers into Fabric and runs a thread that mimics a client and another one that periodically executes a switch …

To install and run MySQL Fabric, we need:

• Python 2.6 or 2.7
• Connector Python (MySQL Fabric-aware Version 1.2.1 or later)
• One or more MySQL servers installed and running (5.6.10 or later):
  • Backing Store
  • Managed Servers
• MySQL Utilities 1.4.2 or later

Python 2.6 or 2.7

We can use the following command to check whether python is installed in our machine or not:

$ python --version

If you don't have the appropriate version installed, please, read through the following web page and find out how to download and install python 2.6 or 2.7:

• https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Download

MySQL Utilities 1.4.2 Release Candidate is out and it includes MySQL Fabric as well. We have made MySQL Fabric more solid and worked on stabilizing the connector "interfaces" for load-balancing and scale-out. MySQL Utilities 1.4.2 is available for download from:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/utilities/1.4.html

Use the following forum to provide us suggestions, comments or any feedback:

http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?144

If you come across any bug or have any feature request, please, report it through our public bug system category "MySQL Fabric".

Help us make this an awesome shard solution.

As you saw in the press release, MySQL Fabric 1.4.2 is now released! If you're interested in learning more about MySQL Fabric, there is a session April 3, 2014 11:10–12pm titled Sharding and Scale-out using MySQL Fabric in Ballroom G.

MySQL Fabric is a relatively new project in the MySQL ecosystem and it focuses on building a framework for working with large deployments of MySQL Servers. The architecture of MySQL Fabric is such that it allows extensions to be added and the first two extensions that we added were support for high-availability using High-Availability groups (HA groups) and sharding to manage very large databases. The first version of sharding have hash and range sharding implemented as well as …

MySQL Fabric is a new framework that adds High Availability (HA) and/or scaling-out for MySQL. This is the second in a series of posts on the new MySQL Fabric framework; the first article (MySQL Fabric – adding High Availability to MySQL) explained how MySQL Fabric can deliver HA and then stepped through all of the steps to configure and use it.

This post focuses on using MySQL Fabric to scale out both reads and writes across multiple MySQL Servers. It starts with an introduction to scaling out (by partitioning/sharding data) and how MySQL Fabric achieves it before going on to work through a full example of configuring sharding across a farm of MySQL Servers together with the code that the application developer needs to …

MySQL Fabric is a new framework that adds High Availability (HA) and/or scaling-out for MySQL. MySQL Fabric achieves scale-out by managing the sharding of table data between multiple MySQL Servers and then having Fabric-aware connectors route queries and transactions to the correct locations – scaling-out will be the subject of a future post and the rest of this article is focused on using MySQL Fabric for HA. It starts with an introduction to HA and how MySQL Fabric delivers it before going on to work through a full example of configuring a HA farm of MySQL Servers together with the code that the application developer needs to write in order to exploit it. Note that at the time of writing, MySQL Fabric is not yet GA but is available as a public alpha.

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