The link to the slides of my talks can be found at the end of this post but first, let me share some thoughts about PLMCE.

Talking with people, I was surprised to be criticized of presenting only the good sides of my solution without giving credit to the good side of the alternative solutions.  More than surprised, I was also a little shocked as I want to be perceived as objective as possible.  Let me try to fix that:

• I am not a GTID and log-slaves detractor, I am a simplicity lover.
• I actually like GTIDs and I have some use-cases for them; one of  them is described in the MariaDB Knowledge Base (search for last_gtid in that page).
• But I think that using GTIDs in the slave protocol is complex and that a …

I recently hosted a webinar introducing MySQL Cluster and then looking into what’s new in the latest version (MySQL Cluster 7.4) in some more detail. The replay of the MySQL Cluster 7.4 webinar is now available here. Alternatively if just want to skim through the charts then scroll down.

Abstract

MySQL Cluster powers the subscriber databases of major communication services providers as well as next generation web, cloud, social and mobile applications. It is designed to deliver:

• Real-time, in-memory performance for both OLTP and analytics workloads
• Linear scale-out for both reads and writes
• 99.999% High Availability
• Transparent, cross-shard transactions …

Note: DO NOT use this procedure in production, this is a proof of concept (POC).  MaxScale 1.1.0 does not yet fully support that procedure and things could go wrong in some situations (see at the end of the post for the details).

In my talk at PLMCE 2015, I presented an architecture to promote a slave as a new master without touching any other slave and I claimed that I tested it.  This HOWTO

Dealing with the failure of a MySQL master is not simple.  The most common solution is to promote a slave as the new master but in an environment where you have many slaves, the asynchronous implementation of replication gets in your way.  The problem is that each slave might be in a different state:

some could be very close to the dead master, some could be missing the latest transactions, and

Earlier this week, I presented a webinar on MySQL High Availability options for MySQL – what they are and how to choose the most appropriate one for your application.

The replay of this webinar can now be viewed here or if you just want to look at the charts then scroll down. At the end of this post, I include a summary of the Q&A from the webinar.

How important is your data? Can you afford to lose it? What about just some of it? What would be the impact if you couldn’t access it for a minute, an hour, a day or a week?

Different applications can have very different requirements for High Availability. Some need 100% …

Introduction

This article details the proper method of load balancing either a Percona XTRADB Cluster (PXC) or MariaDB Cluster.  Both of these solutuions utilize the same Galera plugin to facilitate clustering.  This information deatails what ports must be open and how they are to be configured as well as how to route traffic to the database nodes.

There are generally a total of three (3) nodes in this cluster, along with a single load balancer. This is the minimum number of nodes required for a cluster. This does not mean that the cluster is down if one or two nodes are lost – it only means that at least three nodes are required for normal cluster operation.

Data Centers

One of the most common questions we receive is whether the cluster can span two data centers.  The short answer is “Yes, but…”   While it is possible for a cluster to span two data centers, it …

Last weekend I got to present to the MySQL Developers Room at FOSDEM in Brussels.

The subject of my presentation was NoSQL and SQL the best of both worlds…

There’s a lot of excitement around NoSQL Data Stores with the promise of simple access patterns, flexible schemas, scalability and High Availability. The downside comes in the form of losing ACID transactions, consistency, flexible queries and data integrity checks. What if you could have the best of both worlds? This session shows how MySQL Cluster provides simultaneous SQL and native NoSQL access to your data – whether a simple key-value API (Memcached), REST, JavaScript, Java or C++. You will hear how the MySQL Cluster architecture delivers in-memory real-time performance, 99.999% availability, on-line maintenance and linear, horizontal scalability …

February 4, 2015 By Severalnines Check Out Our Latest Technical Resources for MySQL, MariaDB & MongoDB Clusters

Like every month, we have created new content and tools for you; here is a summary of what we’ve published. Please do check it out and let us know if you have any comments or feedback.

New Live Technical Webinars

A DevOps Guide to Database Infrastructure Automation for eCommerce

Tuesday, February 17th

Infrastructure automation isn’t easy, but it’s not rocket science either, says Riaan Nolan. Automation is a worthwhile investment for retailers serious about eCommerce, but deciding on which tools …

January 30, 2015 By Severalnines

Thanks to everyone who participated in these two sessions this week! Please see below for details on next week’s follow up session 'Performance Tuning for HAProxy & MySQL'.

The topics covered this week included: 

• What is HAProxy?
• SQL Load balancing for MySQL
• Failure detection using MySQL health checks
• High Availability with Keepalived and Virtual IP
• Use cases: MySQL/MariaDB Galera Cluster, MySQL NDB Cluster …

Join 29,000 others and follow Sean Hull on twitter @hullsean. Oh RDS, you offer such promise, but damn it if the devil isn’t always buried in the details. Diving into a recent project, I’ve been looking at upgrading RDS MySQL. Major MySQL upgrades can be a bit messy. Since the entire engine is rebuilt, queries […]