For this next ‘multi-master MySQL’ blog in our Continuent MySQL
Use Case series, we’re focusing on Financial Services Saas
providers.
Often referred to as the number one open source database in the
cloud, and a leading SaaS database, MySQL enables SaaS vendors to
be competitive because it provides cost-effective data security
and privacy, performance, and availability amongst other things,
which are of particular importance for a SaaS business.
As per our previous multi-master MySQL use case blog (for
e-commerce sites), multi-master replication for MySQL typically
means that a user can write to any master node knowing that the
write will be eventually consistent for all nodes in the cluster;
unlike regular MySQL replication, where writes have to be applied
to the sole master to ensure that it will be replicated to …
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