As you saw on the keynote, we are introducing an integrated
framework for managing farms of MySQL servers with support
for both high-availability and sharding. It should be noted that
this is a very early alpha and that it at this point is not ready
for production use.
MySQL Fabric is an integrated system for managing a collection of
MySQL servers and is the framework on which high-availability and
sharding is built. MySQL Fabric is open-source and is intended to
be extensible, easy to use, and support procedure execution even
in the presence of failure, an execution model we call
resilient execution.
To ensure high-availability, it is necessary to have redundancy
in the system. For database systems, the redundancy traditionally
takes the form of having a primary server acting as a master and
using replication to keep secondaries available to take over in
case the primary fails. This means that the "server" …
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