Right now Aurora only allows a single master, with up to 15 read-only replicas.

Master/Replica Failover

We love testing failure scenarios, however our options for such tests with Aurora are limited (we might get back to that later).  Anyhow, we told the system, through the RDS Aurora dashboard, to do a failover. These were our observations:

Role Change Method

Both master and replica instances are actually restarted (the MySQL uptime resets to 0).

This is quite unusual these days, we can do a fully controlled role change in classic asynchronous replication without a restart (CHANGE MASTER TO …), and Galera doesn’t have read/write roles as such (all instances are technically writers) so it doesn’t need role changes at all.

Failover Timing

Failover between running instances takes about 30 seconds.  This is in line with information provided in the …

Our clients operate on a variety of platforms, and RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) Aurora has received quite a bit of attention in recent times. On behalf of our clients, we look beyond the marketing, and see what the technical architecture actually delivers.  We will address specific topics in individual posts, this time checking out what the Aurora architecture means for write and caching behaviour (and thus performance).

What is RDS Aurora?

First of all, let’s declare the baseline.  MySQL Aurora is not a completely new RDBMS. It comprises a set of Amazon modifications on top of stock Oracle MySQL 5.6 and 5.7, implementing a different replication mechanism and some other changes/additions.  While we have some information (for instance from the “deep dive” by AWS VP Anurag Gupta), the source code of the Aurora modifications …

“Our three megastores’ and webshop’s combined revenue was 432 million euros in the year 2017. Galera Cluster has been the cornerstone of the system, secured our sales and supported our growth.”

“MySQL master/slave setup was just too fragile and needed regular work to fix each time the slave got out of sync. Now with Galera we’ve found that even if we take a node offline for a while, it re-syncs automatically and without intervention.”

“The big plus is that all nodes have exact the same information, and no node is running for even a fraction of a second behind. This will also mean that no information will be lost!”

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Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.20-29.24 (PXC) on January 26, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

NOTE: Due to new package dependency,
Ubuntu/Debian users should use apt-get dist-upgrade, apt upgrade, or apt-get install percona-xtradb-cluster-57 to upgrade.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.20-29.24 is now the current release, based on the following:

• …

Recently, I was working with one of our customer and this is what their requirement as they want to automate this process for converting galera node to async slave and make async slave to galera node without shutting down any server. ———- Here are the steps for how to do that. I assumes that you already have working 3 nodes galera cluster if not, then for the testing purpose you can create it from my previous post. setup-three-nodes-mariadb-galera-cluster-on-single-server-with-mysql-sandbox ———- Btw, there is no matter how many nodes you have. Now, create one test1 table and add 3 records in galera cluster.

MariaDB [nil]> select * from test1;
+------+-----------+
| id   | name      |
+------+-----------+
|    1 | nilnandan |
|    2 | joshi     |
|    3 | niljoshi  |
+------+-----------+ …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.38-26.23 (PXC) on January 24, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.38-26.23 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.38
• Galera/Codership WSREP API Release 5.6.38
• Galera Replication library 3.21

All Percona software is open-source and free. …

High availability for MySQL has become increasingly relevant given the ever increasing rate of adoption and implementation. It’s no secret to anyone in the community that the popularity of MySQL has become noteworthy. I still remember my start with MySQL in the early 5.0 days and people told me that I may not want to consider wasting my time training on a database that didn’t have a large industry adoption, but look at where we are now! One of my favorite pages to cite when trying to exhibit this fact is the db-engines.com ranking trend page where we can see that MySQL is right up there and contending with enterprise products such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.

MySQL has gone from being part of the ever famous LAMP stack for users looking to set up their first website to seeing adoption from major technical players such as …

“We wanted a solution which was backward compatible with our frameworks, as we have used mainly MySQL, which was reliable and nearly 100% data consistent.  If our application were to execute a commit and receive a successful response, we needed a 100% guarantee that we have rows of data in our database — and for more than that one instance.”

There were many options E-CARD explored. “First, we tried MySQL NDB Cluster. That was a very frustrating experience. After that we tried a few other plugins and extensions of MySQL, but they weren’t complete solutions. At the end of this process, we found Galera with MySQL. It responded to our needs nearly 100% of the time.”

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Bulgarian National Lottery chooses Galera Cluster

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.19-29.22-3 on October 27, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

NOTE: You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.19-29.22-3 is now the current release, based on the following:

• …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.37-26.21-3 on October 27, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.37-26.21-3 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.37-82.2
• Galera Replication library 3.21
• wsrep API version 26

All Percona software is open-source and free.

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