ProxySQL and Orchestrator are usually installed to achieve high availability when using MySQL replication. On a failover (or graceful takeover) scenario, Orchestrator will promote a slave, and ProxySQL will redirect the traffic. Depending on how your environment is configured, and how long the promotion takes, you could end up in a scenario where you need manual intervention.

In this post, we are going to talk about some considerations when working with ProxySQL in combination with pt-heartbeat (part of Percona Toolkit), with the goal of making your environment more reliable.

Why Would We Want pt-heartbeat With ProxySQL?

If you have intermediate masters, the seconds_behind_master metric is not good enough. Slave servers that are attached to intermediate masters will report the seconds_behind_master relative to their own …

MySQL query rewrite for ClickHouse using ProxySQL  Introduction

ProxySQL in September 2017 announced support for ClickHouse as backend. ProxySQL is a popular open source, high performance and protocol-aware proxy server for MySQL and its forks. ClickHouse is an open source column-oriented database management system capable of real time generation of analytical data reports using SQL queries. To support ClickHouse as a backend, ProxySQL acts as a data bridge between MySQL protocol and ClickHouse protocol, allowing MySQL clients to execute queries in ClickHouse through it. ClickHouse’s SQL query syntax is different than MySQL’s syntax, and migrating application from MySQL to ClickHouse isn’t just a matter of changing connections endpoint but it also requires modifying some queries. This needs development time, but not always possible. One of ProxySQL most widely used feature is indeed the ability of …

Use ClickHouse like MySQL with ProxySQL Introduction

We have several customers on ClickHouse now for both columnar database analytics and archiving MySQL data, You can access data from ClickHouse with clickhouse-client but this involves some learning  and also limitations technically. Our customers are very comfortable using MySQL so they always preferred a MySQL client for ClickHouse query analysis and reporting, Thankfully ProxySQL works as a optimal bridge between ClickHouse and MySQL client, This indeed was a great news for us and our customers worldwide. This blog post is about how we can use MySQL client with ClickHouse.

Installation

• https://github.com/sysown/proxysql/releases/  (**Download the package starting with clickhouse )
• Dependencies installation:
  • yum -y install …

While we’ve had MySQL Group Replication support in ProxySQL since version 1.3 (native as of v1.4), development has continued in subsequent versions. I’d like to describe a scenario of how latency can affect ProxySQL in a MySQL Group Replication environment, and outline a few new features that might help mitigate those issues. Before we dive into the specifics of the discussion, however, let’s take a quick overview of ProxySQL and Group Replication for those who may not be familiar.

MySQL Group Replication

Similar in functionality to Percona XtraDB Cluster or Galera, MySQL Group Replication is the only synchronous native HA solution for MySQL*. With built-in automatic distributed recovery, conflict detection, and group membership, MySQL GR provides a completely native HA solution for MySQL environments.

The schedule of the preFOSDEM Day is now available !

We had a lot of proposals to deal with. Also this is a MySQL event where we, the MySQL Team has the possibility to show to you, our Community, all what we have working on to improve MySQL but also new stuff. We also invite some of our friends from the MySQL Community to talk about their experience.

I think we did a good selection and propose you new content. We are extremely happy to have Saverio Miroddi from TicketSolve talking about MySQL 8.0, Uber talking about InnoDB Cluster, and Facebook about Binlog.

As you can see, we will have 2 rooms, where one will be dedicated mostly to SQL and Optimizer topics but also tutorials.

You can also see that this year we also want to put some spot lights to MySQL NDB Cluster. You will see what is it, how is it used and what’s new. We will also have 2 community speakers sharing their MySQL NDB knowledge: Giuseppe Maxia, …

In this post, we will explore one approach to MySQL high availability with ProxySQL, Consul and Orchestrator.

This is a follow up to my previous post about a similar architecture but using HAProxy instead. I’ve re-used some of the content from that post so that you don’t have to go read through that one, and have everything you need in here.

Let’s briefly go over each piece of the puzzle:

– ProxySQL is in charge of connecting the application to the appropriate backend (reader or writer).

It can be installed on each application server directly or we can have an intermediate connection layer with one or more ProxySQL servers. The former probably makes sense if you have a small number of application servers; as the number grows, the latter option becomes more attractive. Another scenario for the …

ProxySQL 2.0.7, released by ProxySQL, is now available for download in the Percona Repository along with Percona’s proxysql-admin tool.

ProxySQL is a high-performance proxy, currently for MySQL and database servers in the MySQL ecosystem (like Percona Server for MySQL and MariaDB). It acts as an intermediary for client requests seeking resources from the database. René Cannaò created ProxySQL for DBAs as a means of solving complex replication topology issues.

This release includes ProxySQL 2.0.7 which introduces many new features and enhancements and also …

MySQL InnoDB Cluster is the most easy and integrated High Availability solution for MySQL.

The solution is composed of:

• MySQL Server
• MySQL Group Replication Plugin
• MySQL Clone Plugin
• MySQL Router
• MySQL Shell

All those components are developed and tested together to provide the easiest and best experience to the MySQL users.

As the MySQL Router is a TCP Level 4 router (like HA Proxy), some users requiring a more “intelligent” proxy having other extra features like caching, read/write splitting in relation with the user or SQL, firewall, … may be interested in using ProxySQL… and this is a good choice !

ProxySQL / MySQL Router in OSI Model

However, even is ProxySQL supports MysQL Group Replication, for …

This post covers Proxysql start up process, Layers and configuration file.

The post ProxySQL Configuration & Startup Process explained first appeared on Change Is Inevitable.

The problem

In PXC 5.6 and 5.7, when using xtrabackup-v2 as the SST method, the DBA must create a user with the appropriate privileges for use by Percona XtraBackup (PXB). The username and password of this backup user are specified in the wsrep_sst_auth variable.

This is a problem because this username and password was being stored in plaintext and required that the configuration file be secured.

The PXC 8.0 solution

(This feature is still under development and may change before PXC 8.0 GA)

Because the wsrep_sst_auth is only needed on the donor side to take a backup, PXC 8.0 uses an internal user (created specifically for use by PXC) with a randomly generated password. Since this user is only needed on the donor, the plaintext password is not needed on the joiner …