Most of you know, that it is possible to synchronize MySQL and MariaDB servers using replication. But with the latest releases, it is also possible to use more than just two servers as a multi-master setup.
Most of you know that both MySQL and MariaDB support replication in a hierarchical master-slave-setup, to propagate changes across all connected servers.
But with the latest releases, a slave can have more than one master.
The keyword: Multi-Source replication
It is supported from MySQL 5.7 and MariaDB 10.0 on, and this article describes how to set it up.
What does Multi-Source mean?
Multi-Source means, that you can take two or more masters and replicate them to one slave, where their changes will be merged. This works just like the regular MySQL/MariaDB …
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