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Use Case: Geo-distributed Multi-master MySQL for Financial Services SaaS Providers

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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Economy up or down, can open source come out on top?

We’ve written about how a bad economy is indeed good for open source software. We’ve also recognized that with open source software’s maturity and place at the enterprise software table, a bad economy can be a double-edged sword for open source since the failure or fade of large enterprise customers, say big banks, hurts open source vendors right alongside traditional software providers.

What is interesting is that after a couple of years of economic rebuilding, we’ve seen recently how open source is being driven by innovation, particularly in cloud computing, …

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