What are things you must consider before using Galera Cluster Streaming Replication ?
In Streaming Replication, the node breaks the transaction into fragments, then certifies and replicates them on the slaves while the transaction is still in progress. Once certified, the fragment can no longer be aborted by conflicting transactions. Additionally, Streaming Replication allows the node to process transaction write-sets greater than 2Gb. So, How do you decide whether go with Galera Cluster Streaming Replication or not ? We caution our customers before choosing Galera Cluster Streaming Replication considering several limitations and costs attached to it (explained below the limitations of Galera Cluster Streaming Replication in this post). Even you have decided to proceed with Galera Cluster Streaming Replication, We recommend you to enable it only for a session-level and then only on specific transactions.
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