Just yesterday I wrote about math of automatic failover today I’ll share my thoughts about what makes MySQL failover different from many other components and why asynchronous nature of standard replication solution is causing problems with it. Lets first think about properties of simple components we fail over – web servers, application servers etc. We [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster: Failure Scenarios with only 2 nodes
July 25, 2012 By 6 Comments
During the design period of a new cluster, it is always advised to have at least 3 nodes (this is the case with PXC but it’s also the same with PRM). But why and what are the risks ? The goal of having more than 2 nodes, in fact an odd number is recommended in [...]
Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 GA release
April 3, 2012 By 11 Comments
I am excited to announce the availability of the GA release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is a High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and is based on Percona Server 5.5.20. With this release we make clustering very easy and affordable for everyone. You can convert your existing [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 – Beta release
February 23, 2012 By 10 Comments
I am happy to announce the availability of beta release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and the beta release is based on Percona Server 5.5.20 and the recently released Galera 2.0 GA The main focus in this release: Incremental State Transfer, [...]
Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster (alpha release)
January 9, 2012 By 30 Comments
I am happy to announce the availability of alpha release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and based on Percona Server 5.5.17 Percona XtraDB Cluster provides: Synchronous replication. Transaction either commited on all nodes or none. Multi-master replication. You can write to [...]
Percona Server 5.5.15 + Galera 21.1-beta2
October 3, 2011 By 18 Comments
Codership team published beta2 of MySQL 5.5.15 with Galera replication https://launchpad.net/codership-mysql and we made port to Percona Server: source code: lp:~percona-dev/percona-server/percona-server-galera-5.5.15 binaries for RedHat/CentOS 6: http://www.percona.com/downloads/TESTING/Galera/Percona-XtraDB-Galera-5.5.15.tar.gz What difference between Percona Server+Galera and MySQL 5.5.15 ? First of course, Percona Server+Galera is based on our XtraDB engine. Second, we provide wsrep_sst_xtrabackup script, which allows to use [...]
Product to try: MySQL/MariaDB-Galera 0.8
June 13, 2011 By 34 Comments
I wrote about Galera about 1.5 years ago: State of the art: Galera – synchronous replication for InnoDB. It was about the 0.7 release, which was more like a proof-of-concept release (though Galera’s developers may not agree with that ) with some serious limitations (like using mysqldump for node propagation). The Galera team heard my [...]
The story of one MySQL Upgrade
October 8, 2010 By 8 Comments
I recently worked on upgrading MySQL from one of very early MySQL 5.0 versions to Percona Server 5.1. This was a classical upgrade scenario which can cause surprises. Master and few slaves need to be upgraded. It is a shared database used by tons of applications written by many people over more than 5 years [...]
Debugging problems with row based replication
May 6, 2010 By 12 Comments
MySQL 5.1 introduces row based binary logging. In fact, the default binary logging format in GA versions of MySQL 5.1 is ‘MIXED’ STATEMENT*; The binlog_format variable can still be changed per sessions which means it is possible that some of your binary log entries will be written in a row-based fashion instead of the [...]
MongoDB Approach to database synchronization
April 30, 2010 By 5 Comments
I went to MongoSF today – quite an event, and I hope to have a chance to write more about it. This post is about one replication problem and how MongoDB solves it. If you’re using MySQL Replication when your master goes down it is possible for some writes to be executed on the master, [...]
