A new Group Replication plugin labs release has came out, a little over a week ago. Exciting news! 😉 This shows that the team has been working hard to shape up the plugin so that it meets the required feature set, performance and quality standards to be released as GA.…
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MySQL Group Replication: securing the perimeter!
Hi all, here is a new post following the blog series on the last MySQLvGroup Replication labs release which already presented: 1) the new features; 2) most asked questions; 3) summary of behaviour and configuration changes; and 4) the performance improvements.…
MySQL Group Replication for 5.7.14
Hi everyone! It has been some time since the last MySQL Group Replication labs release was out. But the team has not been sitting on its hands. 😉 As such, it is time for a new labs release with new features, bug fixes and improvements across the board.…
Good Leaders are game changers: Raft & Paxos
Introduction
Consensus is a key component to providing fault-tolerant services such as synchronously replicated data stores, non-blocking atomic commitment and Paxos and Raft are among the most popular consensus algorithms. Paxos has been widely studied by researchers while Raft has become very popular among engineers.…
MySQL Router on Labs – The Newest Member of the MySQL family
The MySQL team are busily working on improving ways to use MySQL in scalable highly available systems. As most of you are already aware, the MySQL Group Replication project is progressing at full speed. Indeed, we just got preview release 0.5 out, while Fabric 1.5.6 was just released and work is ongoing for the Fabric 1.6 release.…
MySQL Utilities release-1.5.5 GA
The MySQL Utilities Team is pleased to announce the latest general availability (GA) release of MySQL Utilities. This release includes a number of improvements for usability, stability, and a few enhancements. A complete list of all improvements can be found in our release notes.…
MySQL 5.7.6: It is easier to switch master now!
Introduction
One of the primary objectives of MySQL replication is providing an easy failover process i.e. switching to a redundant system if the primary MySQL server fails. In MySQL this translates to switching to the most appropriate slave server in the eventuality of a failure of the master server.…
MySQL-5.7.6: Introducing Multi-source replication
On March 10, 2015, we released MySQL-5.7.6 and among many other things it includes multi-source replication which provides the ability for a MySQL slave server to replicate from more than one MySQL master. We have been very careful with multi-source replication in terms of what exactly our users want and we have tried our best to incorporate as much feedback as possible.…
Purging and Rotating Logs Made Easy with MySQL Utilities
The MySQL Utilities team is happy to introduce a new MySQL utility named ‘mysqlbinlogpurge‘, which allows users to easily and safely purge binary logs on a master by determining the binary logs that are obsolete. This utility is included in MySQL Utilities
release-1.6.1 Alpha release along with ‘mysqlslavetrx‘ and ‘mysqlbinlogrotate‘.…
release-1.6.1 Alpha release along with ‘mysqlslavetrx‘ and ‘mysqlbinlogrotate‘.…
Announcing MySQL Utilities release-1.5.4 GA!
The MySQL Utilities Team is pleased to announce the general availability (GA) release of MySQL Utilities. This release includes a number of improvements for useabilty, stability, and a few enhancements. A complete list of all improvements can be found in our release notes.…