Introduction

Now that Galera Cluster 5.7 GA has been released, let’s take a look at some features in MySQL 5.7 that improve Galera performance or allow new workloads and applications to be Galera-enabled.

Spatial indexes come to InnoDB and Galera

Previously, only MyISAM tables could have indexes on spatial columns. Starting with 5.7, it is now possible to use spatial indexes with InnoDB tables as well. This way applications in the areas of GIS, geo-location, mapping, etc. can take advantage of Galera replication for their spatial data.

CREATE TABLE geometry_table (
    geometry_column GEOMETRY NOT NULL,
    SPATIAL INDEX(geometry_column)
) ENGINE=InnoDB;

It is also possible to migrate existing spatial data stored in MyISAM or replicated using traditional asynchronous replication to InnoDB and Galera.

JSON support

If you have previously considered using another database …

Last year Codership produced a lot of valuable content to help Galera users to get started with Galera and manage Galera. We have gathered  the resources to our website.

Taking Full Advantage of Galera Multi-Master replication video can be watched here.

We have now uploaded Slideshare with many new presentations. Check them out!

The best source of multi-master Galera Cluster help,  Galera Cluster documentation, is being updated constantly.

Helsinki, Finland & London, UK  – January 9th 2017 – Codership, whose Galera Cluster technology brings high availability (HA) and scalability to open source databases worldwide, has seen its technology break the one million download barrier. Codership’s customer roster has grown over 100 percent thanks to the adoption of OpenStack by enterprises and the recent strategic partnership with MariaDB.

Galera has been recognised as the most widely used OpenStack High Availability technology for the second year in a row. According to the OpenStack Survey 2016, one-third of users rely on Galera Clusters running on MariaDB and MySQL.

To cope with an increase of customer demand coming from various industries such as financial services, retail and telecoms, Codership has grown its engineering hires by 50 percent. The new team members will ensure Galera continues to deliver on its mission to …

Description

This webinar will be the second in our series on best practices to follow when using Galera Cluster.

In this part, we will discuss important topics related to multi-master setups:
* Practical considerations when using Galera in a multi-master setup
* Evaluating the characteristics of your database workload
* Preparing your application for multi-master
* Detecting and dealing with transaction conflicts

This is a webinar presented by Codership, the developers and experts of Galera Cluster.

DATE AND TIME FOR USA:  Tuesday, 9-10 AM PST (Pacific ), 13th of December

REGISTER TO USA WEBINAR WITH THIS LINK 

DATE AND TIME FOR …

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Software Packaging EngineerJob Description & Main Responsibilities

Codership is looking for a part-time Build and Packaging Engineer. We use Jenkins to build various packages for multiple distros and the engineer will take ownership of the build pipeline and extend it to cover additional platforms and testing scenarios.

There are plenty of interesting problems to tackle on the job, from crafting .spec files with complex dependencies to automatically testing no-downtime rolling upgrades of a distributed system.

Main Responsibilities

•  take the ownership of and maintain Galera Cluster packages on Linux (.RPM and .DEB) and BSD

• maintain the automatic package building pipeline and extend it to cover additional platforms and testing scenarios

Desired Skills & Requirements

• knowledge of …

Codership’s Galera Cluster Best Practices Webinar for MySQL DBAs and DevOps Part One is now available to watch here

Codership is pleased to announce the release of Galera Cluster 5.5.49 and 5.6.30 with Galera Replication library 3.16, implementing wsrep API version 25.

The library is now available as targeted packages and package repositories for a number of Linux distributions including RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE and SLES. Obtaining packages using a package repository removes the need to download individual files and facilitates the deployment and upgrade of Galera nodes.

This and future releases will be available from http://www.galeracluster.com. The source repositories and bug tracking are now on http://www.github.com/codership .

This release incorporates all changes up to MySQL 5.5.49 and 5.6.30.

New features and notable fixes in Galera replication since last binary release by Codership (3.15):

• a counter is now used to track the number of desync operations currently running
…

Once again Galera Cluster is a popular topic at Percona Live 2016. There are 7 Galera Cluster presentations in Percona Live Santa Clara 18-21.4. Codership’s co-founder and Galera developer Seppo Jaakola talks about Schema Upgrades in Galera Cluster, 20 April 01:00 PM – 01:50 PM @ Ballroom A.  The number includes many Percona XtraDB Cluster presentations, which is based on Codership’s Galera Cluster.

Codership will also have a booth at the conference. Meet the developers and experts of Galera Cluster and visit our booth 507!

Tuesday 19 April

Orchestrating Percona XtraDB Cluster with Kubernetes (Raghavendra Prabhu)  3:50 PM – 04:40 PM @ Ballroom D

Percona XtraDB Cluster Reference Architecture 2016 (Jay …

AGENDA:

In this webinar, we will discuss the practical aspects of migrating a database setup based on traditional asynchronous replication to multi-master Galera Cluster. We will discuss the benefits Galera provides and how traditional replication settings, architecture and practices can be converted to Galera Cluster. We will show the steps that are needed to perform the migration with limited or no downtime, and will demonstrate the procedure in practice using a live database with an actual workload.

Galera Cluster is trusted by thousands of users. Galera Cluster powers Percona XtraDB Cluster and MariaDB Enterprise Cluster. This is a webinar presented by Codership, the developers and experts of Galera Cluster.

DATE AND TIME FOR USA:  Tue, Apr 12, 2016 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT (Pacific time)

PRESENTERS: Philip Stoev, Sakari Keskitalo …