We will have a kiosk at Moscone Center, south exhibition hall, Oracle’s Data Management area number 123, close to high availability area and exits 16 and 18. Our kiosk number is DBA-P1.

Our CEO and Co-Founder Seppo Jaakola will host a presentation highlighting the main features of our upcoming Galera Cluster 4.0. The presentation will take place Monday, Oct 22, 1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m at the Exchange @ Moscone South – Theater 2. Seats are limited!

Come and meet us! Let’s discuss your MySQL high availability plan or your Galera Cluster deployment. If you want to set up a meeting with us please email to ínfo@galeracluster.com for a meeting request.

UPDATE: Some of the language in the original post was considered overly-critical of Oracle by some community members. This was not my intent, and I’ve modified the language to be less so. I’ve also changed term “synchronous” (which the use of is inaccurate and misleading) to “virtually synchronous.” This term is more accurate and already used by both technologies’ founders, and should be less misleading.

I also wanted to thank Jean-François Gagné for pointing out the incorrect sentence about multi-threaded slaves in Group Replication, which I also corrected accordingly.

In today’s blog post, I will briefly compare two major virtually synchronous replication technologies available today for MySQL.

More Than Asynchronous Replication

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This blog post discusses what is going on in the MySQL high availability market, and what Percona’s plans are for helping customers with high availability solutions.

One thing I like to tell people is that you shouldn’t view Percona as a “software” company, but as a “solution” company. Our goal has always been to provide the best solution that meets each customer’s situation, rather than push our own software, regardless of whether it is the best fit or not. As a result, we have customers running all kinds of MySQL “flavors”: MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server, Amazon RDS and Google Cloud SQL. We’re happy to help customers be successful with the technology of their choice, and advise them on alternatives when we see a better fit.

One area where I …

Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.16

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB Galera Cluster?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.16. This is a Stable (GA) release.

See the …

The 2014 edition of Percona Live London brought together attendees from 30 countries to hear insightful talks from leaders in the MySQL community. The conference kicked off on Monday with a full day of tutorials followed by the very popular Community Dinner featuring a double decker bus shuttle from the conference to the event.

Tuesday started with keynote talks by representatives from MySQL, VMware, HGST, Codership, and Percona. I particularly enjoyed the talks by Tomas Ulin of MySQL (which highlighted the upcoming MySQL 5.7 release) and Robert Hodges of VMware (which focused on the evolution of MySQL). The remainder of the day was filled by six time slots of breakout sessions (30 sessions in all) broken into 10 tracks. The day wrapped up with the always popular Community Networking Reception. Attesting to the …

I’ve been blogging a lot about some of the new things you can expect with Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 and Galera 3.x – and GA is coming …

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera 5.5.33a. This is a Stable (GA) release. See the Release Notes and Changelog for detailed information on this release and the Galera section of the MariaDB Knowledge Base for general information about Galera Cluster.

Download MariaDB Galera 5.5.33a

Release Notes …

Today we’re pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster!

With this release, we’re addressing the numerous requests we’ve received over the past few months for a MariaDB-based Galera Cluster. MariaDB, the more reliable, performant, feature-complete & backwards compatible MySQL database becomes even more attractive by making it available for Galera Cluster.

What is it?

• A straight merge of MariaDB 5.5.25 with Galera Cluster by Codership
• An alpha release which should not be used in production environments
• Using the Galera replication methodology, users get:
  • Synchronous, multi-master replication with guaranteed data consistency
  • This solution provides both read & write scalability

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