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MySQL High Availability Done Right!

There are a number of MySQL HA solutions around. But there really is only one solution that Does MySQL HA Right!

Eero Teerikorpi

Dec 14, 2020

MySQL Clustering Done Right!, Easy DB Operations, Continuous Operations (Local HA), Easy Cluster Management

Geo-MySQL Reality Check: How Galera Cluster Caused Downtime

A telco company recently came to us looking for an improvement to their Galera deployment. Their two main complaints were the unplanned downtime forced by Galera Cluster [aka MariaDB Cluster or Percona XtraDB Cluster], and the lack of reliable geo-scale deployment.

Continuent showed them how our solution, Tungsten Clustering, provides maximum MySQL uptime and is built for geo-scale (active/passive and active/active) MySQL deployments.

Matthew Lang

Apr 29, 2021

MySQL Clustering Competitor Comparisons, Continuous Operations (DR), Geographic Distribution, Zero Downtime Maintenance

Customer Testimony by ProductIP B.V.: From Servers in Hong Kong to Geographic MySQL Database Replication With Continuent Tungsten

ProductIP has been a Continuent customer since November 2014 and is sharing its Continuent experience here: from initially setting up their infrastructure in Hong Kong to running a geographically distributed MySQL database replication and clustering environment with Continuent Tungsten, read about their journey with us in this guest post.

Continuent Team

Dec 17, 2020

MySQL Clustering Use Cases, Cloud (also Multi-Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud), Geographic Distribution, Performance

AWS Re:Invent Talk - Riot Games on Continuent Tungsten

In this AWS re:Invent talk excerpt, Tyler Turk (Infrastructure Engineer, Riot Games) discusses how the Riot team was able to migrate eight disparate database clusters into AWS as a single composite database cluster replicated in four different AWS regions, provisioned with terraform, and managed and operated by Ansible.

Petri Virsunen

Oct 09, 2018

Continuent Company News, Cloud (also Multi-Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud), Continuous Operations (DR), Geographic Distribution

Geo-Distributed Oracle MySQL InnoDB Clusters

Oracle MySQL InnoDB Cluster provides high availability and scalability for MySQL. An InnoDB Cluster consists of 3 or more MySQL instances in a local network with group replication enabled, MySQL Shell which is used for management of the cluster, and optionally MySQL Router to provide basic routing from applications to the cluster. While this provides high availability in a local region or site, it does not provide any provisions for disaster recovery (DR) or any multi-site deployment in general, so let’s explore how we could extend the functionality of InnoDB Cluster to deploy at geo-scale.

Matthew Lang

Sep 21, 2021

MySQL Clustering Done Right!, Continuous Operations (DR), Easy Cluster Management, Geographic Distribution

Testing Time and Test Suites Management: QA for Business-Critical MySQL Clustering

This blog is about testing time and test suites management. “Battle-tested” is the Continuent Tungsten QA (Quality Assurance) guarantee. Continuent Tungsten is a clustering and replication solution for MySQL and MariaDB used by some of the largest MySQL estates to achieve continuous MySQL operations, locally and globally (HA, DR and Geo Distribution). Besides the stellar support team, and fully-integrated components, customers say: “Stability,” and, “Tungsten just works.”