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Welcome to the wonderful world of open source! You really are on your own, even if you think you acquire a solution that works. But many of the companies offering solutions based on open source components wrapped with expensive consulting engagements really can’t help you as they are not the original developers of some of the important core components, thus they do not have the necessary skills to fix them either.Welcome to the wonderful world of open source! You really are on your own, even if you think you acquire a solution that works. But many of the companies offering solutions based on open source components wrapped with expensive consulting engagements really can’t help you as they are not the original developers of some of the important core components, thus they do not have the necessary skills to fix them either.

Instead of contributing back to the original project, and in that way benefitting the project as a whole, Percona takes over smaller open-source projects (such as Galera) and larger open source projects (MySQL, MongoDB), then adds some small enhancements (especially when compared to the work done by the original developers), slaps its own name on it and proceeds to make some negative comments against those who have done the hardest work.

There are two key elements (which often separate us from many other open source operators, such as Percona) to our MySQL HA/DR and Continuous Operations solutions. Read this blog, adapted from the June “Word from the CEO” from the Continuent Newsletter to find out what distinguishes Continuent’s Tungsten Clustering solution in the open source MySQL database industry.

Migrating from Galera to Tungsten Clustering is easy with the tools provided by Tungsten Clustering. Because replication happens in the background, applications can stay online with a quick cutover to Tungsten Clustering when ready.

For the sixth in the Competitor Comparison series in which we look at the main solutions for MySQL high availability, disaster recovery and geographic distribution, I got a chance to interview Matt Lang, Customer Success Director, Americas at Continuent. We focused on highly available, geo-scale, multi-region MySQL for mission-critical sites and apps with Do-it-Yourself (DIY) solutions as compared to MySQL clustering with Continuent Tungsten, the only complete, fully-integrated clustering solution for MySQL - on-premises, in the cloud, hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud.

https://www.continuent.com/products/tungsten-clustering/competitive-comparisonWhy do Continuent customers say year after year that Tungsten Clustering is a better MySQL HA/DR/Geo-Scale clustering and replication technology - in the cloud, on-prem, hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud - compared to alternatives such as Amazon Aurora for MySQL, Galera Cluster and host of others? We have put together a comprehensive comparison so you can learn about the pros and cons of various MySQL solutions for business-critical and mission-critical apps - and make an informed decision about what’s best for your needs and environment!

This blog provides a refresher outline of what’s involved in our Tungsten Cluster Competitive Comparison program and Tungsten Cluster highlights as well. Read on and find out why Tungsten Cluster is a better and more cost-effective overall MySQL HA/DR/Geo-Scale solution compared to other options in the market.

This blog post outlines our new annual Tungsten Clustering pricing model for Tungsten Cluster software subscriptions and related 24/7 support.

This is the kick-off of our Tungsten MySQL Use Case Webinar Series presented by Continuent CEO Eero Teerikorpi. Our first three webinars offer a choice of topics ranging from Global MySQL Availability, MySQL Data Protection to MySQL High Availability.

Following on from our recent newsletter and the message from Eero Teerikorpi, Founder and CEO, in this blog I will set out the outline and plan for the work we are currently undertaking to make a number of changes within the terminology used in our product and communications.

Do-it-Yourself (DIY), database migration; what other approaches are there to challenges of MySQL availability, reliability, scalability and application performance?

Continuent Tungsten enables greater application availability and performance especially across WAN, it saves tons of manual labor and headache, it’s backed by premium 24/7/365 support, and it enables all sorts of new freedom and possibilities for data infrastructure including multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud, and advanced, real-time analytics.

People approach Continuent for many reasons, including: MySQL Continuous Operations: their business is using MySQL for business-critical applications that require zero downtime, including for maintenance updates MySQL Performance: their application performance and user experience are suffering due to a faltering MySQL backend