This is the next blog in our competitor comparison series in which we look at the main solutions for MySQL high availability, disaster recovery and geographic distribution. Here we focus on highly available, geo-scale, multi-region MySQL for mission-critical sites and apps with ClusterControl as compared to MySQL clusters with Continuent Tungsten, the only complete, fully-integrated clustering solution for MySQL - on-premises, in the cloud, hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud.

Disasters are waiting to happen. Like OVH data center fire on March 9, 2021. Do you have a solid MySQL Disaster Recovery (DR) plan in place to activate when the time inevitably comes?

If not, Continuent is happy to review your current MySQL HA/DR deployment and to recommend possible changes that might be recommended. Naturally, free of charge.

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.

The new role of recovery (RPO and RTO) in a continuous, highly available MySQL environment?

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.

This is the fifth blog in our ‘High Noon’ comparison series in which we look at the main solutions for MySQL high availability, disaster recovery and geographic distribution. Here we focus on highly available, geo-scale, multi-region MySQL for mission-critical sites and apps with Oracle’s InnoDB Cluster as compared to MySQL clusters with Continuent Tungsten, the only complete, fully-integrated clustering solution for MySQL - on-premises, in the cloud, hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud.

This is the next in our ‘High Noon’ comparison series in which we look at the main solutions for MySQL high availability, disaster recovery and geographic distribution. Here we focus on highly available, geo-scale, multi-region MySQL for mission-critical sites and apps with Microsoft Azure Database for MySQL as compared to native MySQL, MariaDB clusters with Continuent Tungsten in the cloud, hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud or on-premises.

This is the next blog in our ‘High Noon’ comparison series in which we look at the main solutions for MySQL high availability, disaster recovery and geographic distribution. Here we focus on highly available, geo-scale, multi-region MySQL for mission-critical sites and apps with Google Cloud (GCP) for MySQL as compared to MySQL, MariaDB clusters with Continuent Tungsten, the only complete, fully-integrated clustering solution for MySQL - on-premises, in the cloud, hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud.

This is the second blog in our ‘High Noon’ comparison series in which we look at the main solutions for MySQL high availability, disaster recovery and geographic distribution. Here we focus on highly available, geo-scale, multi-region MySQL for mission-critical sites and apps with Codership’s Galera and its variants (MariaDB Galera and Percona XtraDB Cluster) as compared to MySQL clusters with Continuent Tungsten, the only complete, fully-integrated solution for highly-available MySQL clustering solution - for any version of MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona Server - on-premises, in the cloud, hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud.

This blog discusses Asynchronous versus Synchronous MySQL replication for MySQL clustering. Synchronous replication is viewed as the ‘holy grail’ of clustering. But unfortunately, when something is too good to be true, it often is. Before the Tungsten cluster solution Continuent built two synchronous replication cluster solutions (m/cluster, uni/cluster), but we abandoned those for good reasons.

“We don’t take backups, we use replication instead.” If you happen to agree with this statement, I urge you to continue reading. But even if you think you have a good backup plan, I still urge you to continue reading. Taking backups is usually not one of the most exciting parts of the job, but it might be the part that saves your company from a catastrophe. So, let’s make a plan!

Disaster Recovery for Continuous MySQL Operations does not have to be hard, but it does have to be WAN: Multi-Site, Hybrid-Cloud, Multi-Cloud. This blog discusses Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, or “DR,” and an overlooked clustering feature that makes continuous database operations easy, affordable, and manageable.