Blog Category: Tungsten Clustering

Continuent is pleased to announce that Tungsten Clustering 5.3.6 and Tungsten Replicator 5.3.6 are now available!

Our 5.3.6 release fixes a number of bugs and has been released to improve stability.

Highlights common to both products:

Continuent is pleased to announce that Tungsten Clustering 6.0.4 and Tungsten Replicator 6.0.4 are now available!

Our v6.0.4 release fixes a number of bugs and introduces some new features, with improvements across the board in a variety of different components.

Some of the key improvements include:

When deploying Tungsten Clustering for MySQL / MariaDB / Percona Server, we always recommend an odd number of Manager nodes in each cluster. Let's take a look at how having an odd number of Managers helps keep a Tungsten Cluster functioning and avoids data corruption scenarios (i.e. "split brain").

When Tungsten Replicator extracts data, the information that has been extracted is written down into the Tungsten History Log, or THL.

You already know about the Tungsten Connector which is the "secret sauce" that routes your application database traffic to the appropriate MySQL data source of your cluster. Have you ever wondered how the Connector keeps track of the cluster configuration? How it always knows which host is the master (or masters in a Composite Multimaster topology), and which are slaves?

Enterprises require high availability for their business-critical applications. Even the smallest unplanned outage or even a planned maintenance operation can cause lost sales, productivity, and erode customer confidence. Additionally, updating and retrieving data needs to be robust to keep up with user demand.

One important way to protect your MySQL / MariaDB / Percona Server data is to keep your Tungsten Clustering software up-to-date; but how can you achieve this with zero-downtime?

Learn about the two different methods for installing, updating and upgrading Tungsten Clustering software for MySQL / MariaDB / Percona Server.

Continuent is pleased to announce that Tungsten Clustering 5.3.4 and Tungsten Replicator 5.3.4 are now available!

Release 5.3.4 was released shortly after 5.3.3 due to a specific bug in our reporting tool tpm diag. All of the major changes except this one fix are in the 5.3.3 release.

Our 5.3.3/4 release fixes a number of bugs and has been released to improve stability in certain parts of the products.

Highlights common to both products:

Your MySQL database cluster contains your most business-critical data; in this post, we discuss how to ensure proper performance under load.

This post covers some standard Nagios checks that would keep your MySQL / MariaDB / Percona Server cluster nodes healthy.

This blog discusses some of the ways you can configure your MySQL / MariaDB / Percona Server slaves using Tungsten Clustering.