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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:

Clickhouse is a relatively new analytics and datawarehouse engine that provides for very quick insertion and analysing of data. Like most analytics platforms it's built on a column-oriented storage basis and unlike many alternatives is completely open source. It's also exceedingly fast, even on relatively modest platforms.

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").

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?

We are honored to be ranked as one of the 10 fastest growing AWS solution providers to watch in the year 2018 by The Technology Headlines.

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.

We are growing!

Consequently, Continuent needs additional talented staff.

We are currently looking for a person who would be a good fit for our "Database Clustering Technical Sales & Support Engineer" position, in the US Pacific timezone.

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

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.