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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.

What is the difference between MySQL replication and MySQL clustering? While clustering involves a layer of replication, the capabilities, benefits, and reasons for using clustering versus replication are very different. At Continuent, we offer both clustering and replication for your MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona MySQL - in the cloud, on-prem, hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud, with no application changes or downtime necessary.

“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.

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

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

Now available on demand: Watch the Continuent Tungsten MySQL Use Case Webinar Series for 2020 with Eero Teerikorpi, Founder & CEO of Continuent.

Watch the replay of this Zero Downtime MySQL use case webinar with Continuent CEO Eero Teerikorpi and find out how Kentucky Lottery achieved continuous MySQL operations with high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery using a Composite Active/Passive Tungsten Clustering Topology.

Join the replay of this webinar which discusses the use of geo-distributed active/active MySQL clusters for Telco providers, and on how to cost-effectively provide worldwide mobile roaming access with cloud-based Tungsten MySQL clusters.

Watch the replay of this webinar about geo-distributed active/active MySQL replication for Financial Services SaaS Providers and on how to guarantee credit card transaction availability with geo-distributed Tungsten MySQL clusters.

You can now watch the replay of our High Volume MySQL HA Use Case Webinar: SaaS Continuous Operations with Terabytes of Data; and learn how to guarantee continuous operations for a SaaS provider with billions of daily transaction and terabytes of data with Tungsten MySQL Clusters.

Watch the replay of this use case webinar to learn about the high availability & disaster recovery challenges companies face when managing single sign-on, large-scale e-commerce portals; and/or sign up for one of our other upcoming use case webinars in this series.