MySQL Cluster Performance Validation via Load Testing
Your MySQL database cluster contains your most business-critical data; in this post, we discuss how to ensure proper performance under load.
Essential MySQL Cluster Monitoring Using Nagios and NRPE
This post covers some standard Nagios checks that would keep your MySQL / MariaDB / Percona Server cluster nodes healthy.
AWS Re:Invent Talk - Riot Games on Continuent Tungsten
Archive and Standby: Do More with Your MySQL Slave Replicas!
This blog discusses some of the ways you can configure your MySQL / MariaDB / Percona Server slaves using Tungsten Clustering.
Global Multi-Primary MySQL Cluster Monitoring Using Nagios and NRPE
A robust monitoring setup is essential for cluster health and viability - if your replicator goes offline and you do not know about it, then that Replica becomes effectively useless because it has stale data. This means keeping a close watch on the health of the MySQL / MariaDB / Percona Server database nodes from many perspectives, from ensuring sufficient disk space to testing that replication traffic is flowing.
Worldwide Multimaster MySQL Cluster Administration Using Tungsten Dashboard
Tungsten Clustering offers a graphical administration tool called the Tungsten Dashboard™ to help with your management burden. The GUI makes the deployment much easier to visualize and administer.
Mastering Tungsten Replicator Series: Tasty THL Tips - unsafe_for_block_commit
The Tungsten Replicator is an extraordinarily powerful and flexible tool capable of moving vast volumes of data from source to target.
In this blog post we will discuss one specific aspect of the THL (Transaction History Log) - the METADATA unsafe_for_block_commit flag.
MySQL / MariaDB Clustering: Seamless Master Switch with Tungsten Clustering
One nice thing about Tungsten Clustering is that you need just a single command to move the master role to another host in your cluster.
Tungsten Dashboard for Clustering 1.0.1 Released
Continuent is pleased to announce that Tungsten Dashboard v1.0.1 is now available!
Our Dashboard v1.0.1-36 is a bug fix release that also contains a few improvements. Some of the highlights include:
MySQL / MariaDB Clustering with Tungsten: Failover Focus
In this blog post, we discuss failover concepts and administration.
New Feature in Tungsten Clustering 6.0.3: Tungsten Connector Read Affinity Tuning
In this blog post, we describe the new Read Affinity tuning feature of the Tungsten Connector.
Tungsten Connector read affinity now supports multiple dataservices with ordering and exclusion (only one was previously allowed).
You may now fine-tune the affinity per user in user.map and via the global tpm configuration option connector-affinity.
Tungsten Clustering 6.0.3 and Tungsten Replicator 6.0.3 Released
Continuent is pleased to announce that Tungsten Clustering 6.0.3 and Tungsten Replicator 6.0.3 are now available!