Practical Demos: Launching Single, Active/Passive or Active/Active 3-Node Clusters
This post shares the links to three short demo videos, each an easy-to-follow walk-through of how to launch 3-node single, active/passive or active/active Tungsten MySQL clusters using AWS CloudFormation.
Geo-MySQL Reality Check: How Galera Cluster Caused Downtime
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.
Database Proxies: Where to Deploy and How Many?
Customers often ask where they should install their MySQL, MariaDB, or Percona MySQL database proxies for high availability clusters, and how many. What is optimal for you may not be the right configuration for everyone. However there are some best practices we’ll discuss in this basic blog about deploying MySQL database proxies.
Long Live Backups! The Role of Recovery in a Continuous MySQL Environment
The new role of recovery (RPO and RTO) in a continuous, highly available MySQL environment?
Do-it-Yourself (DIY) vs. Tungsten Clustering for MySQL High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR) and Geographic Distribution
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.
How to Replicate Securely and in Real-Time From MySQL to Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift has been providing scalable, quick-to-access analytics platforms for many years, but the question remains: how do you get the data from your existing datastore into Redshift for processing? This blog looks at that question by providing some background information on Redshift replication as well as details on how to easily replicate from MySQL to Redshift.
Real-Time Big Data Analytics: How to Replicate from MySQL to Hadoop
It’s Hadoop’s 15th birthday and we’re looking at how to easily replicate from MySQL to Hadoop and why in this blog on real-time big data analytics.
How to Replicate from MySQL to MongoDB (incl. MongoDB Atlas)
Read about MySQL to MongoDB / MongoDB Atlas replication: what it’s all about, why it’s needed and how it works.
Deep Dive: How to Easily Deploy MySQL Clusters With The Tungsten Cluster AMI
Read this blog to get a more in-depth understanding of what the Tungsten Cluster AMI is, how it works and how to use it in order to easily deploy MySQL database clusters and more.
Flex Your Tungsten Replicator: Two New Roles
In this blog post, we explore how the two new Tungsten Replicator roles allow for THL transfer when not actively extracting or applying events. This new behavior provides for better control and performance under a variety of conditions.
How Replication Between MySQL & Kafka Works: Replicating Data in Real-Time from MySQL, MariaDB or Percona Server to Kafka
Read this blog to learn about replication between MySQL and Apache Kafka: what it’s all about, how it works, and the tools to use to make it work smoothly.
Tungsten Proxy Routing: A Matter of Affinity
How the Continuent Proxy selects database cluster nodes for executing read operations.