Archives: Bridge

Part of the power of Tungsten Clustering for MySQL / MariaDB is its intelligent MySQL Proxy, known as the Tungsten Connector. Tungsten Connector has three main modes, and depending on the type of operations you are performing (such as if you need read-write splitting), we help you choose which mode is best. Hence the question, "How can I tell which Tungsten Connector mode I am using: Bridge, Proxy/Direct or Proxy/SmartScale?"

In this blog post we will discuss how to use the Tungsten Connector keep-alive feature to ensure long-running MySQL & MariaDB/Percona Server client sessions stay connected in a Tungsten Cluster.

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. Affinity is defined as […]

In this blog post, we demonstrate how to convert a single standalone MySQL cluster into a Composite Primary/DR topology running in two data centers.

In this blog post, we talk about what happened during an installation of the Tungsten Cluster into an environment with SELinux running and mis-configured.