Great news! MySQL 8.0.3 is out and it is a release candidate. In the replication team we have been busy working on interesting new enhancements and also doing some clean up. Some of these new features are out in this release.…
Category Archives: Group Replication
Group Replication: Prioritise member for the Primary Member Election
In initial Group Replication release, 5.7.17, we included the Single-Primary Mode with automatic membership and fail-over features. The MySQL Server 8.0.2 release has brought further enhancement to Group Replication Single-Primary Mode that will allow users to influence primary member election using integer member weight value.…
Group Replication – Extending Group Replication performance_schema tables
In MySQL 8.0.2, users will see the additional columns in the existing Group Replication Performance Schema tables which will provide extended information about Group Replication. Now user can view role and MySQL version of each member of the group, which earlier required a complex set of query.…
Protecting your data! Fail-safe enhancements to Group Replication.
Group Replication has been around for some time now and the feedback from community is overwhelming. One of the suggestions (BUG#84795) received is related to deploying a mechanism to prevent a server from being updated after stopping group replication.…
Replication Features in MySQL 8.0.2
MySQL 8 is shaping up quite nicely. And we are having a blast in the MySQL replication team while this is happening. We are continuously improving all-things-replication by introducing new and interesting features. In addition, we have been listening to our community and addressing their feedback.…
Group Replication support SAVEPOINT
Group Replication has been around as GA for some months now. Nonetheless, work continues and now we are happy to let you know that you can now use transaction savepoints when write-set extraction is enabled.
This enhancement was released as in MySQL 8.0.1.…
Performance Evaluation: MySQL 5.7 Group Replication (GA Release)
Great news: Group Replication is now officially released with MySQL 5.7.17, congratulations to everybody that worked so hard for it!
In this post I plan to share more details about the performance of Group Replication while addressing one of our frequently asked questions, which is how it performs compared to Galera.…
Zooming-in on Group Replication performance
A previous blog post exposed the main factors affecting Group Replication performance, which was followed by another that showed the scalability of both single-master and multi-master throughput. In this post we return with more “inside information” that may be useful for optimizing the performance of Group Replication deployments.…
Order from Chaos: Member Coordination in Group Replication
We are very excited about the next release of MySQL Group Replication 0.9.0 in MySQL 5.7.15 and the great work that has been done to improve its stability. Release after release, MySQL Group Replication becomes more stable and more user-friendly and has reached a maturity level that made us declare 0.9.0 a release candidate.…
MySQL Group Replication: Extended Technical Documentation
A new Group Replication plugin labs release has came out, a little over a week ago. Exciting news! 😉 This shows that the team has been working hard to shape up the plugin so that it meets the required feature set, performance and quality standards to be released as GA.…