In 8.0.14, we add to Group Replication (GR) the ability to use IPv6 in all of its network-related configuration parameters. This means that now you can take advantage of this technology and “rock” those billion addresses using MySQL Group Replication.
When you operate a Group Replication group, some variables use network addresses, mainly:
In Group Replication, starting with MySQL 8.0.12, the user is able to specify the behavior for members that enter an error state. The member can either shoot itself on the head or set itself to read-only.
But what does that mean in practice?…
As we showed on the introduction post, in MySQL 8.0.14 Group Replication was once again improved. Now the developer can specify which is the consistency level of all group transactions or even of a single transaction.
Note that this is about consistency in terms of the global synchronization of transactions in the group.…
MySQL 8.0.14 comes with a plethora of new features. Some of the new Group Replication features have user–facing options, some impact user-facing options, and others stay completely under the hood. This post will present one of the under-the-hood changes in MySQL 8.0.14: the way the Group Replication layer interacts with the underlying Group Communication Engine layer, XCom.…
This is a follow up post about the new consistency option of Group Replication group_replication_consistency. We recommend that you first read this post to get an overview of scenarios that can be addressed with this solution.
A group replication cluster will automatically detect failures and adjust the view of the members that are active, i.e., the membership configuration.…
The MySQL Group Replication (GR) feature is a multi-primary update anywhere or single-primary replication plugin for MySQL with built-in conflict detection and resolution, automatic distributed recovery, and group membership.
Its goal it is to make high-availability (HA) simple with off-the-shelf hardware, not only to new applications but also existing ones – that was one of the motivations of the single-primary mode.…
Failure detection is a cornerstone of distributed systems as it determines which components are working properly or not, allowing it to tackle both network and host instabilities and failures. Like many other distributed systems, Group Replication (GR) requires a majority of correctly operating group members to work properly.…
Having a server acting as a primary with multiple secondaries is the most common setup when using Group Replication. Until now though, there was no way to change the current primary member while the group was running without causing some sort of disruption.…
MySQL Group Replication (GR) is a MySQL Server plugin that enables you to create elastic, highly-available, fault-tolerant replication topologies. Groups can operate in a
single-primary mode with automatic primary election, where only one server accepts updates at a time. Alternatively, groups can be deployed in multi-primary mode, where all servers can accept updates, even if they are issued concurrently.…
Further to our earlier blog post about Fail-safe enhancements to Group Replication, where we discussed enhancements against data modification in members which are not ONLINE, we now present here additional changes to protect data from being accidentally modified by asynchronous replication channels.…