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About Luis Soares

Luis Soares is the MySQL Replication Director at Oracle. His research interests include replication technologies, dependable systems and high availability. Before joining the MySQL team, he was both a post-graduate student and a researcher at the University of Minho, Portugal, where he designed and implemented group-based replication protocols. Before that, he worked for a Portuguese multi-national company as a system analyst. View all posts by Luis Soares →

MySQL Group Replication for 5.7.14

August 2, 2016Group Replication, High Availability, MySQL, ReplicationMySQL, MySQL Group ReplicationLuis Soares

Hi everyone! It has been some time since the last MySQL G roup Replication labs release was out. But the team has not been sitting on its hands. 😉 As such, it is time for a new labs release with new features, bug fixes and improvements across the board.…

Replication in MySQL 5.7 GA

October 27, 2015Group Replication, High Availability, MySQL Replication, ReplicationMySQL, MySQL 5.7, ReplicationLuis Soares

MySQL 5.7 has been recently declared Generally Available and in it there is a set of new replication features. Over the last 6 years MySQL replication has evolved at a tremendous pace. MySQL 5.6 brought us a lot of new replication features, many that were ground breaking and yes, sometimes controversial.…

More Awesome Replication Features in MySQL 5.7.6

March 10, 2015MySQL Replication, ReplicationMySQL, ReplicationLuis Soares

More Awesome Replication Features in 5.7.6

It is time to celebrate again. The latest MySQL server development milestone (MySQL 5.7.6) was just released, and let me tell you, it is full of great replication enhancements. These new improvements cover many areas, ranging from performance to flexibility and easier deployment.…

MySQL Group Replication : Hello World!

September 30, 2014Group Replication, LabsLabs, MySQL, MySQL Group ReplicationLuis Soares

The first preview release of MySQL Group Replication, a MySQL plugin that brings multi-master update everywhere to MySQL, is available on labs. This plugin ties together concepts and technologies from distributed systems, such as group communication, with traditional database replication. The ultimate result is a seamlessly distributed and replicated database over a set of MySQL servers cooperating together to keep the replicated state strongly consistent.…

Multi-source Replication and Multi-threaded Applier Enhancements Preview

September 27, 2014Labs, Performance, ReplicationLabs, MySQL, ReplicationLuis Soares

There are a lot of nice goodies in MySQL 5.7.5 already, but there are also some additional features that we are working on and would like to share with you right now as well. For that we have done a couple of labs releases.…

The Latest and Greatest MySQL Replication Features in MySQL 5.7.5

September 27, 2014Monitoring, Performance Schema, ReplicationMySQL, ReplicationLuis Soares

The latest and greatest MySQL 5.7 development milestone release (DMR) is out (changelog). It is great to see such a strong and steady cadence of development releases. The latest one, 5.7.5, is packed with awesome features. Let me highlight a few ones related to replication.…

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