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.…
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Replication Features in MySQL 8.0.1
MySQL 8.0.1 has just been released with a wonderful set of features across the board. Specifically in replication, there is plenty of new and exciting functionality as well as performance improvements. In this post I am going to summarize the replication features of this development milestone release.…
MySQL Group Replication : It’s in 5.7.17 GA!
Extremely exciting news! A big day today. In case you have missed it, MySQL Group Replication has made it into the MySQL 5.7.17 release. Thus, it is now GA.
The MySQL Group Replication feature is a multi-master update anywhere replication plugin for MySQL with built-in conflict detection and resolution, automatic distributed recovery, and group membership.…
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.…
MySQL Group Replication for 5.7.14
Hi everyone! It has been some time since the last MySQL Group 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
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
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!
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
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
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.…