All posts by Luis Soares

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.

MySQL Group Replication : Hello World!

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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.…