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 you may have noticed by now, we are continuously improving and enhancing the experience of managing a MySQL server. Furthermore, we have also released tools, such as MySQL shell, that make advanced and distributed setups like creating, deploying, and running clusters of InnoDB instances, seamless to the end user.…
Replication topologies, whether master-slave or group replication setups, may be composed of servers using different MySQL versions.
In MySQL 8.0.14, each transaction’s immediate and original server versions are now visible in the binary log as session variables. These two new variables, fully managed by the replication infrastructure, are used to support cross-version replication by transmitting the MySQL server release numbers associated with each transaction through the replication topology:
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.…
MySQL 8.0.14 is out and it contains some new and very interesting replication enhancements. As always, we are very pleased to share with you the details about the exciting new features in this release.
This blog post will provide you a summary of the features and subsequent blog posts will dive into the mechanics and details of each one.…
Overview
MCM 1.4.7 continues to improve MySQL Cluster Manager by adding some sought after features – and some important bugfixes.
The 1.4.7 release bundles MySQL Cluster 7.6.8.…
