Version 8.0.12 added many great new features to MySQL. One of the new features included is the memory instrumentation of the XCom cache, which allows users to view and monitor the memory utilization of the cache by querying Performance Schema (PS).…
Extending replication instrumentation: an insight on transaction retries
MySQL 8.0.13 improves replication lag monitoring by extending the instrumentation for transaction transient errors. These temporary errors, which include lock timeouts caused by client transactions executing concurrently as the slave is replicating, do not stop the applier thread: instead, they cause a transaction to retry.…
Group Replication: coping with unreliable failure detection
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.…
On-demand primary election
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.…
Setting up MySQL Group Replication with MySQL Docker images
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.…
Protecting your data – Part II: Preventing unwanted data changes on Group Replication members by asynchronous replication channels
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.…
Setting up NDB cluster connection pooling with MySQL Cluster Manager
Cluster connection pooling
The new MySQL Cluster 7.6 GA supports NDB connection pooling – using multiple NDBAPI connections from a single mysqld to NDB – to allow increased concurrency and throughput.
Cluster connection pooling has been supported in MySQL Cluster for quite a while.
…Using –login-path with MySQL Cluster Manager
Protective convenience
Recent versions of MySQL has an added security feature, the –login-path option. This feature puts your username and password in an encrypted file, and you refer clients to this file instead of typing plain text passwords on the console, or putting them in scripts.
Getting started with MySQL Cluster 7.6 using MySQL Cluster Manager 1.4.6
MySQL Cluster 7.6 is GA!
If you’re eager to give the recently announced MySQL Cluster 7.6 GA a spin, I’ll walk you through a quick and simple way to get started using MySQL Cluster Manager 1.4.6.
Bootstrap and go!
- Download and install MCM and MySQL Cluster
- Bootstrap a cluster with MCM
$ mcmd –bootstrap - Connect to the database, and have at it
$ mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3306 -u root
That simple.…
MySQL Cluster 7.6 is Generally Available
It gives us great pleasure to announce that the 7.6 release of MySQL Cluster is now ready for prime time.
MySQL Cluster is the distributed database combining linear scalability and high availability. It provides in-memory real-time access with transactional consistency across partitioned and distributed datasets designed for mission critical applications.…