The replication manager script can be particularly useful in complex PXC/Galera topologies that require Async/Multi-source replication. This will ease the auto source and replica failover to ensure all replication channels are healthy and in sync. If certain nodes shouldn’t be part of a async/multi-source replication, we can disable the replication manager script there to tightly controlled the flow. Alternatively, node participation can be controlled by adjusting the weights in the percona.weight table, allowing replication behavior to be managed more precisely.
27
2026
Automatic “Multi-Source” Async Replication Failover Using PXC Replication Manager
26
2025
Percona XtraDB Cluster: Our Commitment to Open Source High Availability
At Percona, we’ve always been dedicated to providing robust, open source solutions that meet our users’ evolving needs. Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) stands as a testament to this commitment, offering a highly available and scalable solution for your MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL deployments. We understand that database high availability is critical for your […]
26
2025
Percona XtraDB Cluster: Our Commitment to Open Source High Availability
At Percona, we’ve always been dedicated to providing robust, open source solutions that meet our users’ evolving needs. Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) stands as a testament to this commitment, offering a highly available and scalable solution for your MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL deployments. We understand that database high availability is critical for your […]
22
2025
Using Blue/Green Deployment For (near) Zero-Downtime Primary Key Updates in RDS MySQL
Large tables can pose challenges for many operations when working with a database. Occasionally, we may need to modify the table definition. Since RDS replication does not use asynchronous for its replication, the typical switchover procedure is not feasible. However, the Blue/Green feature of RDS utilizes asynchronous replication, which allows us to update the table […]
11
2024
MongoDB: High Availability Topology for a Multi-Region Setting
MongoDB high availability is essential to ensure reliability, customer satisfaction, and business resilience in an increasingly interconnected and always-on digital environment. Ensuring high availability for database systems introduces complexity, as databases are stateful applications. Adding a new operational node to a cluster can take hours or even days, depending on the dataset size. This is […]
14
2024
Effective Strategies for Recovering MySQL Group Replication From Failures
Group replication is a fault-tolerant/highly available replication topology that ensures if the primary node goes down, one of the other candidates or secondary members takes over so write and read operations can continue without any interruptions. However, there are some scenarios where, due to outages, network partitions, or database crashes, the group membership could be broken, or we end […]
29
2024
Valkey/Redis: Setting Up Replication
In most database systems, like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, replication of some kind is used to create a highly available architecture. Valkey/Redis is no different in this regard. Replication is native functionality to Valkey, supporting multiple replicas, and even chains of replication.To clear up any confusion, understand that Valkey replication is a different concept compared […]
21
2024
High Availability: Choosing the Right Option for Your Percona Monitoring and Management
Ensuring your monitoring system stays up and running is vital. High availability (HA) minimizes downtime for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) during hardware failures, in times of disaster recovery, or increased usage of the tool. It’s not just about extra storage, RAM, or CPU but rather having redundant systems ready to take over seamlessly, like […]
08
2024
Mastering Database Monitoring: Running PMM in High Availability Mode
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) has become a valuable tool for database professionals, providing comprehensive insights into database health and performance. A recent update (version 2.41.0) introduced a significant enhancement: the ability to run PMM in high availability (HA) mode. This feature, currently in technical preview, offers exciting possibilities for ensuring the reliability and robustness […]
11
2024
Is MySQL Router 8.2 Any Better?
In my previous article, Comparisons of Proxies for MySQL, I showed how MySQL Router was the lesser performing Proxy in the comparison. From that time to now, we had several MySQL releases and, of course, also some new MySQL Router ones.Most importantly, we also had MySQL Router going back to being a level 7 proxy […]