MySQL/Galera is synchronous multi-master clustering solution for innodb storage engine, offering un-compromised performance and thanks to certification based replication model, scalability even with write intensive work loads.
We have tested MySQL/Galera 0.6 with a number of benchmarks. Here is a summary of sysbench oltp benchmark run on clusters of 1-4 nodes of Amazon EC2 large instances: sysbench results Scalability is remarkable here and many other benchmarks show similar performance gain.
The 0.6 release adds following new features over the earlier Demo-2 release:
- Merged with MySQL 5.1.33
- Full DDL replication using "total order isolation" mode
- Workaround for drupal issue #282555. The fix is simply about retrying the failed autoinc insert query
- ...and some bug fixes to go
The MySQL/galera 0.6 is binary linux release (both 32 and 64 builds available) and is available in: Codership Downloads. This release has passed a number of feature and performance tests .e.g. with Drupal benchmarks.
You can evaluate MySQL/Galera 0.6 with minimal effort. Just install and configure MySQL/Galera in each node in your cluster. Then start group communication daemon and all MySQL servers. MySQL/Galera cluster is functional at this point and you can load your data in one cluster node, data will replicate to whole cluster. Then start your application and connect to any node(s). You can also use load balancer in front to balance connections between nodes. We have good experience with Galera Load Balancer (glb: Codership Downloads), but in practice, any TCP level load balancer will do as well.
Next Galera release will be 0.7 and it is under R&D effort having deadline at the end of June. The 0.7 release will be open sourced and is functionally quite complete, offering.e.g. node join capabilities for the cluster. Galera is cooking good at the moment.
