Our team of MySQL database experts regularly blogs on topics that range from MySQL availability, MySQL replication, multi-master MySQL, and MySQL-aware proxies, all the way through to ‘how to’ content for our solutions: Tungsten Clustering, Tungsten Replicator and Tungsten Proxy.
Asynchronous Replication and Data Loss
We often hear that asynchronous replication creates a possible data loss window, thus it is not an acceptable solution for certain types of applications.
Yes, this is true. In theory, that is.
In practice, we have developed the Tungsten Cluster solution to the point that it really does not happen in real life. Please read this blog to understand why not!