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Disasters are waiting to happen. Like OVH data center fire on March 9, 2021. Do you have a solid MySQL Disaster Recovery (DR) plan in place to activate when the time inevitably comes?

If not, Continuent is happy to review your current MySQL HA/DR deployment and to recommend possible changes that might be recommended. Naturally, free of charge.

This post shares the links to three short demo videos, each an easy-to-follow walk-through of how to launch 3-node single, active/passive or active/active Tungsten MySQL clusters using AWS CloudFormation.

A telco company recently came to us looking for an improvement to their Galera deployment. Their two main complaints were the unplanned downtime forced by Galera Cluster [aka MariaDB Cluster or Percona XtraDB Cluster], and the lack of reliable geo-scale deployment. 

Continuent showed them how our solution, Tungsten Clustering, provides maximum MySQL uptime and is built for geo-scale (active/passive and active/active) MySQL deployments.

Customers often ask where they should install their MySQL, MariaDB, or Percona MySQL database proxies for high availability clusters, and how many. What is optimal for you may not be the right configuration for everyone. However there are some best practices we’ll discuss in this basic blog about deploying MySQL database proxies.

The new role of recovery (RPO and RTO) in a continuous, highly available MySQL environment?

For the sixth in the Competitor Comparison series in which we look at the main solutions for MySQL high availability, disaster recovery and geographic distribution, I got a chance to interview Matt Lang, Customer Success Director, Americas at Continuent. We focused on highly available, geo-scale, multi-region MySQL for mission-critical sites and apps with Do-it-Yourself (DIY) solutions as compared to MySQL clustering with Continuent Tungsten, the only complete, fully-integrated clustering solution for MySQL - on-premises, in the cloud, hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud.

Amazon Redshift has been providing scalable, quick-to-access analytics platforms for many years, but the question remains: how do you get the data from your existing datastore into Redshift for processing? This blog looks at that question by providing some background information on Redshift replication as well as details on how to easily replicate from MySQL to Redshift.

It’s Hadoop’s 15th birthday and we’re looking at how to easily replicate from MySQL to Hadoop and why in this blog on real-time big data analytics.

Read about MySQL to MongoDB / MongoDB Atlas replication: what it’s all about, why it’s needed and how it works.

Read this blog to get a more in-depth understanding of what the Tungsten Cluster AMI is, how it works and how to use it in order to easily deploy MySQL database clusters and more.

In this blog post, we explore how the two new Tungsten Replicator roles allow for THL transfer when not actively extracting or applying events. This new behavior provides for better control and performance under a variety of conditions.

Read this blog to learn about replication between MySQL and Apache Kafka: what it’s all about, how it works, and the tools to use to make it work smoothly.