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Beyond uptime lies the calm harbor of long-term administration for your MySQL high-availability solution. But navigating upgrade waves and vendor lock-in can be tricky. Let's chart a smooth course through these challenges and ensure your data sails serenely.

Explore the benefits of migrating from Galera Cluster to Tungsten Cluster for MySQL database infrastructure. Learn how Tungsten leverages asynchronous replication for robust performance, overcoming challenges faced by synchronous replication. Discover the ideal architecture for Geo-Scale MySQL clustering and how Tungsten Cluster simplifies deployment with CLI and GUI management tools. Gain insights into achieving high availability, Active/Passive, or Active/Active clusters.

Discover the enhancements in Tungsten Clustering and Tungsten Replicator versions 6.1.24 and 7.1.1, addressing bug fixes, behavior changes, and introducing new features for high-performance and scalable database environments.

Explore the benefits of moving from Galera Cluster to Tungsten Cluster in our blog series. Learn how Tungsten's asynchronous replication enhances application performance compared to Galera's synchronous replication. Discover the advantages of network tolerance, performance optimization, and scalability. Follow our series for insights into deploying database clusters at geo-scale with Tungsten Cluster.

This article will explain how to use rsync to quickly provision a database.

In this post, we will do a deep dive into how the Tungsten Replicator Parallel Applier works, and introduce a NEW filter for Parallel Apply called ShardByRulesFilter.

In this blog, we cover Continuents plans on the support model for the new MySQL “Innovation” releases.

If you are upgrading from MySQL 5.x to MySQL 8, using Tungsten Clustering or Tungsten Replicator, then you may need to prepare yourself for a little gotcha.

Discover the future of database management with Tungsten Clustering & Tungsten Replicator v7.1.0. Explore Distributed Datasource Groups, the innovative tpm cert tool, S3 Applier, enhanced connector management, and more. Upgrade today for a seamless, secure, and efficient database experience.

In this post we will explore new features in both tpm report and tpm ask in v7.1.0. Both commands will continue to evolve and grow over time. In this release we have added new information to the `tpm report` output when requested and new actions, arguments and keys for `tpm ask`.

Customers often use AWS to deploy MySQL or MariaDB Tungsten Clusters. This blog is about changing an AWS instance type from t2.large to t3.large specifically on Amazon Linux 1. It contains the steps to follow when changing AWS instance families to use enhanced networking.

One nice thing about Tungsten Clustering is that you need just a single command to move the primary role to another host in your cluster.