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What is the difference between MySQL replication and MySQL clustering? While clustering involves a layer of replication, the capabilities, benefits, and reasons for using clustering versus replication are very different. At Continuent, we offer both clustering and replication for your MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona MySQL - in the cloud, on-prem, hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud, with no application changes or downtime necessary.

“We don’t take backups, we use replication instead.” If you happen to agree with this statement, I urge you to continue reading. But even if you think you have a good backup plan, I still urge you to continue reading. Taking backups is usually not one of the most exciting parts of the job, but it might be the part that saves your company from a catastrophe. So, let’s make a plan!

Give the latest Tungsten Replicator (AMI) a test drive with its 14-day free trial on the AWS marketplace!

We’ve just recently brought our Tungsten Cluster (AMI) up to the current release level of our flagship product, Tungsten Cluster, and would like to invite users to give it a test drive!

Disaster Recovery for Continuous MySQL Operations does not have to be hard, but it does have to be WAN: Multi-Site, Hybrid-Cloud, Multi-Cloud. This blog discusses Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, or “DR,” and an overlooked clustering feature that makes continuous database operations easy, affordable, and manageable.

ProductIP has been a Continuent customer since November 2014 and is sharing its Continuent experience here: from initially setting up their infrastructure in Hong Kong to running a geographically distributed MySQL database replication and clustering environment with Continuent Tungsten, read about their journey with us in this guest post.

There are a number of MySQL HA solutions around. But there are surprisingly few MySQL DR solutions. And there is only one solution that Does MySQL DR Right!

There are a number of MySQL HA solutions around. But there really is only one solution that Does MySQL HA Right!

This blog provides a refresher outline of what’s involved in our Tungsten Cluster Competitive Comparison program and Tungsten Cluster highlights as well. Read on and find out why Tungsten Cluster is a better and more cost-effective overall MySQL HA/DR/Geo-Scale solution compared to other options in the market.

We’ve just recently brought our Continuent Tungsten AMIs up to the current release level of our flagship products, Tungsten Cluster and Tungsten Replicator, and would like to invite users to give them a test drive!

Introducing the new Continuent Tungsten Startup Pricing: Give your business the growth infrastructure it deserves with our best-of-breed MySQL HA / DR / Geo-Scale solutions - at Startup Pricing!

This blog provides basic information about business-critical application to database connections; my team focuses on MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona Server for MySQL on Linux/Unix that’s infrastructure-agnostic (on-prem, VM, hybrid-cloud, cloud, multi-cloud, etc.).