We are on our way to delivery a production ready release of Percona XtraDB Cluster by the end March-2012.
We will do couple events to cover features and architecture of XtraDB Cluster.
- I will give a talk on San Francisco MySQL Meetup, on March-21: Percona’s new HA solution for MySQL with XtraDB Cluster. If you are in the area, I hope to see you there. I will give away some good stuff, including free copies of our new book: High Performance MySQL, 3rd edition
- Webinar on April-4 A New High Availability Solution for MySQL
- Tutorial on PL MySQL Conference Galera Synchronous Multi-Master Replication for MySQL. As I expect, the whole Codership Oy team will be on the conference – this is a good chance to meet with developers of Galera.
- My talk on PL MySQL Conference Percona XtraDB Cluster: New HA solution.
- Out book «High Performance MySQL, 3rd edition» has couple pages dedicated to Percona XtraDB Cluster
. If you are not in San Francisco and can’t not make to MySQL Conference, you may attend webinar.
So if you interested to hear or read more on this topic, there is good deal: Register for conference before 1-Mar-2012 with code PL-Book, and you will receive our book for free (in the additional to ridiculously low early-bird prices).
About the Author
Vadim TkachenkoVadim Tkachenko co-founded Percona in 2006 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Vadim leads Percona Labs, which focuses on technology research and performance evaluations of Percona’s and third-party products. Vadim’s expertise in LAMP performance and multi-threaded programming help optimize MySQL and InnoDB internals to take full advantage of modern hardware. He also co-authored the book High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication 3rd Edition.
Is it similar to MySQL cluster NDB engine or is this a totally new concept? Where is the documentation page?
Documentation is there
https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtradb-cluster/index.html
Discussion vs NDB engine you can see there in comments
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2012/01/09/announcement-of-percona-xtradb-cluster-alpha-release/
since there is no management node, so is there a way to find out if/when the connection b/w nodes has issues and how far each node is before querying it? If its 100% synchronous like DRBD then it will have the same write performance issues I guess as we normally see with DRBD.
I am pretty sure there are some real life problems that this type of cluster solution can solve. I hope it works as is explained in the documentation.
arun,
The synchronous commit is described there
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2012/01/19/percona-xtradb-cluster-feature-2-multi-master-replication/
This page describes how you can monitor the sate of the node:
http://www.codership.com/wiki/doku.php?id=galera_status_0.8
I tried to install XtraDB-Cluster-server, it depended on xtrabackup and xtrabackup depended on mysql. So I installed MySQL-server-community rpm and xtrabackup, but when I installed XtraDB-Cluster-server, I said it’s conflict with MySQL-server-community. What should I do?
Thanks
Eagle
Please try to install xtrabackup 1.9.1 RPM manually
from there
https://www.percona.com/downloads/XtraBackup/BETA/1.9.1/