Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 Documentation¶

Percona XtraDB Cluster is High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users.

Percona XtraDB Cluster provides:

• Synchronous replication. Transaction either committed on all nodes or none.
• Multi-master replication. You can write to any node.
• Parallel applying events on slave. Real “parallel replication”.
• Automatic node provisioning.
• Data consistency. No more unsynchronized slaves.

Percona XtraDB Cluster is fully compatible with MySQL or Percona Server in the following meaning:

• Data compatibility. Percona XtraDB Cluster works with databases created in MySQL / Percona Server.
• Application compatibility. There is no or minimal application changes required to start work with Percona XtraDB Cluster.