Percona XtraDB Cluster
Percona XtraDB Cluster is an active/active high availability and high scalability open source solution for MySQL ® clustering. It integrates Percona Server – an enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL – and Percona XtraBackup with the Codership Galera library of MySQL high availability solutions in a single package that enables you to create a cost-effective MySQL high availability cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster has been downloaded over 1,100,000+ times since its launch in April 2012.
“Percona is well known in the industry and offers trusted software, including MySQL clustering software so it just made sense to move to it instead of MySQL Community Edition.”
Percona XtraDB Cluster provides the following MySQL cluster advantages:
- Cost-effective HA and scalability for MySQL 5.7
- Higher availability, with less downtime and more revenue-generating uptime
- Improved security, with XtraDB Cluster strict-mode and data at rest encryption
- Greater ease of use with built-in load balancing and traffic management and simplified packaging
Percona XtraDB Cluster is an open source, cost-effective, robust MySQL clustering solution for businesses. It enables applications requiring synchronous replication of data to have fault-tolerant failover and quick, easy scalability across commodity and off-the-shelf hardware. Organizations use Percona XtraDB Cluster to power highly available applications in the most demanding public, private and hybrid cloud environments. It is an excellent solution for your MySQL cluster and database needs.
Percona XtraDB Cluster MySQL features include:
- ProxySQL load balancer
- Multi-master replication
- Synchronous replication
- Data at rest encryption
- Improved SST Security through simplified configuration
- Easy to setup encrypted between-node communication
- Increased read/write scalability
- Zero Data Loss
- ProxySQL-assisted Percona XtraDB Cluster maintenance mode
- Automatic node provisioning
- Percona XtraDB Cluster "strict-mode"
- Percona Monitoring and Management compatibility
Additional Percona XtraDB Cluster Help
Percona provides expert consulting, technical and cluster support and managed service offerings for the development, deployment, administration and maintenance of Percona XtraDB Cluster.
Community-based help is available for Percona XtraDB Cluster in the Percona Community Forums
How Percona Can Help
Percona Consulting can help you determine if Percona XtraDB Cluster is the right solution for your company and if it is, help with your deployment, while ensuring optimal performance for your database and cluster nodes. Percona Support can ensure your deployment runs as expected and help you in a crisis. If you lack the resources to manage your Percona XtraDB Cluster deployment, our Managed Services team can take over the full operation of your servers. To discuss how Percona can help you make your Percona XtraDB Cluster deployment a success, please call us at +1-888-316-9775 (USA), +44 203 608 6727 (Europe), or have us contact you.


