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Re: Semisync plugin incompatibility

 

On 2013-11-15 07:32, Pavel Ivanov wrote:
Semi-sync replication for us is a DBA tool that helps to achieve
durability of transactions in the world where MySQL doesn't do any
flushes to disk. As you may guess by removing disk flushes we can
achieve a very high transaction throughput. Plus if we accept the
reality that disks can fail and repairing information from it is
time-consuming and expensive (if at all possible), with such reality
you can realize that flush or no flush there's no durability if disk
fails, and thus disk flushes don't make much sense. So to get
durability we use semi-sync. And definition of "durability" in this
case is "if client gets ok on the transaction he will find this data
after that". And that should stand in case of any master failures and
failovers.

Hi Pavel,

Please pardon this arrogant interruption of your discussion and shameless self-promotion, but I just could not help noticing that Galera replication was designed specifically with these goals in mind. And it does seem to achieve them better than semi-sync plugin. Have you considered Galera? What makes you prefer semi-sync over Galera, if I may ask?

Kind regards,
Alex

Pavel

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