10 Apr 2025 Galera Cluster vs InnoDB Cluster in MySQL 8.4 – preamble for SHOOTOUT webinar 15th of April MySQL 8.4 has two good options for High Availability clusters: Galera Cluster (and Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC)) plus MySQL InnoDB Cluster. Both solutions are now mature enough, so what is the deciding factor? Workload characteristics, application compatibility (Galera is virtually synchronous; InnoDB Cluster offers 2 modes – single primary mode, which is one instance being […] Read more...
27 Mar 2025 Galera Cluster and Galera Manager on ARM / aarch64 We were recently asked to support Galera Manager on ARM architectures (aarch64), and while we do support Galera Cluster on aarch64 for Galera Cluster Enterprise Edition (EE) in Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.0, we do not make such builds for our community release. This also means that for Galera Manager we are firmly just based […] Read more...
25 Feb 2025 Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.0.41-26.22 and 8.4.4-26.22 released Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.0, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 8.0.41-26.22 (release notes, download), with Galera replication library 4.22 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API version 26. It also includes Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.4, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 8.4.4-26.22 (release notes, download); it […] Read more...
24 Feb 2025 Rancher and Galera Cluster in the partner repository If you’ve ever wanted to deploy Galera Cluster on Rancher by SUSE, you now can since Galera Cluster is a partner chart in their repository. This means Codership’s Galera Cluster is a SUSE Ready Verified partner. A direct link to the HELM charts for MySQL/Galera Cluster is here. What is Rancher? Rancher is a Kubernetes […] Read more...
17 Feb 2025 More MariaDB releases, right before the webinar! So we initially planned to use MariaDB Server 11.7 for the upcoming webinar on 19 February, but we decided that it would be wise to upgrade to 11.8 RC which just became a release candidate. 11.7 is a short term release, and it comes with the all important Vector support, which we are pleased to […] Read more...
31 Jan 2025 Your MySQL & MariaDB Galera Cluster and Galera Manager Best Practice Resources Happy 2025, it is a fresh year, and there have been plenty of resources to help you gain the most out of your Galera Cluster (be it on MySQL or MariaDB Server) and Galera Manager deployments, so here is a quick “best practices” guide. Did you know that in under 15 minutes, you can Deploy […] Read more...
