Summary

You may know about the MySQL Cluster, which is a complex architecture to achieve high availability and performance. One of the advantages of MySQL Cluster is that each node is a peer to the others, whereas in a normal replicating system you have a master and many slaves, and applications must be careful to write only to the master. In this article, Giuseppe Maxia, CTO of Stardata IT, provides unique insight into circular replication (multi-master replication) with failover.

This article was written by Giuseppe Maxia and published on April 24, 2006 on MySQL.com. This link has been provided to help you quickly and easily to find the answers to your questions.