Re: slave to master

I also like the MariaDB Max scale that Reindl Harald Sent -Thanks- However
I don't know if it is possible to use 2 servers of the max scale with a
load balancer in front of them or not.
I always try to avoid the Single Point of Failure.

"https://mariadb.com/products/mariadb-maxscale/how-maxscale-works"

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On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Mahmoud Alshinhab <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I quote this from the page[1]:
> Load balancing implementation Random picking
>
> When initializing a connection or after a failed connection, the connector
> will attempt to connect to a host with a certain role (slave/master). The
> connection is selected randomly among the valid hosts. Thereafter, all
> statements will run on that database server until the connection will be
> closed (or fails).
>
> The load-balancing will includes a pooling mechanism. Example: when
> creating a pool of 60 connections, each one will use a random host. With 3
> master hosts, the pool will have about 20 connections to each host.
> Master/slave distributed load
>
> For a cluster composed of masters and slaves on connection initialization,
> there will be 2 underlying connections: one with a master host, another
> with a slave host. Only one connection is used at a time.
> For a cluster composed of master hosts only, each connection has only one
> underlying connection.
> The load will be distributed due to the random distribution of
> connections..
> Master/slave connection selection It’s the application that has to decide
> to use master or slave connection (the master connection is set by default).
> Switching the type of connection is done by using JDBC connection.setReadOnly(boolean
> readOnly)
> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/sql/Connection.html#setReadOnly%28boolean%29>
> method. Setting read-only to true will use the slave connection, false, the
> master connection.
>
> [1]
> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/failover-and-high-availability-with-mariadb-connector-j/
>
> So I think it is not implemented yet. as "the application has to decide to
> use master or slave connection (the master connection is set by default)."
>
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> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Mahmoud Alshinhab <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It was actually built for Amazon's Aurora, but it should work with any
>> mysql-compatible protoco.
>>
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>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Reindl Harald <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Am 29.04.2016 um 15:07 schrieb Johan De Meersman:
>>>
>>>> From: "Mahmoud Alshinhab" <[email protected]>
>>>>> Subject: Re: slave to master
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think you should have a look at MariaDB Connector[1].
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It provides Load balancing and failover as Failover occurs when a
>>>>> connection to
>>>>> a primary database server fails and the connector will open up a
>>>>> connection to
>>>>> another database server.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, I didn't know that they built that into it, interesting. Does it
>>>> require server features, or would it work with any mysql-compatible
>>>> protocol ?
>>>>
>>>> Load balancing allows load (read and write) to be distributed over
>>>>> multiple
>>>>> servers.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is read-write splitting also built-in, then?
>>>>
>>>
>>> here you go: https://mariadb.com/de/products/mariadb-maxscale and
>>> forget about "MariaDB Connector" whatever that is
>>>
>>>
>>
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