Chapter 12. MariaDB Galera Cluster

In this chapter, we will discuss MariaDB Galera Cluster. This technology consists of a cluster of MariaDB nodes, which implement a high-performance and high-availability solution for data redundancy. The following topics will be discussed:

  • An overview of MariaDB Galera Cluster
  • Installing nodes
  • Starting nodes and configuring the cluster
  • Dealing with the split brain problem using Galera Arbitrator
  • Diagnosing and solving performance problems
  • Optimally distributing the workload between nodes using Galera Load Balancer

MariaDB Galera Cluster key concepts

Galera Cluster, or simply Galera, is a cluster implementation for MariaDB and MySQL. The project site is http://galeracluster.com/. MariaDB Galera Cluster is an official ...

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