Ring-Replikation

Introduction

Galera is a synchronous Multi-Master Replication for MySQL. It is therefore in competition with several other MySQL architectures:

• Master-Master Replication with MySQL
• MySQL Cluster
• The non-open source product called Schooner

Very often they can be easily replaced by Galera’s synchronous Multi-Master Replication for MySQL.

All those products have some advantages and disadvantages. Very often MySQL Master-Master Replication is used in the field because of its simplicity to set-up. But …