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]]>Most of our customers are 24*7 internet properties and their applications ( i.e. entire business operations) rely heavily on availability of respective database systems nodes, These systems going unavailable cause serious impact on reputation, customer experience and revenue. To ensure business continuity under foreseeable and unforeseeable man-made or natural disasters, the database system has to be designed and built with fault tolerance and disaster recovery capabilities, in other words the component can be removed and the system should continue to operate as expected. High availability refers to the characteristics of a system that allow the system to sustain continuous operation in the event of hardware and software failures due to natural or man made causes (Webb, 2008).
Where A is system availability, MTBF is the mean time between failures, and MTTR is the mean time to recover the system. From the formula for system availability, it can be derived that when MTTR approaches zero (i.e., system down time is substantially short), availability (A) increases toward 100 percent. On the other hand, when MTBF gets larger (i.e., system down time occurs very rarely), MTTR has less impact on A. Therefore, the goal of system high availability is to make MTTR as small as possible and MTBF as large as possible.
STOP GROUP_REPLICATION; SET GLOBAL group_replication_compression_threshold= 5242880; START GROUP_REPLICATION;
In the above script, We have set the compression threshold to 5MB. Now if a transaction generates a replication message more than 5MB, i.e., the binary log transaction entry is larger than 5MB, then it is compressed.
Note: You can disable the compression by setting threshold to “0“
Note: In order for a replication group to use fragmentation, all group members must be at MySQL 8.0.16 or above
Group Replication definitely is an off-the-shelf solution for building highly available, fault tolerant and self-healing MySQL infrastructure operations. Even if some of the servers subsequently fail, as long it is not all or a majority, the system is still available. Depending on the number of servers which fail the group might have degraded performance or scalability, but it is still available. To conclude, MySQL Group Replication guarantees that the database service is continuously available. But, When you are using such compelling solution for MySQL Reliability, It’s alway better to also discount limitations and tunable parameter for better performance. Thanks for taking time in reading this blog and we welcome your comments.
References
https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/08/01/group-replication-sweet-sour/
https://mysqlhighavailability.com/mysql-group-replication-a-quick-start-guide/
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/group-replication-limitations.html
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]]>MySQL Group Replication can operate in both single-primary mode with automatic primary election, where only one server accepts updates at a time and multi-primary mode, where all servers can accept updates, even if they are issued concurrently. The built-in group membership service retains view of the group consistent and available for all servers at any given point in time, Servers can leave and join the group and the view is updated accordingly. If servers leave the group unexpectedly, the failure detection mechanism detects this and notifies the group that the view has changed, All this happens automatically !
For any transaction to commit, the majority of group members have to agree on the order of a given transaction in the global sequence of transactions. Decision to commit or abort a transaction is taken by respective servers, but all servers make same decision. In the case of systems built on network partition, When the members of the group are unable to reach agreement on a transaction, the system halt till the issue is resolved, This guarantees split-brain protection mechanism.
All these fault tolerance mechanisms are powered by Group Communication System (GCS) protocols, a group membership service, and completely safe ordered message delivery system. Group Replication is powered by Paxos algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)), which acts as the group communication engine.
Till now, we have just posted about the capabilities of Group Replication, Now we have mentioned below (in bullets) about all the limitations of Group Replication:
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