It sounds like you've been handed a mandate that's difficult to understand, but it could be because I don't understand the context, or you may not understand your manager's real intention. In any case, "everyone is doing clustering" is certainly not accurate. And every "clustering" technology is actually built on some type of replication (this is how data is duplicated into more than one place.)
There are a lot of pitfalls to clustering, the first being that you might not understand exactly what you're asking the list to help you with. Are you talking about changing to MySQL (NDB) Cluster? This is an entirely different set of technologies that takes a lot of expertise and experience to administer, and it is by no means seamless for the application. This is not something to take lightly. You may be interested in a relatively new clustering technology called Galera, however, which is shipped as an integrated package in Percona XtraDB Cluster: http://www.percona.com/software/percona-xtradb-cluster/ The benefit is that it's basically transparent for the application, and it's familiar technology (with some added components) to administer. - Baron On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Brown, Charles <cbr...@bmi.com> wrote: > Anyone out there with experience in Mysql Clustering. My management requests > that i migrate from replication to clustering. Why? Because everyone is doing > clustering and he would like to stay competitive. The question is what are > the pitfalls -- if any? Our replication objective is to address availability. > > Help me -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
