Hi Johan, I wanted to love mysql-proxy for so many years, so I understand you :)
> I have two main questions: > * am I remembering right that MySQL Proxy provides transparent failover ? > You need to use/create a lua failover script, I've never seen or tried one. What kept me from investing too much time and effort on it is that mysql-proxy has been alpha for ages, including not having been really multithreaded. > * Are there other contenders in the same field, or alternate solutions ? > MaxScale looks really promising: https://github.com/skysql/MaxScale I am testing it, it is not yet production ready probably, but it's developing very fast and I like that you can telnet to a debug console and monitor/manage it. Plus you can write your own plugins, I'd definitely have a look at it. 1.0 beta was recently released: http://markriddoch.blogspot.it/2014/07/maxscale-10-beta-highlights.html > > Ideally I'm looking for a hyper-stable tool that can run on it's own VM, > so the application doesn't notice when I switch backends. All the other > applications play nice, in that they simply reconnect and go on with > business, so it doesn't even *have* to take improbably loads. > I think it is a shared mysqlians dream :) Cheers -- Claudio
