MySQL High Availability with a Punch: DRBD 8.3 and DRBD for Dolphin Express

DRBD is an established building block for MySQL high availability database clusters. It has been included in the MySQL Enterprise offering since 2007. DRBD provides transaction-safe, synchronous, shared nothing block-level replication—and as such, has one drawback: it introduces additional write latency. With traditional IP/Ethernet-based replication, in the past this made DRBD a less than optimal choice for database environments with high write loads, or those with requirements for very low write latency.

Recent DRBD versions introduced support for Dolphin Express
interconnects as a replication transport for DRBD. By using low-latency Dolphin Express interconnects, DRBD can now leverage highly efficient Dolphin SuperSockets as its replication transport, dramatically cutting down on write latency.

With DRBD 8.3, MySQL on DRBD now also supports fully transaction-safe,
synchronous storage replication across up to four nodes.

In this session,

• You will learn about the performance improvements for DRBD-based replication that Dolphin Express with SuperSockets delivers compared to traditional Ethernet-based transports.

• You will learn about four-way synchronous replication and other brand new features included in DRBD version 8.3.

• You will learn about end-to-end replication integrity checking, a DRBD feature currently unique among available MySQL replication solutions.

• You will be exposed to the following technologies besides MySQL:

About DRBD: DRBD, the Distributed Replicated Block Device, is an open source shared-nothing storage replication technology integrated with MySQL Enterprise. MySQL customers using DRBD include booking.com, Europe’s largest on-line reservation agency, the New York Times, and MTV Japan.