Introducing InnoDB Cluster: Learning the MySQL High Availability Stack

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Charles BellIntroducing InnoDB Clusterhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3885-1_3

3. MySQL Group Replication

Charles Bell¹ 

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Warsaw, Virginia, USA

 

The very core of InnoDB Cluster is Group Replication. As you learned in the preceding chapter, Group Replication is the latest evolution of MySQL Replication, designed to make data replication more robust and reliable. Together with the modifications to the InnoDB storage engine (all under the hood and hidden away), Group Replication enables high-availability capabilities that, in the past, required specialized and sometimes customized products, middleware, and bespoken applications to achieve.

In this chapter, you will explore Group Replication from setup to an active group. This ...