Oracle launches MySQL Fabric to simplify MySQL's high availability and scalability

BEIJING, May 28, 2014 – Oracle announces the launch of MySQL Fabric to meet today's demand for web and cloud applications. MySQL fabric is an integrated system that simplifies the management of MySQL database groups. The product provides high availability through fault detection and failover capabilities, while scalability is achieved through automatic data fragmentation capabilities.

To continue to drive MySQL's innovation, Oracle announces the full listing of MySQL fabric. MySQL fabric is an open source framework capable of managing MySQL server farms.

Customers can download this integrated extensible system via http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/fabric/. This system makes it easier to achieve scale-out and usability improvements based on MySQL applications.

For more detailed information, please watch the webcast on June 19, 2014 (Thursday) 9:00 Pacific time.

MySQL Fabric Main Features

When used in conjunction with MySQL replication, MySQL fabric provides automatic fault detection and failover capabilities for high availability. Details include:

Monitor the primary database, and if the server fails, MySQL fabric will select one from the database and upgrade it to the new primary database.

Provides automatic path selection for transaction processing to connect to the current primary database, and to load balance queries from the database. Topology and server state are transparent to the application.

Automated data fragmentation and re-sharding simplifies the process management of development operations teams. This helps users to:

Partitioning the table to achieve horizontal expansion of read and write;

Select which tables are shards and specify the fields for the Sharding key, including whether to use hash-based or interval-based mappings;

Transfer existing pieces of data to a new server, or divide the slices into smaller pieces of data.

Extended Support for PHP, Python, and Java connectors enables transaction processing and queries to be sent directly to the appropriate MySQL server. Because there is no proxy, no additional delay is generated.

Oracle Executive Introduction

Tomas Ulin, vice president of MySQL development at Oracle, said: "Many of the world's largest Web sites and cloud applications use MySQL replication and sharding capabilities to improve high availability and scalability. MySQL fabric enables high availability and automatic data fragmentation with automatic fault detection and failover, and is open to everyone. With MySQL Fabric's integrated open-source framework, Oracle makes it easy and safe to scale out regardless of whether the MySQL application is on-premises or in the cloud. ”

Oracle launches MySQL Fabric to simplify MySQL's high availability and scalability