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MySQL 8.3 Reference Manual  /  Group Replication

Chapter 20 Group Replication

Table of Contents

20.1 Group Replication Background
20.1.1 Replication Technologies
20.1.2 Group Replication Use Cases
20.1.3 Multi-Primary and Single-Primary Modes
20.1.4 Group Replication Services
20.1.5 Group Replication Plugin Architecture
20.2 Getting Started
20.2.1 Deploying Group Replication in Single-Primary Mode
20.2.2 Deploying Group Replication Locally
20.3 Requirements and Limitations
20.3.1 Group Replication Requirements
20.3.2 Group Replication Limitations
20.4 Monitoring Group Replication
20.4.1 GTIDs and Group Replication
20.4.2 Group Replication Server States
20.4.3 The replication_group_members Table
20.4.4 The replication_group_member_stats Table
20.5 Group Replication Operations
20.5.1 Configuring an Online Group
20.5.2 Restarting a Group
20.5.3 Transaction Consistency Guarantees
20.5.4 Distributed Recovery
20.5.5 Support For IPv6 And For Mixed IPv6 And IPv4 Groups
20.5.6 Using MySQL Enterprise Backup with Group Replication
20.6 Group Replication Security
20.6.1 Communication Stack for Connection Security Management
20.6.2 Securing Group Communication Connections with Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
20.6.3 Securing Distributed Recovery Connections
20.6.4 Group Replication IP Address Permissions
20.7 Group Replication Performance and Troubleshooting
20.7.1 Fine Tuning the Group Communication Thread
20.7.2 Flow Control
20.7.3 Single Consensus Leader
20.7.4 Message Compression
20.7.5 Message Fragmentation
20.7.6 XCom Cache Management
20.7.7 Responses to Failure Detection and Network Partitioning
20.7.8 Handling a Network Partition and Loss of Quorum
20.7.9 Monitoring Group Replication Memory Usage with Performance Schema Memory Instrumentation
20.8 Upgrading Group Replication
20.8.1 Combining Different Member Versions in a Group
20.8.2 Group Replication Offline Upgrade
20.8.3 Group Replication Online Upgrade
20.9 Group Replication Variables
20.9.1 Group Replication System Variables
20.9.2 Group Replication Status Variables
20.10 Frequently Asked Questions

This chapter explains Group Replication in MySQL 8.3, and how to install, configure and monitor groups. MySQL Group Replication enables you to create elastic, highly-available, fault-tolerant replication topologies.

Groups can operate in a single-primary mode with automatic primary election, where only one server accepts updates at a time. Alternatively, groups can be deployed in multi-primary mode, where all servers can accept updates, even if they are issued concurrently.

There is a built-in group membership service that keeps the view of the group consistent and available for all servers at any given point in time. Servers can leave and join the group and the view is updated accordingly. Sometimes servers can leave the group unexpectedly, in which case the failure detection mechanism detects this and notifies the group that the view has changed. This is all automatic.

Group Replication guarantees that the database service is continuously available. However, it is important to understand that if one of the group members becomes unavailable, the clients connected to that group member must be redirected, or failed over, to a different server in the group, using a connector, load balancer, router, or some form of middleware. Group Replication does not have an inbuilt method to do this. For example, see MySQL Router 8.2.

Group Replication is provided as a plugin to MySQL Server. You can follow the instructions in this chapter to configure the plugin on each of the server instances that you want in the group, start up the group, and monitor and administer the group. An alternative way to deploy a group of MySQL server instances is by using InnoDB Cluster.

Tip

To deploy multiple instances of MySQL, you can use InnoDB Cluster which enables you to easily administer a group of MySQL server instances in MySQL Shell. InnoDB Cluster wraps MySQL Group Replication in a programmatic environment that enables you easily deploy a cluster of MySQL instances to achieve high availability. In addition, InnoDB Cluster interfaces seamlessly with MySQL Router, which enables your applications to connect to the cluster without writing your own failover process. For similar use cases that do not require high availability, however, you can use InnoDB ReplicaSet. Installation instructions for MySQL Shell can be found here.

The chapter is structured as follows: