https://www.fromdual.com/tags/sharding/Recent content in Sharding on FromDual GmbHHugoen-GBoli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser)oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser)© FromDual GmbHMon, 14 Oct 2024 10:37:44 +0000https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:02:58 +0000oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser)https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/<h2 id="table-of-contents">Table of contents</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#overview">Overview</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#preparation">Preparation of the shards (MariaDB database instances)</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#creating-test-data">Create test data</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#creating-roles-and-users">Creating roles and users</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#maxscale-monitor-user">MaxScale Monitor User</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#mascale-admin-user">MaxScale Admin User</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#create-application-role-and-accounts">Create application role and accounts</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#proxy-protocol">Proxy protocol</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#maxscale-schema-router-configuration">MaxScale SchemaRouter configuration</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#starting-and-stopping-maxscale">Starting and stopping the MaxScale Load Balancer</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#application-tests">Application tests</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#simple-applicationt-test">Simple application tests</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#new-command-show-shards">New command show shards</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#general-tests">More general test</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#less-simple-tests">Less simple tests</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#more-complex-application-tests">More complex application tests</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#cross-shard-tests">Cross-shard tests</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#operation-of-a-sharding-system">Operation of a MaxScale sharding system</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#do-on-all-shards">Do-on-all-shards</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#invalidate-database-map-cache">Invalidating the database map cache</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#changing-schema-router-variables-dynamically">How to change SchemaRouter variables dynamically?</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#adding-and-removing-a-tenant">Adding and removing a tenant</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#moving-a-tenant">Moving a tenant</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#adding-or-removing-a-shard">Adding or removing a shard</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#adapting-configuration-files">Customising the configuration files</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#maintenance-work-on-a-shard">Maintenance work on the shard</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#observation-of-a-sharding-system">Observation / monitoring of a MariaDB MaxScale sharding system</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-with-mariadb-maxscale/#literature">Literature / Sources</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="overview">Overview</h2> <p>This feature should more or less work with MariaDB MaxScale 6.x.y, 22.08.x, 23.02.x, 23.08.x and 24.02.x. We have tested it with the latest MaxScale version 23.08.05, as we encountered problems with an older version (<a href="https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-5026" target="_blank">MXS-5026</a>).</p>https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-do-it-yourself/Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:18:26 +0000oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser)https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-do-it-yourself/<p>As already mentioned earlier, we roughly have a hand full of customers which are playing with the though of sharding solutions. They typically have many different customers (clients, tenants) and the number of customers becomes so huge (thousands to millions) that one machine cannot cope with the load any more.</p>https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-solutions/Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:38:51 +0000oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser)https://www.fromdual.com/blog/sharding-solutions/<p>Once in a year or so we get a request of a customer about MariaDB/MySQL sharding solutions. So here we have a list of sharding solutions we are currently aware of:</p>