Ulf Wendel  (Slides) DIY – A distributed database cluster, or:
MySQL Cluster   Ever wondered how a database cluster ticks?
Here’s how! During my talk at the International PHP Conference
(#ipc13) I tried to build a cluster. I brought a soldering iron,
sold, pink, orange and brown cables with me. Then, I tried to
sold the thick (reliable, high throughput) brown cable at my
company notebook (video coming). Eventually, I failed. Probably,
I lacked the theoretical background?! Luckily, I got very
theoretical slides with me…  View & Download  No marketing fluff
The talk has 0% marketing fluff. 0% marketing fluff leaves
little to say but theory. Thus, the slides explain:    • The
four kinds of database clusters   • Concurrency control: how
conflicts are detected   • Concurrency control: how conflicts
are resolved   • Why atomic broadcast (Virtual Synchrony) is
cool   • How ROWA compares to Quorums   • How to split brains
• Three different architectures for DIY   • How do MySQL
Replication/Cluster solutions differ