Planet MySQL HA Blog

The Planet MySQL HA Blog aggregates content from sources that cover topics related to high availability (HA) for MySQL databases.

MySQL Routing Guidelines: Breaking Down the Mechanics in MySQL Router

In this final part of the series, we dive deeper into how Routing Guidelines work internally, focusing on the custom expression parser and evaluator that enables complex routing rules.

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MySQL AWS keyring component extends functionality of AWS keyring plugin

In this post we discuss AWS Keyring Component. It uses Amazon Web Services Key Management Service (AWS KMS) as a back end for key generation and encryption and utilizes a file as a key storage. Components are more independent and better encapsulated (thus more secure) extensions to MySQL compared to plugins. The component introduces AWS compatible configuration, appropriate to run in an AWS ECS container or an EC2 node.

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HeatWave Point-in-time Recovery of deleted DB systems

Point-in-time Recovery is also available on a Deleted DB system. To benefit from this feature, enable PITR and automatic backup retention before deletion of the DB system.

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Deploying High Availability and Disaster Recovery MySQL on OCI like a devops

In this article we discuss how to deploy High Available and Disaster Recovery Architecture over multiple OCI regions using Terraform and Puppet.

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How do you upgrade MySQL HeatWave when deploying with Terraform?

Upgrading to a newer version of MySQL when deploying MySQL HeatWave on OCI using Terraform can be problematic. Discover how to achieve a save upgrade reading this article.

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HeatWave MySQL: Solving Missing UPDATES for Debezium CDC

This blog article aims to help HeatWave users to integrate seamlessly with Debezium CDC to stream data changes for real-time application

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HeatWave MySQL security series - Customer managed encryption keys

Cloud database security isn’t just a best practice—it's an absolute necessity. With sensitive data flowing into the cloud, protecting your business-critical assets is non-negotiable, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) HeatWave MySQL provides robust features to help. This blog explores customer managed encryption key, the related backup strategies, and the required security policies so you can keep your databases both agile and secure.

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Using In-HeatWave LLMs on OCI Always Free

This post shows you how to use free HeatWave GenAI features, in particular small LLMs that run in an Always Free HeatWave instance, for summarization, translation, chat, RAG, or other GenAI use cases.

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Uplevel the MySQL REST Service

The MySQL REST Service is a next-generation JSON Document Store solution, enabling fast and secure HTTPS access to data stored in MySQL, HeatWave, InnoDB Cluster, InnoDB ClusterSet, and InnoDB ReplicaSet. Try the latest MySQL REST Service lab release!

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Percona pg_tde: A Security Review Reveals Robust Encryption

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At Percona, we are committed to providing robust and secure database solutions. We recently engaged Longterm Security for an in-depth review of our Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) feature for PostgreSQL, known as pg_tde. This comprehensive assessment included a cryptographic design evaluation, an application security review for coding errors, and extensive fuzz testing. We’re excited to share the key takeaways from this engagement, highlighting both pg_tde’s strengths and areas for continued improvement.

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