Slaves are useful for scaling reads.
Master-Master, with one of them writable, is the best config for quickly
failing over if one machine dies.
Any number of Slaves can be hung off them; it is best to split the
slaves evenly.
Master-Relay-Slave -- the middle guy is a "single point of failure",
hence not advisable
Circular Replication (3+ machines replicating in one direction) is not
advised -- if one dies, you have a mess.
Writing to two masters (Dual or Circular) does not give you write
scaling -- all writes have to be performed by all servers. That is, you
cannot scale writes by any Replication configuration.
On 4/5/12 5:15 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Any documentation regarding setting up MySQL Replication. I have been
> referring to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/replication.html and
> also what are the typical scenarios to be setup viz Master Master Slave or
> Master Slave or Master Slave Slave. Help me understand the pros and cons of
> this various combinations.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Kaushal
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