The Galera Crossroads: Why PXC is the Lifeline for MariaDB Community Users

Or: Surviving the Codership Acquisition Without Losing Your Cluster Why this long post? Recently, the database landscape shifted significantly when MariaDB plc absorbed Codership. If you aren't familiar, Codership is the c ompany that introduced the Galera library and the WSREP API to MySQL, creating the first virtually synchronous replication solution for the MySQL ecosystem. For years, they…