What is Galera Cluster?
It’s an easy-to-use, high-availability solution, which provides high system up-time, no data loss and scalability for future growth. You can Keep it up and running 24/7. Putting our expertise to use will help you avoid trial and error.
Galera Cluster is a tool in the Database Tools category of a tech stack.
Galera Cluster is an open source tool with 432 GitHub stars and 175 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Galera Cluster's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Galera Cluster?
Companies
19 companies reportedly use Galera Cluster in their tech stacks, including Evergreenteam stack, Mola TV, and Tucows.
Developers
34 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Galera Cluster.
Galera Cluster Integrations
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, and Oracle are some of the popular tools that integrate with Galera Cluster. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Galera Cluster.
Galera Cluster's Features
- True Multi-master Read and write to any node at any time
- Synchronous Replication No slave lag, no data is lost at node crash
- Tightly Coupled All nodes hold the same state
- Multi-threaded Slave For better performance.
Galera Cluster Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Galera Cluster?
Cassandra
Partitioning means that Cassandra can distribute your data across multiple machines in an application-transparent matter. Cassandra will automatically repartition as machines are added and removed from the cluster. Row store means that like relational databases, Cassandra organizes data by rows and columns. The Cassandra Query Language (CQL) is a close relative of SQL.
Percona
It delivers enterprise-class software, support, consulting and managed services for both MySQL and MongoDB across traditional and cloud-based platforms.
Apache Aurora
Apache Aurora is a service scheduler that runs on top of Mesos, enabling you to run long-running services that take advantage of Mesos' scalability, fault-tolerance, and resource isolation.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
CockroachDB
CockroachDB is distributed SQL database that can be deployed in serverless, dedicated, or on-prem. Elastic scale, multi-active availability for resilience, and low latency performance.
