Tungsten Replicator Build 1.0.1 Available

A new build of the Tungsten Replicator is now available. As you probably know from reading this blog Tungsten Replicator provides advanced open source replication for MySQL. There is also a commercial extension to support Oracle. Tungsten Replicator 1.0.1 includes a number of important improvements.

• Much better performance -- Current benchmark results show throughput of up to 650 inserts per second using a single slave apply thread. We are well on the way to our goal of 1000 inserts per second.
  
• Simplified management -- Replicator administration has been largely reduced to two commands: online and offline. There is an option to go online automatically at startup, which further simplifies operation and makes it easy for the replicator to operate as a service.
  
• Easy-to-use consistency checks. You just type trepctl check database.tablename.
• Lots of bug fixes and small improvements. Check the release notes in file README.UPGRADE.
  

We also have some great features on tap for the next couple of releases. An integrated flush operation to simplify failover, built-in backup/restore, and parallel replication are just a few. I'm particularly excited about parallel replication, as it has the potential to boost throughput into the 1000s of updates per second and to support sharding as well. You can track development progress on the Tungsten Replicator JIRA list.

For more information check out the Tungsten Replicator community pages. You can grab binary downloads or look at source code on the Tungsten project on SourceForge.net. The 1.0.1 build is a considerable improvement over the previous beta releases and I hope you will try it out. We look forward to your feedback.