11 engineers on Hacker News describe using Galera Cluster first-hand: 6 endorse it, 3 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“it won't prevent a single `ALTER TABLE` to lock up the entire cluster”
regret · production · dikei · 2022-01-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We currently use Galera with My/MariaDB/Percona and it's quite handy for HA-ish needs”
endorse · production · throw0101a · 2021-09-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Before we ditched Galera we were never really able to solve a couple classes of deadlocks”
regret · production · clon · 2018-03-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we have way more network partitions than your typical network (this was bad for galera.. :(:()”
regret · production · merb · 2017-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Yes, we moved to galera cluster. Even with its random node shutdowns, from my second-hand impressions it's still better than dealing with the pgpool, slony, et al.”
mixed · production · vruiz · 2015-10-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Galera cluster is an awesome multi-master solution and I've had nothing but excellent experience with it in production environments.”
endorse · production · bryantraywick · 2014-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run about 32 slave threads per node though and it has never been a real problem for us. It WILL be a problem for you though”
mixed · production · druiid · 2013-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have a good long use of it now and pretty much know about most/all of the things to watch out for.”
endorse · production · druiid · 2013-04-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I suggest looking at Galera (we use this for our production MySQL stuff)”
endorse · production · druiid · 2012-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently set up and tried Galera, and everything "just worked".”
endorse · personal · joch · 2012-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's making my planned architecture much simpler to manage than the traditional MySQL or PostgreSQL replication approaches.”
endorse · personal · sciurus · 2012-08-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?