An enterprise guide to database high availability strategies for mission-critical applications

How much downtime can your business afford? Downtime costs anywhere from $300,000 to more than $1 million an hour.* With that much riding on the line, every company needs a solid high availability strategy.

This in-depth guide provides an overview of high availability architectures and how MariaDB enables them via options such as replication with automatic failover and multimaster clustering. In addition, this guide will walk you through detailed steps and configuration options, including:

• Zero-interruption automatic failover, plus connection and session failover
• Delayed retries
• Cooperative monitoring
• Read/write split router
• Database management features such as transparent topology changes, rolling upgrades, replica build/rebuild, GUI monitoring, REST API and built-in query caching
• MariaDB disaster recovery recommendations

*Source: ITIC. Security, Data Breaches Top Cause of Downtime in 2022.