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<chapter id="high-availability">
<title>High Availability and Load Balancing</title>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Master/Slave Replication</term>
+ <term>Master-Slave Replication</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- A master/slave replication setup sends all data modification
+ A master-slave replication setup sends all data modification
queries to the master server. The master server asynchronously
sends data changes to the slave server. The slave can answer
read-only queries while the master server is running. The
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Multi-Master Replication</term>
+ <term>Synchonous Multi-Master Replication</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- In multi-master replication, each server can accept write
- requests, and modified data is transmitted from the original
- server to every other server before each transaction commits.
- Heavy write activity can cause excessive locking, leading to
- poor performance. In fact, write performance is often worse
- than that of a single server. Read requests can be sent to
- any server. Some implementations use cluster-wide shared memory
- or shared disk to reduce the communication overhead. Clustering
- is best for mostly read workloads, though its big advantage is
- that any server can accept write requests — there is no
- need to partition workloads between master and slave servers,
- and because the data changes are sent from one server to another,
- there is no problem with non-deterministic functions like
- <function>random()</>.
+ In synchonous multi-master replication, each server can accept
+ write requests, and modified data is transmitted from the
+ original server to every other server before each transaction
+ commits. Heavy write activity can cause excessive locking,
+ leading to poor performance. In fact, write performance is
+ often worse than that of a single server. Read requests can
+ be sent to any server. Some implementations use cluster-wide
+ shared memory or shared disk to reduce the communication
+ overhead. Clustering is best for mostly read workloads, though
+ its big advantage is that any server can accept write requests
+ — there is no need to partition workloads between master
+ and slave servers, and because the data changes are sent from
+ one server to another, there is no problem with non-deterministic
+ functions like <function>random()</>.
</para>
<para>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Multi-Master With Conflict Resolution</term>
+ <term>Asynchronous Multi-Master Replication</term>
<listitem>
<para>