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Discovering the Flexibility of MariaDB Galera Cluster

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Just yesterday I finished setting up a MariaDB Galera Cluster, and now I cannot imagine how I ever lived with plain master-slave replication. Multi-master really does give you much more flexibility.

Of course, during the setup I ran into the issue that a quorum will not form with only two nodes, and that you need at least three nodes for stable operation.

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