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Set up optional database replication

Setting up database replication provides the following benefits:

  • Provides data backup
  • Enables data analysis without affecting the master database
  • Scalability

MySQL databases replicate asynchronously, which means slaves do not need to be connected permanently to receive updates from the master.

Configure database replication

An in-depth discussion of database replication is beyond the scope of this guide. To set it up, you can consult a resource like:

Magento provides sample MySQL configurations for your slave databases. A simple configuration is provided with the ResourceConnections class README.md.

The following is more advanced and is provided for your information only:

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   return array (
      //...
      'db' =>
         array (
            'connection' =>
               array (
                  'indexer' =>
                     array (
                        'host' => 'default-master-host',
                        'dbname' => 'magento',
                        'username' => 'magento',
                        'password' => 'magento',
                        'active' => '1',
                        'persistent' => NULL,
                     ),
                  'default' =>
                     array (
                        'host' => 'default-master-host',
                        'dbname' => 'magento',
                        'username' => 'magento',
                        'password' => 'magento',
                        'active' => '1',
                     ),
                  'checkout' =>
                     array (
                        'host' => 'checkout-master-host',
                        'dbname' => 'checkout',
                        'username' => 'magento',
                        'password' => 'magento',
                        'model' => 'mysql4',
                        'engine' => 'innodb',
                        'initStatements' => 'SET NAMES utf8;',
                        'active' => '1',
                     ),
                  'sales' =>
                     array (
                        'host' => 'sales-master-host',
                        'dbname' => 'sales',
                        'username' => 'magento',
                        'password' => 'magento',
                        'model' => 'mysql4',
                        'engine' => 'innodb',
                        'initStatements' => 'SET NAMES utf8;',
                        'active' => '1',
                     ),
               ),
            'slave_connection' =>
               array (
                  'default' =>
                     array (
                        'host' => 'default-slave-host',
                        'dbname' => 'magento',
                        'username' => 'read_only',
                        'password' => 'password',
                        'active' => '1',
                     ),
                  'checkout' =>
                     array (
                        'host' => 'checkout-slave-host',
                        'dbname' => 'checkout',
                        'username' => 'read_only',
                        'password' => 'password',
                        'model' => 'mysql4',
                        'engine' => 'innodb',
                        'initStatements' => 'SET NAMES utf8;',
                        'active' => '1',
                     ),
                  'sales' =>
                     array (
                        'host' => 'sales-slave-host',
                        'dbname' => 'sales',
                        'username' => 'read_only',
                        'password' => 'password',
                        'model' => 'mysql4',
                        'engine' => 'innodb',
                        'initStatements' => 'SET NAMES utf8;',
                        'active' => '1',
                     ),
                  ),
               'table_prefix' => '',
   ),
   //.......

Performance improvement

To improve the performance of master-slave replication, you can filter some tables on slave instances. We recommend filtering all temporary tables with name pattern search\_tmp\_% that are used for catalog search.

To do this, add the following line to your my.cnf file on your slave instances:

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   replicate-wild-ignore-table=%.search\_tmp\_%

For more information about this setting, see MySQL documentation.