The MySQL Availability Experts

Since 2004, Continuent has been keeping MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona databases running smoothly with Tungsten Cluster—our powerful solution for high availability, disaster recovery, and scaling.

With advanced failover, load balancing, and replication, Tungsten Cluster ensures your databases are always online. Backed by our industry-leading 24/7 support, you can trust Continuent to safeguard your business-critical applications.

Benefits

Automated Database Administration

Automate critical database administration tasks, freeing your team to focus on strategic initiatives. Automation reduces manual effort, minimizes human error, and lowers costs by streamlining database management.

Industry Best Business Critical Support

Our expert MySQL support is available 24/7, with engineers boasting over 25 years of experience worldwide. Urgent requests are on average responded to in under three minutes, backed by a one-hour SLA and guaranteed uptime.

Zero-Downtime Maintenance

Perform routine maintenance, updates, schema changes, and upgrades without impacting your applications. Tungsten Cluster allows you to switch nodes and maintain systems while keeping your data available.

Advanced Load Balancing

Load balancing with Continuent’s Intelligent Proxy distributes database traffic efficiently across multiple nodes, ensuring optimal performance and high availability. This prevents bottlenecks and maximizes application uptime, providing a seamless user experience and protecting against database overload.

Security

Encrypt all data in-flight for HIPAA and PCI Compliance. Tungsten Clusters are built from the ground up to be secure, with all layers of communication with the cluster SSL-encrypted to ensure privacy. This includes cluster-internal command and control traffic, along with client-proxy-database communications. Additionally, custom certificates may be used to further increase security.

Lowest TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)

Reduce costs by managing complex multi-site, multi-database environments with fewer resources. Tungsten Cluster simplifies management, lowering operational overhead and decreasing the need for manual intervention.

Key Features

High Availability (HA)

Achieve virtually zero downtime with automatic failover. Tungsten Cluster continuously monitors your databases and automatically transfers traffic to standby nodes during server failures, ensuring uninterrupted service.

Automated Deployment
Automated MySQL cluster deployment using Tungsten scripts or tools like Ansible.
Automated Failover
Instantly routes traffic to secondary nodes in case of a failure.
Real-time Monitoring
Continuously monitors databases to detect and respond to issues before they impact users.

Disaster Recovery

Tungsten Cluster offers multi-site clustering capabilities to provide comprehensive disaster recovery options.

Multi-Site Deployment
Distribute clusters across regions for added protection against localized outages.
Cross-Site Failover
Re-route traffic to the nearest available data center in case of failure.

Global and Geographically Distributed Clusters

Serve a geographically distributed user base. Deploy global MySQL clusters that are locally and globally-aware right out-of-the-box.

Global Distribution
Deploy clusters in strategic locations worldwide to enhance user experience and performance.
Real-Time Synchronization
Maintain data consistency across geographically distributed clusters, ensuring your data is always up to date and accessible.
Reduced Latency
Minimize response times by serving local traffic from nearby data centers.
No Performance Penalty
Deploy additional sites without impacting performance of existing sites.

Tungsten Kubernetes Operator

Simplify complex database operations and eliminate manual intervention by automating the deployment, management and scaling of Tungsten Cluster in Kubernetes environments.

Simplified Deployment
Deploy and manage your Tungsten Cluster directly from your Kubernetes environment. No more complex manual configurations!
Automated Scaling
Easily scale your cluster resources up or down based on demand, ensuring optimal performance and resource utilization.
Integrated Monitoring
Leverage Kubernetes monitoring tools for comprehensive visibility into your Tungsten Cluster's health and performance.

Multi-Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud MySQL

Avoid vendor lock-in and be infrastructure-agnostic; deploy Multi-Cloud or Hybrid-Cloud MySQL. Gain negotiating power with freedom to switch across cloud and infrastructure providers.

Hybrid Deployment
Combine on-premises infrastructure with cloud resources for a tailored solution that meets your needs.
Cloud-Agnostic
Operate effortlessly across different cloud platforms without being tied down to a single vendor.
Scalable Solutions
Effortlessly scale your database resources across multiple clouds to accommodate fluctuating workloads.

Advanced Data Replication

Real-time, log-based replication ensures data consistency across all nodes. Advanced filtering and transformation features provide customized data replication, maintaining integrity and access to up-to-date information.

Advanced Filtering
Fine-tune your replication process with advanced filtering capabilities. Select and replicate only the specific data you need, optimizing bandwidth usage and reducing replication overhead. This allows for targeted data distribution and improved resource management.
Flexible Configuration
Configure replication settings to precisely match your needs for data consistency, performance, and recovery time objectives (RTO).
Replicate to non-MySQL targets
Replicate data out of a cluster to data warehouse targets.

Competitive Comparison

When it comes to MySQL clustering, Tungsten Cluster delivers what others can’t: fast recovery during failures, seamless database syncing across locations, and the ability to handle complex, multi-site environments with ease.

We rigorously tested popular MySQL clustering solutions to evaluate their performance, scalability, and reliability. Explore how Tungsten Cluster compares to other solutions:

Check out our Comparison Table below to see why Tungsten Cluster is the best choice for your business-critical applications.

Use Cases
High Availability
Disaster Recovery
Zero Downtime Maintenance
Continous Operations
Multi-Primary
Geo-Scale
Active/Active
Active/Passive
Intangibles
MySQL Support
Platform
Product Maturity
TCO

Tungsten Cluster

All MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Servers version
On-premises, VMs, all Cloud environmnets (hybrid- and multi-cloud)
10+ years, proven
Progressively lower for the larger deployments
'MySQL Compatible', 5.6, 5.7, 8.0 (most) features only
AWS only
3 years
Linear pricing, very expensive Enterprise 24/7 support
MySQL Community Edition 5.6, 5.7, 8.0
GCP only
4 years
Linear pricing, very expensive Enterprise 24/7 support
MySQL Community Edition 5.6, 5.7, 8.0 (only 5.7 for flexible server preview)
Azure only
3 years
Linear pricing, very expensive Enterprise 24/7 support
All MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Servers version
Any environment but with complexity of doing it by yourself
Depends on deployment
TCO not predictable, person-hours and/or consulting hours, limited support
InnoDB-engine only, MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server
Any single platform, no hybrid- or multi-cloud
10+ years
TCO not predictable, person-hours and/or consulting hours, limited support
MySQL 5.7+ (but most improvements in MySQL 8.0+), InnoDB engine only
Any single platform
4 years (April 2017 GA)
TCO not predictable, person-hours and/or consulting hours, limited support
'MySQL Compatible', 5.6, 5.7, 8.0 (most) features only
AWS only
3 years
Linear pricing, very expensive Enterprise 24/7 support
MySQL Community Edition 5.6, 5.7, 8.0
GCP only
4 years
Linear pricing, very expensive Enterprise 24/7 support
MySQL Community Edition 5.6, 5.7, 8.0 (only 5.7 for flexible server preview)
Azure only
3 years
Linear pricing, very expensive Enterprise 24/7 support
All MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Servers version
Any environment but with complexity of doing it by yourself
Depends on deployment
TCO not predictable, person-hours and/or consulting hours, limited support
InnoDB-engine only, MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server
Any single platform, no hybrid- or multi-cloud
10+ years
TCO not predictable, person-hours and/or consulting hours, limited support
MySQL 5.7+ (but most improvements in MySQL 8.0+), InnoDB engine only
Any single platform
4 years (April 2017 GA)
TCO not predictable, person-hours and/or consulting hours, limited support