Alibaba Cloud Developer

Aug 9, 2017 · Databases

How AliSQL X‑Cluster Achieves Strong Consistency and Global Scalability

AliSQL X‑Cluster is Alibaba's MySQL‑compatible distributed database that integrates the X‑Paxos consensus protocol to provide strong consistency, multi‑region deployment, low‑cost replica types, asynchronous transaction commit, hotspot‑update optimizations and superior performance compared with native MySQL and Group Replication, while offering flexible online configuration and robust failover mechanisms.