KiKxxl Chooses Galera Cluster
for Highly Available Communication Services
KiKxxl is a German communications company with overone-‐‑thousand service center workstations for out-‐‑boundand in-‐‑bound calling, and back office services. A failure oftheir IT infrastructure can cost them about € 20,000 perhour, plus it can have negative affect on their reputation.
Challenges
KiKxxl had been using MySQL with the InnoDB storageengine for their databases, with a master / slaveconfiguration. Delays in the asynchronous master / slavereplication, hardware failures that had to be serviced, aswell as the switch from the master to a slave provedproblematic and could prevent safe operations.Consequently, they sought to implement a highly availableand scalable database configuration. Through the use ofload balancers, the load was to be distributed evenly to allservers.
Solution
KiKxxl evaluated Galera Cluster since itallows for continued use of InnoDB tables andoffers a master / master cluster in which all
participating servers are equal and active. In case of ahardware failure or some other problem, the load isautomatically redistributed among the remaining servers.
Galera Cluster for MySQL provides high failure protection,availability of more than 99.99% for excellent scalabilitysupported by multiple computers. Itʼ’s the best utilization ofserver resources. Additionally, itʼ’s available under theopen-‐‑source GPL license v2. So itʼ’s free. Codership partnerFromDual provided the relevant professional services andhelped with the implementation of a highly availableapplication.
Compared to other, similar solutions, the implementation ofGalera Cluster proved to be simple and easy. The first testswere carried out in a virtual environment with Virtual Box.After a successful setup and testing period, the newenvironment could simply be deployed on the physicalhardware.
Although the KiKxxl staff has plenty of MySQL databaseexpertise, they still looked for professional guidance fromMySQL Galera specialists. They decided to hire FromDualGmbH, a Codership -‐‑ Galera Cluster partner, to assist themin their migration to MySQL Galera Cluster.
FromDualʼ’s staff has outstanding knowledge of the MySQL
Quick Facts
Over 1,000Workstations forOutbound Calls
About 2 million SalesCalls per Month
180,000 ServiceCalls per Month
228,000 WrittenCommunicationsper Month
Related Sites
KiKxxlFromDualCodership
About KiKxxl
KiKxxl is a German communicationscompany located in Osnabrück,Bremen and Dortmund with over 1,000state of the art service centerworkstations for outbound calling,inbound calling and back officeservices.
About Codership
database and Galera Cluster. They have assited over one-‐‑hundred companies in Central Europe with similar needs.FromDual provides customers with a service contract thatguarantees support should any problems arise. In addition,the support for Galera Cluster is backed by a contractualguarantee provided by Codership.
Results
The advantages of Galera Cluster to KiKxxlare clear and best described by Mr. AlexanderRempening, the database administrator for
the project at KiKxxl: “We are very pleased with thedeployment and the functionality. The entire cluster isabsolutely stable. This is a significant advantage for ourcustomers, because we can now provide our services tothem without any interruption.”
Codership Oy provides highavailability, no-‐‑data-‐‑loss and scalabledata replication and clusteringsolutions for open source databases.Codership's flagship product is GaleraCluster™ for MySQL, a TrueMultimaster Cluster based onsynchronous replication. GaleraCluster is an easy-‐‑to-‐‑use, high-‐‑availability solution which provideshigh system uptime, no data loss andscalability for future growth. For moreinformation about Galera Cluster,please contact [email protected]
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