How can I tell which Tungsten Connector mode I am using: Bridge, Proxy/Direct or Proxy/SmartScale?

Published Date Author: , Posted July 19th, 2019 at 10:37:18am

Overview

The Skinny

Part of the power of Tungsten Clustering for MySQL / MariaDB is its intelligent MySQL Proxy, known as the Tungsten Connector. Tungsten Connector has three main modes, and depending on the type of operations you are performing (such as if you need read-write splitting), we help you choose which mode is best.


The Question

Recently, a customer asked us:

How can I tell which Tungsten Connector mode I am using: Bridge, Proxy/Direct or Proxy/SmartScale?


The Answer

Connect and Observe

You may login through the Connector to tell the difference between Bridge mode and Proxy mode (either Direct or SmartScale):

In Proxy mode, you will see the -tungsten tag appended to the Server version string:

Once logged into the Connector in Proxy mode, you have the full set of interactive tungsten commands available:

For more information about the Connector’s command-line interface, please visit http://docs.continuent.com/tungsten-clustering-6.0/connector-inline.html

For Bridge mode, you will not see that:

In Bridge mode, the tungsten commands do not work:

The Library

Please read the docs!

For more information about the Tungsten Connector:

For more documentation about Tungsten software, please visit https://docs.continuent.com


Summary

The Wrap-Up

In this blog post we discussed how one can tell which Tungsten Connector mode is in use: Bridge, Proxy/Direct or Proxy/SmartScale.

Tungsten Clustering is the most flexible, performant global database layer available today – use it underlying your SaaS offering as a strong base upon which to grow your worldwide business!

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