- The document discusses various parallel replication technologies in MySQL/MariaDB including schema-based parallel replication in MySQL 5.6, group commit-based approaches in MariaDB 10.0 and MySQL 5.7, and optimistic parallel replication in MariaDB 10.1.
- It provides an overview of how each approach tags and dispatches transactions to worker threads on slaves and their limitations regarding transaction ordering and gaps.
- Examples from Booking.com show how parallel replication can scale to thousands of servers but also hit issues like long transactions blocking progress.