MySQL open source software is provided under the GPL License.
OEMs, ISVs and VARs can purchase commercial licenses.
MySQL Fabric provides a framework
for managing farms of MySQL servers. MySQL Fabric provides two services which can be used individually
or in combination:
High Availability - Building on top of MySQL Replication to provide automated failure detection and failover.
Sharding - Scaling out of both reads and writes by partitioning rows from selected tables into a number of shards.
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