Interesting!

> If you have an existing MySQL or MariaDB server, you can configure Dolt as a read-replica. As the Dolt read-replica consumes data changes from the primary server, it creates Dolt commits, giving you a read-replica with a versioned history of your data changes.

This is really cool.

Thanks!

Let us know if you try it out, we're always interested in feedback.

https://discord.com/invite/RFwfYpu

Coming soon we'll have the ability to replicate a branch HEAD to MySQL as well.

Have you benchmarked the replication? Or do you know of anyone who's running it against a primary with a couple 10s of thousands of writes per second?

That's a lot. With Percona clusters I started having issues requiring fine-tuning around a third of that at quite short peak loads, maybe ten minutes sustained high load topping out at 6-10k writes/s. Something like 24 cores, 192 GB RAM on the main node.

Not sure how GC works in Golang but if you see 20k writes/s sustained that's what I'd be nervous about. If every write is 4 kB I think it would be something like a quarter of a TB per hour, probably a full TB at edge due to HTTP overhead, so, yeah, a lot to handle on a single node.

Maybe there are performance tricks I don't know about that makes 20k sustained a breeze, I just know that I had to spend time tuning RAM usage and whatnot for peaks quite a bit earlier and already at that load planned for sharding the traffic.

I don't think we do have any benchmarks of replication from mySQL, but I am positive there's no chance it can handle 10,000 TPS.