Replikasi ngalirake owahan saka sumber (master) menyang siji utawa luwih replica. Sumber ngrèkam saben owahan sing di-commit ing binary log (binlog); thread I/O saben replica nyalin log kasebut lan thread SQL/applier muter manèh, dadi replica konvergen menyang data sing padha.
Alirané
writes
app ---------> --- binlog ---> <-- reads
| <-- reads
+---------- binlog ---> <-- reads
