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They still disable the query cache, but MySQL's query cache generally isn't considered all that great a thing anyway, so few people care. You're better off making judicious use of Redis or memcached. The biggest win for Galera is high-availability that actually works with minimal effort. (I've never experienced a high-availability solution not based on multi-master/all-nodes-hot principles that didn't cause more prob…
but MySQL's query cache generally isn't considered all that great a thing anyway You've never had to prime a query cache on a MySQL server, have you? :)
Of course not. I use a caching layer with lower overhead that doesn't invalidate the entire cache when a single record changes. The query cache just isn't competitive.