In order to get the benefits of Tungsten Cluster your application must use the Tungsten Connector. The connector is compatible with MySQL drivers and applications. Use the tpm connector --samples command to see examples of how you can invoke a connection on your own. You may need to adapt these examples to your application and configuration method but the connection details should be the same.

shell > tpm connector --samples
Bash                          mysql -hconnector1 -P3306 -uappuser -ppassword
Perl::dbi
                              $dbh=DBI->connecti('DBI:mysql:host=connector1;port=3306',
                              'appuser', 'password')
PHP::mysqli
                              $dbh = new mysqli('connector1',
                              'appuser', 'password', 'schema', '3306');
PHP::pdo
                              $dbh = new
                              PDO('mysql:host=connector1;port=3306',
                              'appuser', 'password');
Python::mysql.connector
                              dbh = mysql.connector.connect(user='appuser',
                              password='password',
                              host='connector1', port=3306,
                              database='schema')
Java::DriverManager
                              dbh=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://connector1:3306/schema",
                              "appuser", "password")

After installation the connector will only work with the --application-user and --application-password options that were provided during installation. See Section 7.6, “User Authentication” if you need more information on adding users to user.map.

By default the connection will always be sent to the current Primary. This behavior can be modified by implementing one of the routing methods to send some traffic to Replica datasources.