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MySQL Slow Query Log Table: A Practical Guide to Identifying and Fixing Performance Bottlenecks ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

The MySQL slow query log table is one of the most practical tools available to database administrators who need to identify and fix performance bottlenecks—yet it remains widely misunderstood. Every DBA eventually faces the same [...] [...]

Published Sunday, 28. June 2026 08:21 • 8 hours ago

InnoDB Recovery and the Buffer Pool Size Paradox: Why Bigger Isn’t Always Better ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

InnoDB Recovery Buffer Pool sizing is one of the most impactful—yet misunderstood—factors in MySQL performance. Database administrators have long operated under a straightforward assumption: the larger the InnoDB buffer pool, the better the performance. For [...] [...]

Published Saturday, 27. June 2026 19:16 • 21 hours ago

InnoDB Performance Optimization: The Complete Guide to Tuning MySQL for Maximum Throughput ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

InnoDB is the default storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB, and its performance directly determines how well your database-driven applications scale under real-world workloads. Whether you are running a high-traffic e-commerce platform, a SaaS application, [...] [...]

Published Saturday, 27. June 2026 15:33 • a day ago

Preparing Your Analytical Databases for Agents ^{(from Vettabase)}

Agents can query databases: this has always been the dream of many data people! But there is some work to do to make this process reliable, secure, and valuable for your team. [...]

Published Saturday, 27. June 2026 15:15 • a day ago

MariaDB Enterprise Server Q2 2026 Maintenance Releases ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

New maintenance releases for MariaDB Enterprise Server: 11.8.8-5, 11.4.12-9, and 10.6.27-23 are now available. Download Now Notable Release Updates MariaDB […] [...]

Published Friday, 26. June 2026 22:25 • 2 days ago

MySQL's New Governance Model: Two steps forward, one step to the side, and one step backwards ^{(from VillageSQL)}

An analysis of Oracle's new MySQL governance model, weighing the benefits of hyperscaler resources against the lack of true community access. [...]

Published Friday, 26. June 2026 18:45 • 2 days ago

Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees ^{(from The Register)}

Open source advocates remain concerned over lack of binding commitments [...]

Published Friday, 26. June 2026 14:42 • 2 days ago

MariaDB Privacy-First Stack: Nextcloud, Passbolt and MariaDB Server ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pI hear this sentence a lot: “We care about privacy.”br Good.br But then you look a bit closer.br Files are on some cloud platform. Nobody is completely sure which settings were changed two years ago. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Privacy-First Stack: Nextcloud, Passbolt and MariaDB Server\"/p pThe post MariaDB Privacy-First Stack: Nextcloud, Passbolt and MariaDB Server appeare [...]

Published Friday, 26. June 2026 12:37 • 2 days ago

Why PostgreSQL needs an AI usage policy ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

We often hear that open source is about people. [...]

Published Friday, 26. June 2026 10:00 • 2 days ago

Database Backup Strategy: Combining Physical and Logical Methods ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Establish a zero-regret database recovery strategy. Learn how to combine physical and logical backups for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB to meet strict RTO and RPO. [...]

Published Friday, 26. June 2026 09:39 • 2 days ago

Doltgres 1.0 Coming August 6th ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

Doltgres 1.0 is coming August 6th. Here's what we've been working on and what we're focused on to get there. [...]

Published Friday, 26. June 2026 00:00 • 3 days ago

When Amazon Aurora Stops Scaling: The Ceiling You Can’t Buy Your Way Past ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pIf you have ever run Amazon Aurora at scale, you know the moment I mean. Write latency on the primary starts creeping up during peak hours. You bump the writer to the next instance class, and the relief buys you a quarter. You bump it again. Then one day you open the AWS console to […]/p pThe post When Amazon Aurora Stops Scaling: The Ceiling You Can’t Buy Your Way Past appeared first on TiD [...]

Published Thursday, 25. June 2026 20:18 • 3 days ago

From JSON by Hand to a Guided MySQL Enterprise Edition Audit Filter Wizard ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

MySQL Enterprise Edition includes powerful audit filtering capabilities, but writing audit filter JSON by hand can be tedious and error-prone. The JSON model is flexible, which is exactly what makes it useful, but it also means that a small typo, a missing event class, or an incorrectly assigned user can change what does or does […] [...]

Published Thursday, 25. June 2026 19:31 • 3 days ago

Skeema 1.14 released ^{(from Skeema Blog)}

pSkeema v1.14 is now available! This release adds support for the latest MySQL and MariaDB LTS version series, new configuration hooks for obtaining database credentials directly from external scripts, and additional deprecation logging to prep for Skeema v2./p [...]

Published Thursday, 25. June 2026 18:46 • 3 days ago

Open Governance for MySQL: A Step Forward for the Community ^{(from AWS Open Source Blog)}

MySQL — the open source database behind millions of applications worldwide — is opening a new chapter. Today, Oracle announced a community governance model for MySQL that creates pathways for the broader community to participate in the project’s development and direction. This post explains why AWS supports this move and what it means for the […] [...]

Published Thursday, 25. June 2026 17:14 • 3 days ago

The Next Phase of MySQL Community Engagement: Accelerating Participation and Collaboration ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

For over 30 years, MySQL has grown through the contributions, feedback, and collaboration of a global community of developers, database administrators, customers, partners, educators, and open source advocates. That community has helped make MySQL one of the world’s most widely used open source databases. As the ecosystem continues to grow and evolve, so [...]

Published Thursday, 25. June 2026 17:00 • 3 days ago

Passbolt renews its support for MariaDB Foundation ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Passbolt has renewed its Silver sponsorship for another year, continuing its long-term support for the MariaDB open-source ecosystem. … /p pContinue reading \"Passbolt renews its support for MariaDB Foundation\"/p pThe post Passbolt renews its support for MariaDB Foundation appeared first on MariaDB.org./p [...]

Published Thursday, 25. June 2026 06:23 • 3 days ago

One Postgres cluster, many apps ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Yo, I heard you liked databases, so we put logical databases in your database cluster so you can database while you database [...]

Published Thursday, 25. June 2026 00:00 • 4 days ago

Microsoft rivals line up to tell UK watchdog where the software behemoth hurt them ^{(from The Register)}

Browsers, cloud challengers, and Killinghall Parish Council all accuse Redmond of locking in customers, hobbling competition [...]

Published Wednesday, 24. June 2026 11:09 • 4 days ago

Aqtra Joins MariaDB Foundation as a Gold Sponsor ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Aqtra Platform as a new Gold Sponsor.br Aqtra is a Development Infrastructure Layer (DIL) platform for building ERP solutions, business applications, internal and external portals, and workflows that connect multiple systems. … /p pContinue reading \"Aqtra Joins MariaDB Foundation as a Gold Sponsor\"/p pThe post Aqtra Joins MariaDB Foundation as a Gol [...]

Published Wednesday, 24. June 2026 08:31 • 4 days ago

Structured Primary Keys ^{(from Modern SQL)}

Structured Primary KeyspSometimes I hit a wall when optimizing a client’s query. Over the years, I realized that most cases fall into two categories: (1) unreasonable expectations based on the cloud bill, not on the infrastructure’s power; (2) the primary key design. This article explains how primary keys can put tables into walled gardens so that the database schema falls apart into disconnected p [...]

Published Wednesday, 24. June 2026 00:00 • 5 days ago

The Fintech AI Platform: Why Agents Need One Database, Not Five ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pA few months ago I watched a fintech engineering team walk me through their AI agent platform. They had a transactional database for balances and ledgers, a separate vector database for semantic retrieval, a cache for session state, a document store for agent memory, and a stream processor stitching it together. Five systems. Each one […]/p pThe post The Fintech AI Platform: Why Agents Need [...]

Published Tuesday, 23. June 2026 18:49 • 5 days ago

Create Replica DB system Made Easy for MySQL HeatWave Service on OCI ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

MySQL HeatWave Service (MHS) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) already provides multiple ways to create a new DB system, such as restoring from a backup, using Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR), or importing data from Object Storage. However, when creating a new DB system from an existing DB system, especially in another region, the process required several sequential […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 23. June 2026 17:37 • 5 days ago

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for MySQL: The Ultimate Guide ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

MySQL TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) is the cornerstone of data-at-rest security for MySQL databases. Data security is a top priority for organizations managing sensitive information in MySQL databases. Whether you are storing financial records, healthcare [...] [...]

Published Tuesday, 23. June 2026 09:07 • 5 days ago

We just announced the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.1 series. ^{(from lefred's blog)}

MariaDB 13.1 is a rolling release preview, and, as usual, this is the right moment to test what is coming, give feedback, and help us polish the next MariaDB Server release. But this time, there is something really interesting. And by “interesting”, I mean: wow! MariaDB 13.1 Preview includes 32 MDEVs with new features and […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 23. June 2026 07:01 • 5 days ago

MariaDB 13.1 Preview: This One Is Full of Community Goodies! ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pWe just announced the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.1 series.br MariaDB 13.1 is a rolling release preview, and, as usual, this is the right moment to test what is coming, give feedback, and help us polish the next MariaDB Server release. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB 13.1 Preview: This One Is Full of Community Goodies!\"/p pThe post MariaDB 13.1 Preview: This One Is Full of [...]

Published Tuesday, 23. June 2026 05:12 • 5 days ago

Producing Alternative Means statistics with SQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

MySQL’s built-in AVG() computes the arithmetic mean — the sum divided by the count. That is the right default for many questions, but it is not always the right measure of central tendency. [...]

Published Tuesday, 23. June 2026 00:00 • 6 days ago

The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators ^{(from The Register)}

From academic toss-aside to cloud substrate [...]

Published Monday, 22. June 2026 17:43 • 6 days ago

Cloud DB Cost Breakdown: MySQL, PostgreSQL & MongoDB Atlas | Mydbops ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Learn where your money goes in MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB Atlas. Understand IOPS, HA multipliers, and data egress to optimize your cloud DB bill. [...]

Published Monday, 22. June 2026 10:32 • 6 days ago

The MariaDB approach vs the DB Trail for MySQL approach: Comparing time-travel ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

pTwo ways to keep database history: inline system versioning, or an external change-data-capture index on a separate machine. This is not a speed contest. It is about what…/p pThe post The MariaDB approach vs the DB Trail for MySQL approach: Comparing time-travel appeared first on dbtrail./p [...]

Published Monday, 22. June 2026 02:56 • 7 days ago

Extending MySQL Capabilities with UDFs, Plugins and Components ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

MySQL offers three different approaches to extending the SQL capabilities with the default product you download and install. These are: User Defined Function (UDF) MySQL Manual MySQL Plugin MySQL Manual MySQL Component MySQL Manual For the purposes of this post I will be using the current LTS version MySQL 8. [...]

Published Monday, 22. June 2026 00:00 • 7 days ago

Do not uselessly grant CREATE and ALTER TABLE ^{(from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)}

This lesson should have been learned with the CREATE TABLE of death, but it is worth a refresh. Do not uselessly grant CREATE and ALTER TABLE The reason I am posting this reminder is that another crashing bug related to DDL came to my attention. This bug is only fixed in a recent version of MySQL (probably not affecting 5.6 and 5.7), so if you are running the latest 8.0 or 8.4, you should [...]

Published Saturday, 20. June 2026 22:52 • 8 days ago

MariaDB 13.1 preview available ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pWe are pleased to announce the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.1 series. MariaDB 13.1 will be a rolling release. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB 13.1 preview available\"/p pThe post MariaDB 13.1 preview available appeared first on MariaDB.org./p [...]

Published Saturday, 20. June 2026 20:24 • 8 days ago

Producing One-Sample Z-Test statistics with SQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

The one-sample Z-test determines whether a sample mean differs significantly from a known population mean when the population standard deviation is also known. It is the appropriate test when the population parameters are established — quality control benchmarks, national averages, long-run process measurements — and you want to evaluate whether a new sample is consistent with them. [...]

Published Saturday, 20. June 2026 00:00 • 9 days ago

Switching to JSON Error Logging in MySQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

You no longer need to manually parse the MySQL Error log via scripting and RegEx pattern matching. Using the component_log_sink_json component you can obtain JSON error logging for easier parsing. [...]

Published Friday, 19. June 2026 00:00 • 10 days ago

Simple tool to build MariaDB commits for performance-change analysis ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pTracking down changes in database performance is one of the hardest parts of engineering, especially when the change is buried somewhere in a long commit history. … /p pContinue reading \"Simple tool to build MariaDB commits for performance-change analysis\"/p pThe post Simple tool to build MariaDB commits for performance-change analysis appeared first on MariaDB.org./p [...]

Published Thursday, 18. June 2026 21:10 • 10 days ago

Scaling Write Throughput in Azure Database for MySQL Using Application-Level Sharding ^{(from Azure for MySQL Blog)}

pThis blog post walks through scaling write throughput in Azure Database for MySQL using application level sharding. It starts with the why behind sharding and then builds a complete C# implementation that spreads writes across three Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Servers./p Why Shard in the First Place? pThis post focuses specifically on scaling write throughput. A well-tuned single primary nod [...]

Published Thursday, 18. June 2026 16:16 • 10 days ago

Future proofing MySQL and MariaDB versioning ^{(from OpenLife.cc)}

Future proofing MySQL and MariaDB versioning hingo Thu, 2026-06-18 08:15 ulliRead more about Future proofing MySQL and MariaDB versioning /liliLog in to post comments/lili1 view/li/ul pOracle MySQL willl move to Ubuntu -style version numbers, with the next version being 26.7./p pAlthough the blog post doesn't go as far as actually mentioning Mariadb, this seems to be a response, [...]

Published Thursday, 18. June 2026 07:15 • 10 days ago

MariaDB Vector in Laravel: insights on choosing an embedding model ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

plaravel-mariadb-vector is an open-source project by Erik Ros, bringing MariaDB’s native vector search to Laravel’s Eloquent ORM. In his guest post, Erik shares how it works, and his insights about picking an embedding model. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Vector in Laravel: insights on choosing an embedding model\"/p pThe post MariaDB Vector in Laravel: insights on choosin [...]

Published Thursday, 18. June 2026 06:18 • 10 days ago

What People Are Saying: LWN Edition ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

More and more people are talking about us. Here's what LWN is saying. [...]

Published Thursday, 18. June 2026 00:00 • 11 days ago

Installing MySQL 9.7 LTS Community Edition on CentOS ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Historically installing MySQL on a RedHat Compatible Linux server was as simple as yum install mysql-server. Today’s MySQL Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Fedora 9.7 instructions are not accurate mixing in 8. [...]

Published Thursday, 18. June 2026 00:00 • 11 days ago

Amazon Aurora and RDS for MySQL expand Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 2029 ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pAmazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL now offer Amazon RDS Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 30, 2029, from the previous end date of February 28, 2027. This applies to Aurora MySQL version 2 (with MySQL 5.7 compatibility) and RDS for MySQL version 5.7, giving customers additional time to plan and complete their upgrades to a support [...]

Published Wednesday, 17. June 2026 15:00 • 11 days ago

Security advisory: CVE-2026-9740 and CVE-2026-11933 in Percona Server for MongoDB ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pTL;DR: This advisory covers the two most important high-severity memory-safety vulnerabilities affecting MongoDB Community and our downstream Percona Server for MongoDB – CVE-2026-11933 and CVE-2026-9740. Both will be addressed in a single coordinated patch release, bundled with other recently revealed lower-scored CVE fixes: CVE-2026-9753, CVE-2026-9752, CVE-2026-9751, CVE-2026-9750, CVE-20 [...]

Published Wednesday, 17. June 2026 14:24 • 11 days ago

Fuzzy String Search for MySQL ^{(from VillageSQL)}

Add fuzzy string matching to MySQL with VillageSQL. Learn to use trigrams for typos, Levenshtein distance for spell correction, and phonetic matching. [...]

Published Wednesday, 17. June 2026 14:00 • 11 days ago

MySQL 9.7 – Thank you for your contributions! ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

On April 21st, 2026, we released MySQL 9.7.0, the latest Long-Term Support release. As always, we are grateful to the MySQL community for helping improve MySQL with bug reports, patches, pull requests, and continued feedback. Community contributions help make MySQL better for everyone, and we are happy to recognize the contributors whose work was included […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 17. June 2026 08:00 • 11 days ago

The insert benchmark on a small server, IO-bound workload : Postgres 19 beta1 ^{(from Small Datum)}

pThis has results for Postgres versions 19 beta1, 18.4 and 17.10 with the Insert Benchmark on a small server using a cached and CPU-bound workload. I also used MySQL 8.4.8 to see where performance was different./pp/ppPostgres continues to be boring in a good way. It is hard to find performance regressions./pp tl;dr/pp/pullicreate index (the l.x step) is faster in Postgres 19beta1. A Postgres e [...]

Published Wednesday, 17. June 2026 01:29 • 12 days ago

MariaDB R2DBC Connector 1.4.1 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Connector/R2DBC 1.4.1 GA release. Download Now Release Notes MariaDB […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 22:24 • 12 days ago

A More Predictable MySQL Release Model: Calendar Versions, LTS, and Innovation ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Understanding the New Cadence: Quarterly CPUs, Targeted CSPUs, and Transitioning to Calendar Versioning MySQL is updating its release model to make releases easier to understand, plan for, and follow: The goal is not simply to change the number on a release. The goal is to give users, DBAs, developers, Linux distributions, cloud platforms, and ecosystem […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 19:46 • 12 days ago

High Performance Real-Time Analytics on MariaDB Cloud: MariaDB Exa Technical Preview ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

We are excited to announce the technical preview of MariaDB Exa on MariaDB Cloud. This release brings high-performance Hybrid Transactional […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 14:59 • 12 days ago

MariaDB Server 10.6 Reaches End of Life on July 6th ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB Server 10.6 has been with us for a long time. It was the last MariaDB LTS released under the previous release model, and it has served many users, distributions, applications, and production environments very well. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Server 10.6 Reaches End of Life on July 6th\"/p pThe post MariaDB Server 10.6 Reaches End of Life on July 6th appeared first on MariaDB.or [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 12:26 • 12 days ago

Extending pt-archiver with a Partition-Aware Plug-in for Fast Retention Policy Enforcement ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pManaging data retention policies is one of the most common operational tasks in MySQL. Applications continuously generate transactional, audit, logging, telemetry, and event data. Over time, these tables can grow to billions of rows, causing: Larger backups Longer recovery times Reduced buffer pool efficiency Slower index maintenance Increased storage costs Degraded query performance To address &# [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 11:31 • 12 days ago

SQL Server may be too lucrative for Microsoft to ditch, but too legacy to love ^{(from The Register)}

Analysts say Redmond still has billions of reasons to keep backing its flagship DBMS, even as Azure, Postgres, and AI hog the spotlight [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 10:00 • 12 days ago

MariaDB + TidesDB: my first steps with this new engine ^{(from lefred's blog)}

After testing the latest Storage Engine in the MariaDB family, DuckDB, I wanted to test another storage engine about which I had only heard good things: TideSQL. TideSQL is the name of the pluggable storage engine for MariaDB Server powered by TidesDB. TidesDB is an LSM-tree-based storage engine, and TideSQL makes it available directly inside […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 08:35 • 12 days ago

MySQL Community Edition Vulnerability Advisory: June 2026 ^{(from One-Time MySQL Community/Ecosystem Posts)}

This page provides a view of the vulnerabilities addressed in MySQL Community Edition in the June 2026 Oracle MySQL Critical Security Patch Update. For this page, “MySQL Community Edition” means Community-distributed MySQL products. Only rows that map to Community-distributed components are included here. [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 00:00 • 13 days ago

The feedback loops behind Kubernetes ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Kubernetes is a framework for feedback controllers: write down what you want, observe what exists, make the next change, and repeat. [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 00:00 • 13 days ago

Using GenAI directly in the database. A practical example using MySQL 8.0 ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

If you have a typical MySQL production setup using MySQL 8.0 (EOL) with replication, you can take advantage of VillageSQL extensions to generate AI responses directly with your source data with no impact on your production setup or existing application software. [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 00:00 • 13 days ago

DB Trail Open Source now has a UI ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

pDB Trail now has a web console. That is the short version 🙂 For as long as dbtrail has existed, you drove it from the command line: find the…/p pThe post DB Trail Open Source now has a UI appeared first on dbtrail./p [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 21:58 • 13 days ago

MariaDB Java Connector 3.5.9, 3.4.3, 3.3.5, and 2.7.14 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Connector/J 3.5.9, 3.4.3, 3.3.5, and 2.7.14 releases. Download Now […] [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 18:14 • 13 days ago

Top 10 Trino Performance Anti-Patterns to Avoid in Production ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

Trino Performance Anti-Patterns are among the most critical challenges facing data engineers running Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) — the powerful distributed SQL query engine designed for fast analytic queries against data of any size. Even experienced [...] [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 17:13 • 13 days ago

MySQL Replication Monitoring: Enhanced Features for the Enterprise Edition ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

MySQL Replication Monitoring is a critical operational discipline — and in MySQL Enterprise Edition, it is also a substantially more capable one. MySQL replication has long served as the backbone of high-availability architectures, disaster recovery [...] [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 14:44 • 13 days ago

Copy of Free MySQL Memory Calculator | Releem ^{(from Releem Blog)}

Use free MySQL Memory Calculator to accurately estimate maximum memory usage for your MySQL server. Get real-time results, visual memory distribution, and optimization tips. Perfect for DBAs and developers to enhance database performance. [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 08:56 • 13 days ago

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports Long-Term Support version 12.3 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pAmazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Long-Term Support Release on Amazon RDS for MariaDB. This preview environment provides a sandbox where you can test applications and explore new MariaDB 12.3 capabilities before they become generally available.br br MariaDB 12.3 includes Oracle TO_DATE() fu [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 07:00 • 13 days ago

Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521 ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pAmazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports new Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in the Amazon RDS User Guide./p pA [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 07:00 • 13 days ago

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8 ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pAmazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community.br br Yo [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 07:00 • 13 days ago

Group Replication VS Percona XtraDB Cluster: The True Cost of Consistency ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pOverview When building high-availability MySQL environments, the choice between MySQL Group Replication (GR) and Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) often comes down to how they handle the eternal database dilemma: data consistency versus performance. While both provide “synchronous-like” replication, they approach the problem of stale reads—reading data that has been committed on one [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 06:58 • 13 days ago

The Failover Brownout: Rethinking High Availability in MySQL Group Replication ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pIt is time to talk again about Flow control and group replication. This time with a special eye on the use of Group Replication in the Kubernetes context. In this article we will dig a bit on how it works and what are the various side effects. The problem Recently I was refining the … Continued/p pThe post The Failover Brownout: Rethinking High Availability in MySQL Group Replication [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 06:57 • 13 days ago

MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Sylvain Arbaudie ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pInterview with Sylvain Arbaudie, nominated in the Technical Excellence category.br The MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions program celebrates the people and organizations who help make the MariaDB ecosystem stronger, more open, and more useful for everyone. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Sylvain Arbaudie\"/p pThe post MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Ch [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 06:30 • 13 days ago

Database Branching for AI Agents: How TINE Solves the Schema Drift Problem ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pKey Takeaways AI coding agents are no longer a novelty. From Claude Code to Cursor’s agent mode, from GitHub Copilot Workspace to OpenAI Codex, “generate an app from a prompt” demos flood developer feeds. Each one follows the same arc: a developer types a prompt, an application appears, and the audience applauds. What those demos […]/p pThe post Database Branching for AI Ag [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 05:03 • 13 days ago

Troubleshooting GCP Cloud SQL Restarts: Incident Response Guide ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

A practical incident response guide to investigate GCP Cloud SQL restarts. Learn how to differentiate planned maintenance from unplanned MySQL crashes using Cloud Logging. [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 04:17 • 14 days ago

Git For Context ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

We built a version of Open Code with version-controlled context. Check it out. [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 00:00 • 14 days ago

See what your database is doing right now with Connections ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Connections lets you monitor and manage all active connections to Postgres and Vitess databases. See active sessions, identify locking patterns, and keep debugging even when normal application connections are exhausted. [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 00:00 • 14 days ago

Producing Skewness statistics with SQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Skewness measures the asymmetry of a distribution. A perfectly symmetric distribution has a skewness of zero. A positive skew (right-skewed) means the tail extends to the right — a small number of high values pull the mean above the median. [...]

Published Sunday, 14. June 2026 00:00 • 15 days ago

Stop Guessing Your Kubernetes MySQL Configs: Meet the MySQL Operator Calculator ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

pLet’s be honest: migrating a relational database to Kubernetes sounds fantastic in a whiteboard meeting, but the reality of day-two operations is a completely different story./p pWhen moving MySQL to Kubernetes, the ultimate goal is simple: identify a safe, performant set of configuration values for your database pods. But where do you start? Usually, you look at your overall node resources say, a [...]

Published Saturday, 13. June 2026 10:46 • 15 days ago

HammerDB tproc-c on a large server, Postgres and MySQL ^{(from Small Datum)}

pThis has results for HammerDB tproc-c on a small server using MySQL and Postgres. I am new to HammerDB and still figuring out how to explain and present results so I will keep this simple and just share graphs without explaining the results.brbrThe comparison might favor Postgres for the IO-bound workloads because I used smaller buffer pools than normal to avoid OOM. I have to do this be [...]

Published Sunday, 15. February 2026 20:42 • 4 months ago | Updated Saturday, 13. June 2026 01:03 • 16 days ago

HammerDB tproc-c on a large server, Postgres 14 to 19 beta1 ^{(from Small Datum)}

pThis has results for HammerDB tproc-c on a large server using MySQL and Postgres. I am new to HammerDB and still figuring out how to explain and present results so I will keep this simple and just share graphs without explaining the results./pptl;dr/pp/pul/ulp/pulliThere are small regressions in versions 16, 17 and 18/liliNOPM usually improves a small amount in 19 beta1 relative to 18/li/ulBuilds, [...]

Published Saturday, 13. June 2026 01:00 • 16 days ago

Exploring the vsql-ai extension ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

The vsql-ai extension adds AI prompt capabilities and text embeddings directly in SQL queries, with support for Anthropic Claude , Google Gemini , OpenAI ChatGPT , or a local LLM such as Ollama . [...]

Published Saturday, 13. June 2026 00:00 • 16 days ago

Group Replication VS Percona XtraDB Cluster: The True Cost of Consistency ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

Overview pWhen building high-availability MySQL environments, the choice between MySQL Group Replication (GR) and Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) often comes down to how they handle the eternal database dilemma: data consistency versus performance. ♦/p pWhile both provide "synchronous-like" replication, they approach the problem of stale reads—reading data that has been commi [...]

Published Friday, 12. June 2026 14:44 • 16 days ago

MariaDB + DuckDB: A New Playground for Analytics – A First Look at the New Storage Engine ^{(from lefred's blog)}

MariaDB just announced it has learned to quack: the new DuckDB storage engine has joined the large family of storage engines in MariaDB Server. The idea is very interesting: use MariaDB Server as usual, but create some tables using ENGINE=DuckDB and benefit from DuckDB’s columnar storage and vectorized execution for analytical queries. In other words, […] [...]

Published Friday, 12. June 2026 11:53 • 16 days ago

MariaDB + DuckDB: A New Playground for Analytics – A First Look at the New Storage Engine ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB just announced it has learned to quack: the new DuckDB storage engine has joined the large family of storage engines in MariaDB Server. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB + DuckDB: A New Playground for Analytics – A First Look at the New Storage Engine\"/p pThe post MariaDB + DuckDB: A New Playground for Analytics – A First Look at the New Storage Engine appeared first on M [...]

Published Friday, 12. June 2026 11:53 • 16 days ago

Guide Multi-Cluster MongoDB on GKE with MCS, Percona Operator ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

Multi-Cluster MongoDB on GKE with MCS Guide Ivan Groenewold, Technical Lead, Percona MongoDB, and I put together a detailed step-by-step guide on deploying the Percona Operator for MongoDB across two GKE clusters using Multi-Cluster Services (MCS) [...]

Published Friday, 12. June 2026 11:00 • 16 days ago

The Failover Brownout: Rethinking High Availability in MySQL Group Replication ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

pIt is time to talk again about Flow control and group replication. This time with a special eye on the use of Group Replication in the Kubernetes context. In this article we will dig a bit on how it works and what are the various side effects. /p p ♦/p The problem pRecently I was refining the calculation I use in the MySQL calculator for Operator given I was constantly encountering a ver [...]

Published Friday, 12. June 2026 08:12 • 16 days ago

Write-heavy sysbench tests, a large server, modern Postgres and MySQL ^{(from Small Datum)}

pThis has results for modern Postgres and MySQL using write-heavy tests from sysbench and a large server. I think there are regressions in Postgres that arrive in some of versions 16, 17, 18 and 19 beta1 but I am far from certain and this blog post is just another step in my journey to figure that out./pptl;dr/pp/pulliPostgres suffers a lot from throughput variation while MySQL+InnoDB does not/lili [...]

Published Friday, 12. June 2026 01:16 • 17 days ago | Updated Friday, 12. June 2026 01:19 • 17 days ago

Producing Chi-Squared statistics with SQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

The Chi-Squared test is one of the most widely used statistical tests for categorical data. It comes in two flavors: the goodness-of-fit test asks whether an observed frequency distribution matches an expected one, while the test of independence asks whether two categorical variables are associated with each other. [...]

Published Friday, 12. June 2026 00:00 • 17 days ago

Conway’s Law in Reverse: Why AI Agents Need One Database, Not Ten ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pAgentic AI did not create a new kind of database. It revealed which ones were already built for it. Across 2026 so far, a wave of large software companies have cut tens of thousands of roles and explained the cuts in nearly identical language: Too many layers of leadership, too many coordination-heavy roles, a need […]/p pThe post Conway’s Law in Reverse: Why AI Agents Need One Databas [...]

Published Thursday, 11. June 2026 21:12 • 17 days ago

Village News: MySQL News + Events (11 June 2026) ^{(from VillageSQL)}

Stay updated with the latest database insights. Check out updates on MySQL 9.7 LTS, MariaDB vector support, VillageSQL tools, and 2026 events. [...]

Published Thursday, 11. June 2026 15:34 • 17 days ago

Your AI now speaks Readyset: announcing the MCP server ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

Readyset ships native MCP support with two transports: a stdio binary for individual developers and an embedded HTTP endpoint for shared production deployments. Claude, Cursor, and any MCP-aware agent can now inspect proxied queries, analyze cacheability, and create or drop caches in real time. [...]

Published Thursday, 11. June 2026 15:24 • 17 days ago

MariaDB shortens maintenance period from 5 to 3 years ^{(from Shinguz's Blog)}

pSomehow this news slipped past me: MariaDB has shortened the support period for the long-term releases of the MariaDB Community Server from 5 to 3 years. OK, I guess that’s not really surprising — I’ve been offline for a good month…/p MariaDB Server LTS Release Support Periods Release GA date EoL date Duration 12.3 28 May 2026 Jun 2029 [...]

Published Thursday, 11. June 2026 07:34 • 17 days ago

MySQL Contributor Summit 2026: Collaboration, Innovation, and Community-Driven Development ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

On May 26, The MySQL Community Team at Oracle welcomed MySQL contributors, customers, partners, and community members to the MySQL Contributor Summit at the Oracle Redwood Shores campus, with additional participants joining remotely. The Contributor Summit brought Oracle engineers and community contributors together to exchange ideas, share ongoing work, and explore opportunities to collabora [...]

Published Thursday, 11. June 2026 00:34 • 18 days ago

The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Large DELETEs add work instead of reclaiming it. Structure your database so deletion becomes DROP TABLE or TRUNCATE. [...]

Published Thursday, 11. June 2026 00:00 • 18 days ago

Avoid shared database accounts with federated IAM authentication ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

In this post, you will learn how to integrate Okta with AWS IAM Identity Center and implement Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) authentication to create a unified authentication flow. You configure attribute-based access control (ABAC) that automatically maps user identities from your IdP to database permissions, supporting interactive user [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 18:15 • 18 days ago

Opening Up the MySQL Bug Process ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

The MySQL team has been working hard to foster innovation, strengthen collaboration with our community, support meaningful contributions, and grow the broader MySQL ecosystem through greater openness and transparency. We believe MySQL is at its best when everyone can see how progress is being made, where work is happening, and how issues move through the […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 17:59 • 18 days ago

MariaDB Connector/C 3.4.9, and 3.3.19 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Connector/C 3.4.9, and 3.3.19. Download Now Release Notes and Changelogs […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 17:42 • 18 days ago

Build Persistent, Scalable AI Agent Memory with TiDB ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pI gave a session at Microsoft Build 2026 on agent memory with TiDB. A few people asked for the code afterward, so here’s a complete write up of the session: The same pattern as the talk, with copy-paste-ready schema and queries. You can watch the original Microsoft Build 2026 session here. Why an Agent Memory […]/p pThe post Build Persistent, Scalable AI Agent Memory with TiDB appeared [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 15:53 • 18 days ago

MariaDB Releases Community Server 12.3 LTS to Consolidate AI Database Infrastructure ^{(from DBTA)}

MariaDB announced MariaDB Community Server 12.3 has reached Generally Available (GA) status, bringing together a year of rapid innovation into a rock-solid, production-ready package maintained for the next three years. Enhanced Oracle and MySQL compatibility features are designed to reduce migration complexity and lower barriers to open-source adoption.? [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 14:15 • 18 days ago

MariaDB Vector Support Upstreamed to Open-WebUI: Single-Database RAG Just Got Faster and Simpler ^{(from Shattered Silicon OSDB Blog)}

pAt Shattered Silicon, we live at the intersection of high-performance databases and production-grade AI. As an open-source contributor in the MariaDB ecosystem and a serious player bridging relational databases with modern AI workloads, we are excited to share our upstream contribution to one of the most popular self-hosted AI platforms: Open-WebUI. Why MariaDB Vector Changes […]/p pThe post [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 12:21 • 18 days ago

MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8, 11.4, 10.11, 10.6 – May 2026’s releases: thank you for your contributions ^{(from lefred's blog)}

On May… we have released an update of our 5 current LTS releases: These new releases contain a large amount of external contributions. The number of contributors is constantly growing, which is great! On behalf of the MariaDB Foundation and the entire MariaDB Team, let me thank you all! If we refer to MariaDB Server […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 11:38 • 18 days ago

MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8, 11.4, 10.11, 10.6 – May 2026’s releases: thank you for your contributions ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pOn May… we have released an update of our 5 current LTS releases:br These new releases contain a large amount of external contributions. The number of contributors is constantly growing, which is great! … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8, 11.4, 10.11, 10.6 – May 2026’s releases: thank you for your contributions\"/p pThe post MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8, 11.4, 10.11, 10.6 [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 11:38 • 18 days ago

MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS Released ^{(from lefred's blog)}

A few days ago, the MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS was released! MariaDB 12.3 is the new Long-Term Support release in the MariaDB 12 series and will be maintained for several years. The first GA version of the 12.3 series is 12.3.2. For users running production systems, this is the kind of release that matters: not […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 05:55 • 18 days ago

Speaking at COSCUP 2026 — Planning your upgrade to MySQL 9.7 ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

I am excited to be speaking at COSCUP 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan on August 8th and 9th. COSCUP (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters) is one of the largest open source conferences in Asia, and it is always a privilege to present to the engaged and technically sharp community there. [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 00:00 • 19 days ago

MySQL 9.7 LTS Is Here: Upgrade and Modernize on a Stronger Community Edition ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

MySQL 9.7 LTS is here, establishing the new MySQL 9.7.x Long-Term Support release line. For organizations running MySQL today, this is the right time to evaluate upgrade plans and move toward a current, supported foundation. It is also a good moment for teams standardizing their database strategy to take a fresh look at MySQL. Whether […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 09. June 2026 21:18 • 19 days ago

MariaDB Node.js Connector 3.5.3 and 3.4.6 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Connector/Node.js 3.5.3 and 3.4.6 GA releases. Download Now Release […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 09. June 2026 19:46 • 19 days ago

Comprehensive Self-Service Backups for Continuous Data Protection in MariaDB Cloud ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

The MariaDB Cloud Backup Service provides organizations with a fully managed service for continuous data protection, mitigating risks from hardware […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 09. June 2026 18:57 • 19 days ago

DuckDB Storage Engine for MariaDB. When the Sea Lion Learns to Quack. ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pAn early look at the DuckDB storage engine for MariaDB — columnar, vectorized analytics that live right next to your transactional tables.br The problembr MariaDB’s InnoDB is excellent at what it was built for: transactions. … /p pContinue reading \"DuckDB Storage Engine for MariaDB. When the Sea Lion Learns to Quack.\"/p pThe post DuckDB Storage Engine for MariaDB. When the Sea [...]

Published Tuesday, 09. June 2026 16:30 • 19 days ago

No More JSON Plumbing: MySQL 9.7 Community Levels Up Duality Views ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Modern applications often pass JSON back and forth with the database server. With MySQL, we have had great JSON support, but working with relational data as JSON usually meant generating documents manually with built-in JSON functions. When an application sent JSON back to the server, we often had to break that document apart and write […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 09. June 2026 14:57 • 19 days ago

Your MySQL Schema is Already a REST API ^{(from VillageSQL)}

Instantly expose your MySQL schema as a REST API with vsql-rest. Get zero-code CRUD, automatic filtering, and JWT auth directly in the database. [...]

Published Tuesday, 09. June 2026 14:30 • 19 days ago

What changed between MySQL 9.7.0-er2 and the final release ^{(from Laurynas Biveinis' blog)}

p I am over a month late with this blog post, but decided to publish it anyway because it might be interesting to learn about the new Oracle development process. /p p I diffed the ER2 source tree against the final release one, similar to how it was done in the ER vs ER2 post. I fed the resulting diff into Claude to classify the changes. The ER2 to final delta is much smaller than the ER to ER2 one [...]

Published Tuesday, 09. June 2026 13:13 • 19 days ago | Updated Tuesday, 09. June 2026 13:28 • 19 days ago

Managing ClickHouse Resources in Multi-Tenant Environments ^{(from Severalnines Blog)}

pWhen people first deploy ClickHouse, their initial reaction is often surprise. Queries that used to take minutes now finish in seconds. Dashboards feel instant even when reading billions of rows. To see this in action, here is a simple aggregation query running against a 200 million row events table: ClickHouse delivers exceptional speed, scanning 200 […]/p pThe post Managing ClickHouse Reso [...]

Published Tuesday, 09. June 2026 11:20 • 19 days ago

Percona Operator for MySQL (PXC) 1.20.0: Automatic Storage Resizing, TLS Certificate Rotation, and ARM64 Support ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pPercona Operator for MySQL PXC 1.20.0 is out today, and it addresses three long-requested operational headaches: storage that grows on its own before it fills up, TLS certificates that rotate without cluster downtime, and images that run natively on ARM64. Disk-full incidents on PXC clusters often arrive at 2 AM when monitoring alerts fire, and … Continued/p pThe post Percona Operator for My [...]

Published Tuesday, 09. June 2026 10:25 • 19 days ago

MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Mark Callaghan ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pInterview with Mark Callaghan, nominated in the Technical Excellence category.br I had the pleasure of speaking with Mark Callaghan, recently nominated for the MariaDB Sea Lion Champions program in the “Technical Excellence” … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Mark Callaghan\"/p pThe post MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Mark Ca [...]

Published Tuesday, 09. June 2026 05:55 • 19 days ago

Why Kimi K2.6 Chose TiDB: The Story Behind Millions of AI Agent Databases ^{(from siddontang on Medium)}

1. Why I Wanted to Write ThispRecently, TiDB Cloud officially became a provider for Kimi K2.6, supporting dynamic, large-scale Agent Database provisioning for Kimi Agent’s website deployment service./ppAs someone who has spent more than ten years building databases, I want to talk about what this kind of scenario really demands from a database — especially the parts that look counterintuitive at fi [...]

Published Tuesday, 09. June 2026 02:58 • 20 days ago

The Model Resets. The State Remains. ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pKey Takeaways There is a moment using an AI agent that ruins you a little, because once you have felt it, you cannot go back. The agent remembers something from three weeks ago that you had half-forgotten you mentioned. Not in a strange way, but in a useful way. It picks up where you actually […]/p pThe post The Model Resets. The State Remains. appeared first on TiDB./p [...]

Published Monday, 08. June 2026 15:43 • 20 days ago

10 MCP servers to connect LLMs with databases ^{(from InfoWorld)}

pModel Context Protocol (MCP) has gained considerable momentum as a standard connector between LLM-powered tools and local systems, internal and external APIs, and data sources. From major clouds to devops tools, MCP servers are enabling powerful, AI-powered development and operations capabilities through natural language commands./p pNowhere is this more true than in the [...]

Published Monday, 08. June 2026 09:00 • 20 days ago

MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Sumit Srivastava ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pInterview with Sumit Srivastava, nominated in the Adoption & Industry Impact category.br I had the pleasure of speaking with Sumit Srivastava, SVP Business Development & Products at Tayana, a Bangalore-based telecom software company. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Sumit Srivastava\"/p pThe post MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: [...]

Published Monday, 08. June 2026 08:41 • 20 days ago

How Fast Is DoltLite? ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

DoltLite replaces SQLite's B-tree interface with a Prolly tree, so we can finally have a fair B-tree vs Prolly Tree race. How do the two data structures compare on sysbench using SQLite's SQL engine? [...]

Published Monday, 08. June 2026 00:00 • 21 days ago

Producing Two Sample T-Test statistics with SQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

The two sample t-test for equal variance is a statistical test to determine if the means of two groups are different enough that the difference is likely caused by some underlying difference, rather than random chance. [...]

Published Monday, 08. June 2026 00:00 • 21 days ago

What’s New At Releem - May 2026 ^{(from Releem Blog)}

In April and May, we added PostgreSQL support, Azure Database for MySQL support, Windows installation improvements, automated configuration changes for Windows, and several Query Analytics updates to make recommendations faster to understand. 🎉 [...]

Published Friday, 05. June 2026 14:01 • 23 days ago

Village News: MySQL/Database News + Events (5 June 2026) ^{(from VillageSQL)}

Stay updated with the latest MySQL and database news, including the OurSQL Foundation announcement, Percona updates, and 2026 tech events. [...]

Published Friday, 05. June 2026 14:00 • 23 days ago

Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS. Repeat, Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS ^{(from The Register)}

SQL Server licenses can now be consumed in the rival cloud's DBaaS [...]

Published Friday, 05. June 2026 13:45 • 23 days ago

Threadpool Performance Assessment - MySQL 9.7.0 vs Mariadb 13.0.1 ^{(from mysql tips)}

Why this assessment of MySQL 9.7.0 vs Mariadb 13.0.1 for threadpoolMariaDB’s thread pool is open source; MySQL’s requires a commercial license and some variation is there so, I thought of assessing to know the real gain of threadpool in terms of performance. This performance assessment, I did on on my 6 core ubuntu 24.0 laptop for read-only, read-write and tpcc cached worklo [...]

Published Wednesday, 03. June 2026 17:31 • 25 days ago | Updated Friday, 05. June 2026 08:45 • 23 days ago

Announcing ProxySQL 3.0.9 and 3.1.9 ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

ProxySQL 3.0.9 and 3.1.9 bring critical security fixes, backend-pool scheduling, ParserSQL, PostgreSQL DNS and SCRAM improvements, Aurora autopurge, and packaging hardening. [...]

Published Friday, 05. June 2026 00:00 • 24 days ago

Percona Live 2026: Reflections from the ProxySQL Team ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

Open source databases, community, and the conversations shaping the future. [...]

Published Friday, 05. June 2026 00:00 • 24 days ago

Thank You for Connecting with ProxySQL at Percona Live 2026 ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

Resources for continuing the MySQL, PostgreSQL, high availability, observability, and database traffic management conversations from Percona Live 2026. [...]

Published Friday, 05. June 2026 00:00 • 24 days ago

The Laptop Return that Broke a RAG Pipeline ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pEditor’s note: This post originally appeared on The New Stack and is republished with permission. The original version is available here. A few months ago, one of our users filed a bug report that stuck with me. They had built a customer-support agent on top of a RAG pipeline. A user asked whether they could return […]/p pThe post The Laptop Return that Broke a RAG Pipeline appeared fir [...]

Published Thursday, 04. June 2026 21:17 • 24 days ago

Why the need for humans won’t disappear in the age of autonomous databases ^{(from The New Stack)}

♦pThe promise of fully autonomous systems — databases that manage, heal, and optimize themselves amid rapidly increasing data stores —/p pThe post Why the need for humans won’t disappear in the age of autonomous databases appeared first on The New Stack./p [...]

Published Thursday, 04. June 2026 17:18 • 24 days ago

RonDB gets a RDMA transporter supporting pNFS Lattice ^{(from Mikael Ronstrom)}

pToday, PEAK-AIO announced pNFS Lattice, a metadata server for Parallel NFS. It is running on top of RonDB using an RDMA transporter./p pNow you might wonder, does RonDB have an RDMA transporter? A few weeks ago the answer would have been no. It has been on the TODO list for more than a decade, but it was not prioritized. However, a few weeks ago Eyal Lemberger from PEAK-AIO contributed an RDMA tr [...]

Published Thursday, 04. June 2026 17:06 • 24 days ago | Updated Thursday, 04. June 2026 17:08 • 24 days ago

Understanding how backups work in Amazon Aurora ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

In this post, we dive deep into the Aurora backup architecture, how it differs from Amazon RDS backups, and the Amazon CloudWatch metrics available to monitor your backup storage usage. Through detailed scenarios and visualizations, we demonstrate how workload patterns and retention periods impact backup costs. We also explore cross-Region backup options and share recommended practices to optimize [...]

Published Thursday, 04. June 2026 15:37 • 24 days ago

Monthly Product Pulse: June 2026—Oracle Technical Resources ^{(from Oracle ACE Program)}

As Oracle AI Database, Autonomous Database, and MySQL continue to evolve, June’s Product Pulse brings together resources that help developers and database professionals work more securely, more efficiently, and with greater confidence. This edition highlights modern SQL improvements, agentic access patterns for Autonomous AI Database, observability enhancements, and the latest MySQL community updat [...]

Published Thursday, 04. June 2026 14:56 • 24 days ago

Inserting in Two Tables in a Single Round-Trip with JSON Duality Views in MySQL 9.7 ^{(from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)}

A few months ago, I was asking myself how to insert in two tables in a single round-trip to the database. I wanted to do that to optimize a process. My optimization involved splitting a table in two, which would need inserting in two tables atomically. The downside was changing an auto-commit INSERT to a transaction with two inserts, which was changing the shape of the workload [...]

Published Thursday, 04. June 2026 14:17 • 24 days ago

Summary of MySQL Public Discussion #4: Updates and Improvements to Contributions – Let’s Talk About What’s Next for MySQL ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

One of the best things about MySQL has always been its community. Whether you’re building applications, running production databases, contributing code, creating tools, writing documentation, answering questions, or simply sharing feedback, you’ve helped make MySQL what it is today. In this discussion we shared updates on where we are today and had a discussion on […] [...]

Published Thursday, 04. June 2026 13:57 • 24 days ago

How to Reduce Database TCO by 30% Without Sacrificing Performance | Mydbops ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Learn how the 30% Rule helps organizations reduce database TCO through architectural modernization, storage efficiency, and performance tuning for MySQL and TiDB. [...]

Published Thursday, 04. June 2026 12:14 • 24 days ago

The Power Of The Community! ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pA proper comparison of the distinct committers to MariaDB and MySQL repositories since Q1 2025./p pThe post The Power Of The Community! appeared first on MariaDB.org./p [...]

Published Thursday, 04. June 2026 11:42 • 24 days ago

Distributed SQL vs. MySQL: Scaling IoT and Chat Apps | Mydbops ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

This technical review compares TiDB and MySQL for IoT and chat platforms, demonstrating how distributed SQL resolves metadata scaling and write ingestion limits while cutting storage costs by 50%. [...]

Published Thursday, 04. June 2026 11:22 • 24 days ago

MariaDB Hidden Gem: Create Aggregate Function ^{(from lefred's blog)}

Have you ever written a query where the GROUP BY was easy, but the aggregate was the problem? You know how to group the rows.You know what result you want for each group.But none of the built-in aggregate functions really match your logic. So you end up with a long expression using SUM(), CASE, IF(), […] [...]

Published Thursday, 04. June 2026 10:41 • 24 days ago

MariaDB Hidden Gem: Create Aggregate Function ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pHave you ever written a query where the GROUP BY was easy, but the aggregate was the problem?br You know how to group the rows.You know what result you want for each group.But none of the built-in aggregate functions really match your logic. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Hidden Gem: Create Aggregate Function\"/p pThe post MariaDB Hidden Gem: Create Aggregate Function appeared first on Mar [...]

Published Thursday, 04. June 2026 10:35 • 24 days ago

PostgreSQL Replication Sandboxes with ProxySQL via dbdeployer ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

A step-by-step technical walkthrough to reproduce the Percona Live demo — provision a Linux VM on macOS, deploy PostgreSQL 16–18 sandboxes with dbdeployer, wire ProxySQL, run pgbench, and inspect proxy-side stats. [...]

Published Thursday, 04. June 2026 00:00 • 25 days ago

Building your first VillageSQL Extension with AI skills ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

This is a technical walkthrough of the vsql-extension-builder recently released May 28 at Percona Live Bay Area 2026 and found at github.com/villagesql/villagesql-skills . Highlights Install VillageSQL pre-built binary first Install SDK with pre-built binary second Install the skill Run it with your AI tool The output can be found at github. [...]

Published Thursday, 04. June 2026 00:00 • 25 days ago

Happy Path, Escape Hatch, and the Space Between ^{(from VillageSQL)}

Learn how VillageSQL balances ease and power in API design using the Happy Path, the Escape Hatch, and the deliberate patience in between. [...]

Published Wednesday, 03. June 2026 17:21 • 25 days ago

VillageSQL Features… déjà vu? ^{(from lefred's blog)}

At events with the MySQL community, when we were enough “veterans,” we had a little ritual: we played Cards Against the MySQL Community. A politically incorrect (but still lighthearted) game that followed the same rules as “Cards Against Humanity.“ Those were some really fun, unforgettable evenings! One of the most popular black cards, which always […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 03. June 2026 14:53 • 25 days ago

Zero-Downtime MySQL to AWS RDS/Aurora Migration Playbook | Mydbops ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Learn how to migrate from self-hosted MySQL to AWS RDS or Aurora with zero-downtime. A comprehensive playbook covering strategy, AWS DMS, and cutover best practices by Mydbops experts. [...]

Published Wednesday, 03. June 2026 10:10 • 25 days ago

Celebrating the MariaDB Foundation Sea Lions Champions Nominees ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pThe MariaDB Foundation Sea Lions Champions recognize individuals and organizations that strengthen the MariaDB ecosystem through technical excellence, community leadership, open-source stewardship, ecosystem impact, and real-world adoption. … /p pContinue reading \"Celebrating the MariaDB Foundation Sea Lions Champions Nominees\"/p pThe post Celebrating the MariaDB Foundation Sea Lions Champ [...]

Published Wednesday, 03. June 2026 08:47 • 25 days ago

From Question to Insight with MySQL Studio ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

When we introduced MySQL Studio, the goal was to bring the common parts of database development and analysis into one OCI workspace: SQL authoring, schema exploration, results visualization, and Ask Studio. The next step is making that workspace more useful during the everyday flow of MySQL work. For many MySQL developers, DBAs, and application teams, […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 03. June 2026 08:05 • 25 days ago

From 100 TPS to 10,000 TPS: A Systematic Tuning Path for MySQL ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

A stage-by-stage MySQL performance tuning guide, InnoDB internals, connection pooling with ProxySQL, read replica scaling, and sharding strategy. [...]

Published Wednesday, 03. June 2026 07:12 • 25 days ago

MariaDB Foundation: Bringing TPC-B Back To Life ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pWhen I joined Pervasive PSQL, one of the first performance test cases I was introduced to was TPC-B. It was already implemented inside Pervasive PSQL and it quickly became one of the most important tools in my daily work. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Foundation: Bringing TPC-B Back To Life\"/p pThe post MariaDB Foundation: Bringing TPC-B Back To Life appeared first on MariaDB.org./p [...]

Published Wednesday, 03. June 2026 01:10 • 26 days ago

A Perfect Complement to PostgreSQL ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

Showing ProxySQL as a protocol-aware proxy solution that works with PostgreSQL [...]

Published Wednesday, 03. June 2026 00:00 • 26 days ago

Rate Limiting (Throttle) for MySQL with ProxySQL and Bintrail ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

pBack in 2020 I wrote about rate limiting writes to MySQL with ProxySQL. The main idea is still valid, but two things changed enough to write it again.…/p pThe post Rate Limiting (Throttle) for MySQL with ProxySQL and Bintrail appeared first on dbtrail./p [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 20:55 • 26 days ago

Beyond Context Windows: Memory is the Runtime for Production Agents ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pAsk a production agent a simple operational question and the cracks show immediately. What did this agent know last Tuesday? Which facts were true before a customer changed their policy? Which records must we purge everywhere because they contain sensitive data, including copies in a semantic index and a restored snapshot? Most agent stacks today […]/p pThe post Beyond Context Windows: Memor [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 20:33 • 26 days ago

I got swarmed by a replication issue ^{(from The consistent voice)}

pI recently worked with a client who runs a mature CI/CD pipeline on GitLab. Docker Swarm as the orchestrator, config files versioned and pulled at deploy time, the whole nine yards. They had been deploying standalone MariaDB instances this way for a while, without a hitch./ppThen came the ask : stand up an async replication cluster. One primary, two replicas, one MaxScale instance sitting in front [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 20:18 • 26 days ago

MariaDB Community Server Corrective Releases ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB Community Server corrective releases are now available for the currently maintained long-term series. These releases address critical CVEs, and we strongly recommend that all users review the security advisories and upgrade as soon as possible. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Community Server Corrective Releases\"/p pThe post MariaDB Community Server Corrective Releases appeared fir [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 19:20 • 26 days ago

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for MySQL now available in new regions and expanded availability zones ^{(from Azure Updates)}

Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server continues to expand its global footprint with new regional availability and enhanced availability zone support. You can now deploy Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server in the Denmark East, Austria East, and Bel [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 19:00 • 26 days ago

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server self-service quota management experience ^{(from Azure Updates)}

Managing your quota is now faster, simpler, and more transparent. Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server supports self-service quota management through the Azure Quotas blade in the Azure portal. You can view your current quota usage and limits, request [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 19:00 • 26 days ago

MariaDB Enterprise Server Q1 2026 Corrective Releases ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

New corrective maintenance releases for MariaDB Enterprise Server 11.8.6-4, 11.4.10-8, and 10.6.25-22 are now available. Download Now Notable Release Updates […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 18:38 • 26 days ago

Snowflake’s Horizon Context aims to give AI agents a common understanding of the business ^{(from InfoWorld)}

pAs enterprises move from AI experimentation to production deployments, one challenge is becoming increasingly apparent: AI systems are only as reliable as the business context they operate in./p pSnowflake is attempting to address that problem with Horizon Context, a new set of semantic and metadata-management capabilities, currently in preview, that it unveiled Tuesday a [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 18:06 • 26 days ago

How GitHub plans to win developers back ^{(from The New Stack)}

♦pFor much of the past year, GitHub has not been the stable utility developers had long gotten used to. Outages,/p pThe post How GitHub plans to win developers back appeared first on The New Stack./p [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 17:56 • 26 days ago

May Product Update ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

Readyset now ships MCP support, PostgreSQL group commit, the UNTIL WRITE caching policy, and more. Plus a new case study hitting 100K QPS on MySQL. [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 17:30 • 26 days ago

Extend MySQL Using Rust ^{(from VillageSQL)}

Discover how the VillageSQL Rust SDK brings native, memory-safe Rust extension development to MySQL, bypassing C++ entirely. [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 15:59 • 26 days ago

Where can you find MySQL during June–August 2026? ^{(from ODBMS.org)}

June 1, 2026 4 minute read Lenka Kasparova MySQL Community Manager The MySQL Community team will be active across conferences, user group meetups, open source events, and regional community activities during the summer months. Whether... [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 14:54 • 26 days ago

MySQL Schema Design Patterns That Enable Linear Scalability ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

Most MySQL performance problems do not start in the query optimizer or the connection pool. They start at the whiteboard, months or years earlier, in the moment someone sketched the first version of a schema [...] [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 11:18 • 26 days ago

The Percona Community Slack is open — come hang out ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

The Percona Community Slack is open — come hang out There’s a new place for the people behind the databases to actually talk to each other. [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 11:00 • 26 days ago

Introducing Tungsten Cluster & Tungsten Replicator v8.0.4 ^{(from Continuent Blog)}

Tungsten Cluster and Tungsten Replicator v8.0.4 is a maintenance release focused on security hardening, updated dependencies, stronger diagnostics, improved replication visibility, safer failover behavior, and reliability fixes across core components.Tags: tungsten clustertungsten replicatordatabase failoverreplication monitoringdatabase securityupdate [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 07:53 • 26 days ago

Announcing Dumbo Garbage Collection ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

MongoDB and Git had a baby, and it's named Dumbo. The latest release has garbage collection! [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 00:00 • 27 days ago

MySQL Resource Quotas, Throttling, and Fair-Share Scheduling: A Practical Guide ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

A practical, production-focused guide to MySQL resource quotas, throttling, and fair-share scheduling — using Resource Groups, MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS, MAX_EXECUTION_TIME, and ProxySQL to protect performance under noisy-neighbor and multi-tenant workloads. [...] [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 00:00 • 27 days ago

Tuning MariaDB for Cloud and Containerized Environments ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

A practical guide to tuning MariaDB for cloud and containerized environments — right-sizing the InnoDB buffer pool, handling cgroup limits in Docker and Kubernetes, taming ephemeral storage and network latency, and building stateful, observable database workloads. [...] [...]

Published Tuesday, 02. June 2026 00:00 • 27 days ago

A New Pull Request Processing Time Record ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pWe have a new record average time to process a pull request: 21 days!br Part of my job is following (and trying to improve of course) some key metrics about MariaDB Server pull request processing. … /p pContinue reading \"A New Pull Request Processing Time Record\"/p pThe post A New Pull Request Processing Time Record appeared first on MariaDB.org./p [...]

Published Monday, 01. June 2026 14:25 • 27 days ago

Where can you find MySQL during June–August 2026? ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

The MySQL Community team will be active across conferences, user group meetups, open source events, and regional community activities during the summer months. Whether you would like to hear about the latest MySQL 9.7 updates, meet the MySQL team, join a user group meetup, or connect with the broader open source and developer community, here […] [...]

Published Monday, 01. June 2026 14:22 • 27 days ago

Agent-led devs need serverless OpenSearch, Amazon claims ^{(from The Register)}

System relies on a proprietary storage layer as AWS moves to separate storage and compute to fit mega AI demands [...]

Published Monday, 01. June 2026 12:45 • 27 days ago

How Meta Rebuilt Data Ingestion for Petabyte-Scale Reliability ^{(from InfoQ)}

♦pThe engineering team at Meta recently outlined how the company migrated a data ingestion platform that transfers several petabytes of MySQL social graph data daily to improve reliability and operational efficiency. The team used techniques like reverse shadowing and continuous checksum monitoring to ensure zero downtime during the transition./p By Renato Losio [...]

Published Saturday, 30. May 2026 06:01 • 29 days ago

MySQL performance with Kubernetes: bare metal vs K8 with docker vs K8 with container ^{(from mysql tips)}

Why database performance assessment with KubernetespNow a days, Kubernetes is being used to manage databases like MySQL/Mariadb for reasons like manageability etc. However, the real question is whether we are aware of the performance overhead costs. So, the objective of my assessment is to find out actual overhead with different runtime like docker or container./pA [...]

Published Thursday, 28. May 2026 05:39 • 1 months ago | Updated Saturday, 30. May 2026 05:34 • 29 days ago

Why using production workloads over simulated workloads is critical ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

AI-Assisted SQL Tuning Last week in his keynote speech at Percona Live Bay Area 2026 , Andy Pavlo presented Databases: The Final Boss of Agents and provided some useful insights into query optimization of simulated workloads leveraging AI. [...]

Published Saturday, 30. May 2026 00:00 • 30 days ago

JSON Duality Views in MySQL 9.7 — What you need to know ^{(from Marcelo Altmann)}

♦pMySQL 9.7 was released as the new LTS, and one of the features that caught my attention is JSON Duality Views. I have written about a few other 9.7 changes already, so this time I wanted to learn about Duality Views and share what I’ve learned./ppThe idea behind a JSON Duality View is simple to state but powerful in practice: the same data is exposed both as normalized relational tables (Your usu [...]

Published Friday, 29. May 2026 23:29 • 30 days ago

MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS Released ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pThe MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS, the latest Long Term Support release of MariaDB Server. The first GA of the 12.3 series is 12.3.2. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS Released\"/p pThe post MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS Released appeared first on MariaDB.org./p [...]

Published Friday, 29. May 2026 16:47 • 30 days ago

Percona Live 2026: AI Won’t ‘Kill’ DBAs, New Open Database Champions Will Rise ^{(from Techstrong.IT)}

pPercona Live 2026 returned to Mountain View, California this month, bringing together database professionals, open source advocates, and practitioners for what the company describes as a no-nonsense, hands-on event. Held at the Computer History Museum (nice people, great museum, so-so conference center top section), the conference was initially anchored by a keynote from new Percona [...]/p pThe [...]

Published Friday, 29. May 2026 13:51 • 1 months ago

Building Smart Semantic Search using PostgreSQL and pgvector. Case Study - Part 1 - Introduction ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

Type “zero downtime database migration” into the site’s search bar and you’ll get articles and talks about database migration with minimal downtime, even if those words aren’t in the titles or content. This is semantic search on PostgreSQL and pgvector, without paid embedding APIs or a separate vector database. In this series I’ll cover how it works and why I chose this stack. [...]

Published Friday, 29. May 2026 11:00 • 1 months ago

PostgreSQL HeapTable + Pin vs MySQL InnoDB IOT + Persistent Cursor ^{(from Chen Zongzhi's Medium blog)}

♦pIn an earlier post I went through the Pin mechanism from PostgreSQL’s Buffer Access 5 Rules. HeapTable + Pin leads to a few more differences from InnoDB, and that’s what this post is about./pWhy InnoDB has a persistent cursorpInnoDB’s persistent cursor exists to preserve the position of an index tree cursor while a query walks the B-tree./ppWhy is that needed? Take a large query. Once you’ve read [...]

Published Friday, 29. May 2026 07:27 • 1 months ago

MySQL HeatWave Document Store for Modern Applications ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Modern applications generate and consume enormous amounts of semi-structured data. User profiles, product catalogs, IoT telemetry, application events, AI prompts, and content metadata rarely fit neatly into rigid relational schemas anymore. At the same time, enterprises still need the reliability, security, analytics, and operational maturity of a traditional database platform. This is where MySQL [...]

Published Friday, 29. May 2026 02:22 • 1 months ago

Evolving with Beads ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

A guide to evolving your Beads setup from classic single-agent mode to server and shared-server modes for multi-agent workflows, with a bonus look at the global Beads database. [...]

Published Friday, 29. May 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Community Server 12.3 LTS: How It Scales AI Workloads and Delivers 4x Write Performance ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

We are thrilled to announce that MariaDB Community Server 12.3 has reached Generally Available (GA) status. As our latest Long […] [...]

Published Thursday, 28. May 2026 19:27 • 1 months ago

Percona celebrates 20th birthday with new foundation — and a goat cake ^{(from The New Stack)}

♦pPercona, which makes a popular open-source database-as-a-service (DBaaS), celebrated its 20th birthday this week with a rebrand, a new supporting/p pThe post Percona celebrates 20th birthday with new foundation — and a goat cake appeared first on The New Stack./p [...]

Published Thursday, 28. May 2026 17:14 • 1 months ago

Porting PostgreSQL Extensions to MySQL using Agent Skills ^{(from VillageSQL)}

Discover how to build and port PostgreSQL extensions to MySQL using VillageSQL's Extension Framework and our new automated CLI agent skill. [...]

Published Thursday, 28. May 2026 14:56 • 1 months ago

OurSQL Foundation launches to support MySQL users, developers, and companies ^{(from One-Time MySQL Community/Ecosystem Posts)}

Today marks the launch of The OurSQL Foundation, an open organisation that will support the community of users, developers, and companies that are invested in the success of MySQL. The new Foundation will provide a venue for those involved in the MySQL community using, building and deploying applications that use MySQL or the broad range of compatible software to share with their peers, to access k [...]

Published Thursday, 28. May 2026 14:00 • 1 months ago

Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.0.0: Hard Fork, OLM Scoping, Major Upgrades ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pThe Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.0.0 is here. This is the release that completes the hard fork of the operator from the Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Operator into a fully independent project, with a dedicated upstream.pgv2.percona.com API group for the inherited CRDs, an automatic CRD-rename rollout for existing 2.x installs on upgrade, and a public roadmap … Continued/p pThe post Percona Op [...]

Published Thursday, 28. May 2026 13:29 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Foundation at Oracle’s MySQL Contributor Summit: Ecosystems, Forks and Constructive Coexistence ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pLast week, Oracle invited MariaDB Foundation to give a presentation at Oracle’s MySQL Contributor Summit 2026. I had the opportunity to participate remotely and speak about MariaDB’s role within the broader MySQL ecosystem. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Foundation at Oracle’s MySQL Contributor Summit: Ecosystems, Forks and Constructive Coexistence\"/p pThe post MariaDB Foundat [...]

Published Thursday, 28. May 2026 12:33 • 1 months ago

A new vendor-neutral foundation to stop MySQL slipping? ^{(from The Stack)}

OurSQL is so vendor-neutral that it does not include MySQL's owner, but its board features folks from AliSQL. [...]

Published Thursday, 28. May 2026 09:01 • 1 months ago

General Availability of the MySQL Flexible Server Quota Management Self-Service Experience ^{(from Azure for MySQL Blog)}

What’s New? pThe updated experience introduces a dedicated Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server Quotas blade in the Azure portal, offering a streamlined and intuitive interface to: /p ul liView current usage and limits across the various SKU families and regions /li liRequest quota increases tailored to your MySQL Flexible Server deployment needs /li /ul pThi [...]

Published Thursday, 28. May 2026 05:58 • 1 months ago

Guide your Amazon Aurora MySQL migration with Kiro powers ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

Today, we announce the Amazon Aurora MySQL power for Kiro. The power connects Kiro’s AI agent to Aurora MySQL and pairs live database access with curated best-practice guidance. You describe what you need in natural language. The agent generates the API calls, SQL, and configuration for you to review and run. In this post, we walk through how the power guides a production migration from Amazon Rela [...]

Published Thursday, 28. May 2026 00:15 • 1 months ago

PostgreSQL HeapTable + Pin vs MySQL InnoDB IOT + Persist cursor ^{(from Chen Zongzhi's GitHub blog)}

前面介绍过 PostgreSQL Buffer Access 5 Rules 里面的 Pin 机制, 其实 HeapTable + Pin 机制还带来了其他和 InnoDB 的区别. [...]

Published Thursday, 28. May 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

Connection Pooling Best Practices for MySQL at Scale ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

A principal database architect's guide to MySQL connection pooling at scale: right-sizing application pools, ProxySQL multiplexing, tuning max_connections and timeouts, avoiding connection storms, and the metrics that actually matter. [...] [...]

Published Wednesday, 27. May 2026 20:01 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Community Server Q2 2026 corrective releases ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Community Server 11.8.8, 11.4.12, 10.11.18, and 10.6.27 corrective releases. See […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 27. May 2026 19:09 • 1 months ago

Optimize costs in Amazon Aurora ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

By implementing modern optimization techniques for Aurora, you can achieve additional cost reduction beyond traditional methods alone. This isn’t only about spending less—it’s about building a more efficient, scalable, and resilient database environment. In this post, we show you a structured approach to optimizing Amazon Aurora database costs. It outlines specific strategies, implementation steps, [...]

Published Wednesday, 27. May 2026 18:15 • 1 months ago

Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports integration with Kiro Powers ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pToday, AWS announces that Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports integration with Kiro Powers, enabling developers to build Aurora MySQL-backed applications faster with AI agent assistance. Kiro Powers is a repository of curated and pre-packaged Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, steering files, and hooks that have been validated by Kiro partners to accelerate specialized software [...]

Published Wednesday, 27. May 2026 15:00 • 1 months ago

Migrate from Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Operator to Percona PostgreSQL Operator: Backup-Restore and PV Reuse ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pA Percona PostgreSQL operator pgBackRest restore is the simplest way to move off the Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Operator: take a full Crunchy backup, point the new Percona cluster’s dataSource at the existing pgBackRest archive, and the cluster bootstraps from it before its first start. This post covers that path, plus a second option, persistent-volume reuse, for cases … Continued/p pThe [...]

Published Wednesday, 27. May 2026 12:02 • 1 months ago

MySQL community establishes independent foundation ^{(from Techzine)}

A group of companies and developers from the MySQL ecosystem has established the OurSQL Foundation. The new organization aims to better align the future of the open-source database with the community while also collaborating more closely with Oracle, the owner of MySQL. The initiators argue that MySQL users and developers need greater transparency regarding the […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 27. May 2026 11:03 • 1 months ago

Virtuozzo Renews Sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pWe are delighted to announce that Virtuozzo has renewed its sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation.br Virtuozzo has been a long-standing supporter of open infrastructure, service providers, and cloud platforms, and we are very pleased to continue strengthening our collaboration. … /p pContinue reading \"Virtuozzo Renews Sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation\"/p pThe post Virtuozzo Renews Sponsorship [...]

Published Wednesday, 27. May 2026 10:48 • 1 months ago

MySQL Execution Plans Explained: Reading and Tuning for Faster Queries ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

A Principal Database Architect's practical guide to reading MySQL execution plans with EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN ANALYZE, decoding the type and Extra columns, and applying proven indexing and query-rewrite techniques to make slow queries fast. [...] [...]

Published Wednesday, 27. May 2026 04:30 • 1 months ago

How MariaDB Cloud Optimizes Database Resilience and Cost: A Deep Dive into High Availability ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB has long been the backbone of mission-critical applications, valued for its rich feature set, developer-friendly SQL dialect and a […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 26. May 2026 17:49 • 1 months ago

MySQL faithful launch OurSQL Foundation to keep Oracle honest ^{(from The Register)}

Community group wants transparency, collaboration, and a clearer roadmap for the open source database [...]

Published Tuesday, 26. May 2026 17:30 • 1 months ago

How Procurement Leaders Realize ROI from Open Source Databases ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pDatabase purchases are often considered just another IT expense. The primary concerns are limited to license fees and sign support contracts. But this mindset ignores hidden costs like downtime, excess capacity, rising renewal fees, and data transfer charges. The financial sector particularly suffers, as proprietary databases hinder system updates for compliance and real-time AI, impose … Co [...]

Published Tuesday, 26. May 2026 15:20 • 1 months ago

Announcing VillageSQL Server 0.0.4 ^{(from VillageSQL)}

Explore VillageSQL Server 0.0.4: now featuring VEF v3, custom aggregates, parameter inference, and preview capabilities like background threads. [...]

Published Tuesday, 26. May 2026 14:00 • 1 months ago

ProxySQL joins MariaDB Foundation as Silver Sponsor ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pWe are very pleased to welcome ProxySQL as a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation.br ProxySQL is the leading proxy for MySQL and has recently focused on supporting more and more of MariaDB, both with the Proxy and with other open-source projects ProxySQL is stewarding, like dbdeployer and orchestrator. … /p pContinue reading \"ProxySQL joins MariaDB Foundation as Silver Sponsor\"/p pThe [...]

Published Tuesday, 26. May 2026 06:10 • 1 months ago

Part 4 - PgBouncer to ProxySQL: Extended and Prepared Protocols ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

Part 4 of the PgBouncer to ProxySQL series. Benchmarks ProxySQL and PgBouncer under PostgreSQL's extended and prepared query protocols. ProxySQL keeps the lead and widens it as worker threads increase. [...]

Published Tuesday, 26. May 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

MySQL Time-Travel with near-ZERO overhead: How bintrail skips the write load ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

pA reader asked four operations-grade questions about Time Travel SQL. Here is how bintrail handles multi-TB tables, retention, monitoring, and partitioning - and how it differs from MariaDB system-versioned tables./p pThe post MySQL Time-Travel with near-ZERO overhead: How bintrail skips the write load appeared first on dbtrail./p [...]

Published Monday, 25. May 2026 16:05 • 1 months ago

Planet for the MySQL Community

A blog / news aggregator for the MySQL Community / Ecosystem

Sunday, 28. June 2026

MySQL Slow Query Log Table: A Practical Guide to Identifying and Fixing Performance Bottlenecks (from MinervaDB Blog)

Saturday, 27. June 2026

InnoDB Recovery and the Buffer Pool Size Paradox: Why Bigger Isn’t Always Better (from MinervaDB Blog)

InnoDB Performance Optimization: The Complete Guide to Tuning MySQL for Maximum Throughput (from MinervaDB Blog)

Preparing Your Analytical Databases for Agents (from Vettabase)

Friday, 26. June 2026

MariaDB Enterprise Server Q2 2026 Maintenance Releases (from MariaDB Corporation Blog)

MySQL's New Governance Model: Two steps forward, one step to the side, and one step backwards (from VillageSQL)

Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees (from The Register)

MariaDB Privacy-First Stack: Nextcloud, Passbolt and MariaDB Server (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Why PostgreSQL needs an AI usage policy (from Percona Community Blog)

Database Backup Strategy: Combining Physical and Logical Methods (from Mydbops Blog)

Doltgres 1.0 Coming August 6th (from DoltHub Blog)

Thursday, 25. June 2026

When Amazon Aurora Stops Scaling: The Ceiling You Can’t Buy Your Way Past (from PingCAP Blog)

From JSON by Hand to a Guided MySQL Enterprise Edition Audit Filter Wizard (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

Skeema 1.14 released (from Skeema Blog)

Open Governance for MySQL: A Step Forward for the Community (from AWS Open Source Blog)

The Next Phase of MySQL Community Engagement: Accelerating Participation and Collaboration (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

Passbolt renews its support for MariaDB Foundation (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

One Postgres cluster, many apps (from PlanetScale Blog)

Wednesday, 24. June 2026

Microsoft rivals line up to tell UK watchdog where the software behemoth hurt them (from The Register)

Aqtra Joins MariaDB Foundation as a Gold Sponsor (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Structured Primary Keys (from Modern SQL)

Tuesday, 23. June 2026

The Fintech AI Platform: Why Agents Need One Database, Not Five (from PingCAP Blog)

Create Replica DB system Made Easy for MySQL HeatWave Service on OCI (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for MySQL: The Ultimate Guide (from MinervaDB Blog)

We just announced the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.1 series. (from lefred's blog)

MariaDB 13.1 Preview: This One Is Full of Community Goodies! (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Producing Alternative Means statistics with SQL (from Ronald Bradford Blog)

Monday, 22. June 2026

The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators (from The Register)

Cloud DB Cost Breakdown: MySQL, PostgreSQL & MongoDB Atlas | Mydbops (from Mydbops Blog)

The MariaDB approach vs the DB Trail for MySQL approach: Comparing time-travel (from dbtrail Blog)

Extending MySQL Capabilities with UDFs, Plugins and Components (from Ronald Bradford Blog)

Saturday, 20. June 2026

Do not uselessly grant CREATE and ALTER TABLE (from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)

MariaDB 13.1 preview available (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Producing One-Sample Z-Test statistics with SQL (from Ronald Bradford Blog)

Friday, 19. June 2026

Switching to JSON Error Logging in MySQL (from Ronald Bradford Blog)

Thursday, 18. June 2026

Simple tool to build MariaDB commits for performance-change analysis (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Scaling Write Throughput in Azure Database for MySQL Using Application-Level Sharding (from Azure for MySQL Blog)

Future proofing MySQL and MariaDB versioning (from OpenLife.cc)

MariaDB Vector in Laravel: insights on choosing an embedding model (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

What People Are Saying: LWN Edition (from DoltHub Blog)

Installing MySQL 9.7 LTS Community Edition on CentOS (from Ronald Bradford Blog)

Wednesday, 17. June 2026

Amazon Aurora and RDS for MySQL expand Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 2029 (from AWS What's New)

Security advisory: CVE-2026-9740 and CVE-2026-11933 in Percona Server for MongoDB (from Percona Database Blog)

Fuzzy String Search for MySQL (from VillageSQL)

MySQL 9.7 – Thank you for your contributions! (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

The insert benchmark on a small server, IO-bound workload : Postgres 19 beta1 (from Small Datum)

Tuesday, 16. June 2026

MariaDB R2DBC Connector 1.4.1 now available (from MariaDB Corporation Blog)

A More Predictable MySQL Release Model: Calendar Versions, LTS, and Innovation (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

High Performance Real-Time Analytics on MariaDB Cloud: MariaDB Exa Technical Preview (from MariaDB Corporation Blog)

MariaDB Server 10.6 Reaches End of Life on July 6th (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Extending pt-archiver with a Partition-Aware Plug-in for Fast Retention Policy Enforcement (from Percona Database Blog)

SQL Server may be too lucrative for Microsoft to ditch, but too legacy to love (from The Register)

MariaDB + TidesDB: my first steps with this new engine (from lefred's blog)

MySQL Community Edition Vulnerability Advisory: June 2026 (from One-Time MySQL Community/Ecosystem Posts)

The feedback loops behind Kubernetes (from PlanetScale Blog)

Using GenAI directly in the database. A practical example using MySQL 8.0 (from Ronald Bradford Blog)

Monday, 15. June 2026

DB Trail Open Source now has a UI (from dbtrail Blog)

MariaDB Java Connector 3.5.9, 3.4.3, 3.3.5, and 2.7.14 now available (from MariaDB Corporation Blog)

Top 10 Trino Performance Anti-Patterns to Avoid in Production (from MinervaDB Blog)

MySQL Replication Monitoring: Enhanced Features for the Enterprise Edition (from MinervaDB Blog)

Copy of Free MySQL Memory Calculator | Releem (from Releem Blog)

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports Long-Term Support version 12.3 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment (from AWS What's New)

Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521 (from AWS What's New)

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8 (from AWS What's New)

Group Replication VS Percona XtraDB Cluster: The True Cost of Consistency (from Percona Database Blog)

MySQL Slow Query Log Table: A Practical Guide to Identifying and Fixing Performance Bottlenecks ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

InnoDB Recovery and the Buffer Pool Size Paradox: Why Bigger Isn’t Always Better ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

InnoDB Performance Optimization: The Complete Guide to Tuning MySQL for Maximum Throughput ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

Preparing Your Analytical Databases for Agents ^{(from Vettabase)}

MariaDB Enterprise Server Q2 2026 Maintenance Releases ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MySQL's New Governance Model: Two steps forward, one step to the side, and one step backwards ^{(from VillageSQL)}

Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees ^{(from The Register)}

MariaDB Privacy-First Stack: Nextcloud, Passbolt and MariaDB Server ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Why PostgreSQL needs an AI usage policy ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

Database Backup Strategy: Combining Physical and Logical Methods ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Doltgres 1.0 Coming August 6th ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

When Amazon Aurora Stops Scaling: The Ceiling You Can’t Buy Your Way Past ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

From JSON by Hand to a Guided MySQL Enterprise Edition Audit Filter Wizard ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Skeema 1.14 released ^{(from Skeema Blog)}

Open Governance for MySQL: A Step Forward for the Community ^{(from AWS Open Source Blog)}

The Next Phase of MySQL Community Engagement: Accelerating Participation and Collaboration ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Passbolt renews its support for MariaDB Foundation ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

One Postgres cluster, many apps ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Microsoft rivals line up to tell UK watchdog where the software behemoth hurt them ^{(from The Register)}

Aqtra Joins MariaDB Foundation as a Gold Sponsor ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Structured Primary Keys ^{(from Modern SQL)}

The Fintech AI Platform: Why Agents Need One Database, Not Five ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

Create Replica DB system Made Easy for MySQL HeatWave Service on OCI ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for MySQL: The Ultimate Guide ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

We just announced the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.1 series. ^{(from lefred's blog)}

MariaDB 13.1 Preview: This One Is Full of Community Goodies! ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Producing Alternative Means statistics with SQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators ^{(from The Register)}

Cloud DB Cost Breakdown: MySQL, PostgreSQL & MongoDB Atlas | Mydbops ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

The MariaDB approach vs the DB Trail for MySQL approach: Comparing time-travel ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

Extending MySQL Capabilities with UDFs, Plugins and Components ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Do not uselessly grant CREATE and ALTER TABLE ^{(from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)}

MariaDB 13.1 preview available ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Producing One-Sample Z-Test statistics with SQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Switching to JSON Error Logging in MySQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Simple tool to build MariaDB commits for performance-change analysis ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Scaling Write Throughput in Azure Database for MySQL Using Application-Level Sharding ^{(from Azure for MySQL Blog)}

Future proofing MySQL and MariaDB versioning ^{(from OpenLife.cc)}

MariaDB Vector in Laravel: insights on choosing an embedding model ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

What People Are Saying: LWN Edition ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

Installing MySQL 9.7 LTS Community Edition on CentOS ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Amazon Aurora and RDS for MySQL expand Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 2029 ^{(from AWS What's New)}

Security advisory: CVE-2026-9740 and CVE-2026-11933 in Percona Server for MongoDB ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

Fuzzy String Search for MySQL ^{(from VillageSQL)}

MySQL 9.7 – Thank you for your contributions! ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

The insert benchmark on a small server, IO-bound workload : Postgres 19 beta1 ^{(from Small Datum)}

MariaDB R2DBC Connector 1.4.1 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

A More Predictable MySQL Release Model: Calendar Versions, LTS, and Innovation ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

High Performance Real-Time Analytics on MariaDB Cloud: MariaDB Exa Technical Preview ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB Server 10.6 Reaches End of Life on July 6th ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Extending pt-archiver with a Partition-Aware Plug-in for Fast Retention Policy Enforcement ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

SQL Server may be too lucrative for Microsoft to ditch, but too legacy to love ^{(from The Register)}

MariaDB + TidesDB: my first steps with this new engine ^{(from lefred's blog)}

MySQL Community Edition Vulnerability Advisory: June 2026 ^{(from One-Time MySQL Community/Ecosystem Posts)}

The feedback loops behind Kubernetes ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Using GenAI directly in the database. A practical example using MySQL 8.0 ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

DB Trail Open Source now has a UI ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

MariaDB Java Connector 3.5.9, 3.4.3, 3.3.5, and 2.7.14 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

Top 10 Trino Performance Anti-Patterns to Avoid in Production ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

MySQL Replication Monitoring: Enhanced Features for the Enterprise Edition ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

Copy of Free MySQL Memory Calculator | Releem ^{(from Releem Blog)}

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports Long-Term Support version 12.3 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment ^{(from AWS What's New)}

Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521 ^{(from AWS What's New)}

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8 ^{(from AWS What's New)}

Group Replication VS Percona XtraDB Cluster: The True Cost of Consistency ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

The Failover Brownout: Rethinking High Availability in MySQL Group Replication ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Sylvain Arbaudie ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Database Branching for AI Agents: How TINE Solves the Schema Drift Problem ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

Troubleshooting GCP Cloud SQL Restarts: Incident Response Guide ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Git For Context ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

See what your database is doing right now with Connections ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Producing Skewness statistics with SQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Stop Guessing Your Kubernetes MySQL Configs: Meet the MySQL Operator Calculator ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

HammerDB tproc-c on a large server, Postgres and MySQL ^{(from Small Datum)}

HammerDB tproc-c on a large server, Postgres 14 to 19 beta1 ^{(from Small Datum)}

Exploring the vsql-ai extension ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Group Replication VS Percona XtraDB Cluster: The True Cost of Consistency ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

MariaDB + DuckDB: A New Playground for Analytics – A First Look at the New Storage Engine ^{(from lefred's blog)}

MariaDB + DuckDB: A New Playground for Analytics – A First Look at the New Storage Engine ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Guide Multi-Cluster MongoDB on GKE with MCS, Percona Operator ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}