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MySQL Repository Analysis Reveals Declining Development and Shrinking Contributor Base
A recent report has analyzed the repository statistics of the MySQL server to evaluate the project's status, Oracle's commitment to MySQL, and the future of the community edition. Julia Vural, software engineer manager at Percona, writes:
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PlanetScale Extends Database Platform to PostgreSQL
PlanetScale has announced the general availability of its managed sharded Postgres service, built for performance and reliability on AWS or Google Cloud. The launch extends PlanetScale's offerings to PostgreSQL users, adding to the company's existing popular MySQL-based platform built on top of Vitess.
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Uber Achieves 150M Reads per Second with CacheFront Improvements
Uber has updated its CacheFront architecture to handle over 150 million reads per second. The new design improves consistency and reduces stale reads by integrating Flux for MySQL binlog tailing, enhancing the storage engine, and introducing Cache Inspector for monitoring and optimization.
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MySQL AI Introduced for Enterprise Edition
Oracle has recently announced MySQL AI, a new set of AI-powered capabilities available exclusively in the MySQL Enterprise edition, targeting analytics and AI workloads in large deployments. Concerns are rising throughout the MySQL community over the future of the popular Community edition, amid fears of vendor lock-in and following recent internal layoffs.
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Yearly MariaDB LTS Release Integrates Vector Search
MariaDB has recently released MariaDB Community Server 11.8 as generally available, its yearly long-term support (LTS) release for 2025. The new release introduces integrated vector search capabilities for AI-driven and similarity search applications, enhanced JSON functionality, and temporal tables for data history and auditing.
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PlanetScale Vectors Now GA: MySQL's Missing Feature?
PlanetScale has recently announced that vector support is now generally available. Created as a fork of MySQL, this new feature allows storing vector data alongside an application's relational MySQL data, removing the need for a separate specialized vector database.
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Azure Database for MySQL Trigger for Azure Functions in Public Preview
Microsoft's Azure Database for MySQL now features a public preview of triggers for Azure Functions, enabling real-time data processing with event-driven automation. This innovative integration allows developers to track table changes seamlessly, enhancing analytics, compliance, and security, while scaling efficiently within Azure's serverless framework.
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Google Cloud Launches Gen AI Toolbox for Databases
Google Cloud has announced the public beta launch of Gen AI Toolbox for Databases, an open-source server developed in collaboration with LangChain. This new tool is designed to help developers seamlessly integrate production-grade, agent-based generative AI applications with databases while ensuring secure access, scalability, and observability.
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Aurora Serverless v2 Adds Zero-Capacity Scaling for True Serverless
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 has recently announced that it now supports scaling to zero capacity, enabling the database to automatically pause after a period of inactivity based on database connections. The lack of the ability to scale to zero capacity for Aurora's on-demand automatic scaling configuration has been a contentious topic for many years.
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Uber Achieves Significant Storage Savings with MyRocks Differential Backups
Uber has written about successfully implementing a new differential backup system for its distributed databases, which led to storage cost reductions of up to 70%. Uber engineers developed this solution in response to growing storage costs and lengthy backup completion times that emerged after Uber migrated storage services to MyRocks, a MySQL storage engine based on RocksDB.
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Amazon Aurora Introduces Global Database Writer Endpoint for Distributed Applications
Amazon Aurora has recently introduced a Global Database writer endpoint to streamline routing for applications in disaster-recovery scenarios. This highly available global endpoint removes the need for application code changes to reestablish connectivity following a cross-region switchover or failover operation.
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Uber Completes Major MySQL Fleet Upgrade, Boosting Performance and Security
Uber has detailed improvements to its MySQL database fleet by upgrading from version 5.7 to 8.0. The team wanted to take advantage of performance and concurrency improvements in newer versions of MySQL, and because MySQL 5.7 was reaching end-of-life in October 2023. The work took over a year and involved upgrading more than 2,100 clusters and 16,000 nodes across 19 production zones in 3 regions.
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Amazon RDS for MySQL Zero-ETL Integration with Amazon Redshift
Amazon RDS for MySQL's zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available, enabling near real-time analytics and machine learning on transactional data. This powerful feature allows customized data replication from a single RDS database and facilitates seamless scalability, ensuring businesses gain insights while controlling costs and maintaining data freshness.
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Security Experts Exploit Airport Security Loophole with SQL Injection
In the article "Bypassing airport security via SQL injection," two security researchers recently demonstrated how they executed a simple SQL injection attack on a service that enables pilots and flight attendants to bypass airport security screening.
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How Amazon Aurora Serverless Manages Resources and Scaling for Fleets of 10K+ Instances
AWS engineers published a paper describing the evolution and latest design of resource management and scaling for the Amazon Aurora Serverless platform. Aurora Serverless uses a combination of components at different levels to create a holistic approach for dynamically scaling and adjusting resources to satisfy the needs of customer workloads.