There are moments in life when things, simply, converge. You work and study, study and work, and then, simply, it happens. It starts one day when somebody tells you “there is this new thing called...

Lyft details a new pickup experience to improve reliability in gated communities, where 25–30% of rides face routing and access challenges. The system uses mapping signals, boundary detection, and...

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...

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...

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...

The Jupyter Foundation is excited to announce that we have contracted with Jason Grout to be a part-time Jupyter Foundation Community Manager. The primary purpose of this role is to strengthen the...

Following the strong engagement across the first three editions of our Public MySQL Community Discussion series, we’re pleased to invite you to Edition #4. We will focus on the upcoming...

Alkin Tezuysal Director of Services at Altinity Inc. MySQL 9.7 came out on April 21 and I’ve been going through the release notes so you don’t have to. The short version: Oracle has made several...

I have written a new post on the MySQL blog about the hypergraph optimizer, which is now available in MySQL 9.7 Community Edition. The post gives a high-level technical overview of what is...

npmx is an open-source package browser for the npm registry, developed by Daniel Roe and over 250 contributors. It emphasizes speed and features absent in the official npmjs.com interface, such as...

On April 21, 2026, our third public discussion continued the conversation around transparency, participation, and the future of MySQL. Building on the momentum from earlier sessions, the...

MySQL 9.7 Community Edition now includes the hypergraph optimizer as an alternative to the classic join optimizer, making this capability available across all MySQL editions. This is not a...

As part of our MySQL community engagement plan, which includes delivering new features into MySQL Community Edition, increasing collaboration and transparency, and expanding and growing the MySQL...

With MySQL 9.7.0 LTS, MySQL establishes its next long-term support release line, expands key capabilities in Community Edition, and introduces Dynamic Data Masking for Enterprise users. The April...

Following the strong participation in the first two editions of our Public MySQL Community Discussion webinar series, we’re excited to invite you to Edition #3. These sessions are part of our...

Andrew Davidson and Akshat Vig discuss the journey of disrupting the transactional database market. They explain why the document model became the "Buckminster Fuller" moment for modern apps and...

On March 23, 2026, the MySQL Community Team hosted our second public discussion focused on shaping a new era of MySQL community engagement. With over 50 attendees participating, the session...

More MySQL Worklogs and MySQL Developer Guide published As we ramp up to the MySQL Community Edition release in April, and as part of your our updated community engagement approach (see: A New Era...

MySQL benefits from a large and technically rigorous community—people who run MySQL at scale, test it in diverse environments, and surface issues (and ideas) that make the product better. Over the...