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When you design an extensibility API, you face a tension: make it easy, or make it powerful? We think the answer is both — but not all at once. Here's how we think about it at VillageSQL, illustrated through VDFs, our modern replacement for MySQL's UDF system.
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VillageSQL launched with C++ as the language for writing extensions — C++ is familiar territory for MySQL developers. Rust has become a go-to language for systems and infrastructure developers: the same people who build database connectors, storage engines, and performance-critical services. VillageSQL's new Rust SDK adds it as a
VillageSQL
VillageSQL is a tracking fork of MySQL that adds the VillageSQL Extension Framework (VEF). Extensions are written in C++ (with a Rust SDK coming soon), packaged as .veb bundles, and installed with SQL. The fastest way to understand what VEF can do is to build something with it. To make
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VillageSQL Server 0.0.4 is now available (and marked as the stable release for installs). 0.0.4 takes the parameterized types and SQL integration from 0.0.3 and extends them in two directions: * smarter server reasoning (inference rules, custom aggregates) * operational completeness (config, metrics, secrets management) Extensions
We're on the road next week with three Bay Area events across the MySQL community. If you're at any of them, come say hi — in-person chats are so much more fun than messaging over GitHub. Oracle MySQL Community Contributors Summit - May 26, 2026 We'
MySQL still runs a remarkable share of the internet — 42% of the web is WordPress alone, plus many transactional applications you can probably name. But, the developer community is having a real argument about MySQL's future. * Stack Overflow's most recent survey put PostgreSQL ahead of MySQL
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As part of building the MySQL Community, we are going to publish a curated overview of MySQL and database news and events that you might have missed over the last period. If you want to get these updates, just subscribe to the blog. Enjoy! MySQL News: Note: Aggregated MySQL news
MySQL stores numbers well. What it can't do is treat a row's values as a multi-dimensional point in space. Standard MySQL spatial types are strictly limited to 2D (or 2D+Z) GIS data. It can’t check whether that point falls inside a bounding region, measure
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As part of building the MySQL Community, we are going to publish a curated overview of MySQL and database news and events that you might have missed over the last period. If you want to get these updates, just subscribe to the blog. Enjoy! MySQL News: Note: Aggregated MySQL news
Most AI integrations with a database follow the same pattern: your application fetches rows, ships them to an AI API, waits for a response, then writes the result back. It works, but it means adding a service layer to do something that's conceptually simple—apply a function to
Every second, your database rows change: a new customer, a successful payment, a fresh sign-up. But while your business happens out in the world, your SQL logic is usually confined to the database itself. The world your application actually serves lives outside it—in webhooks, APIs, third-party services, and notification
On April 20, 2026, VillageSQL’s CTO Steve Schirripa gave a talk to Carnegie Mellon's (CMU) Database Research Group as part of Andy Pavlo’s Spring 2026 Seminar Series. You can watch the full recording here. The full title of the session is "The Extensibility Tax: Decisions,
As part of building the MySQL Community, we are going to publish a curated overview of MySQL and database news that you might have missed over the last period. If you want to get these updates, just subscribe to the blog. Enjoy! MySQL News: Note: Aggregated MySQL news can be
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And we have a winner! It was a busy weekend of match ups and we have our champion. Round 2 Results #1 Oracle vs. #2 MongoDB - Winner = Oracle Oracle has too much enterprise credibility to overcome and they outlast the document database fans to win its matchup. #1 MySQL
MySQL 8.0 reaches end of life (EOL) in April 2026. Oracle will stop issuing security patches, bug fixes, and official support on that date. Most production workloads likely already have a plan in place, but just in case, we thought it might be useful to do a recap of
As part of building the MySQL Community, we are going to publish a curated overview of MySQL and database news that you might have missed over the last period. If you want to get these updates, just subscribe to the blog. Enjoy! MySQL News: Note: Aggregated MySQL news can be
Round 1 is a wrap! The Cinderella story continues for DuckDB while the heavyweights battle it out for supremacy. Round 1 Results: East Region: #1 Oracle vs. #4 InfluxDB - Winner: Oracle Oracle proves yet again that no CIO can resist sending an RFP to Oracle and eventually giving them
The 0.0.3 release of VillageSQL Server is now available. This update adds broader support for standard SQL operations, provides a more idiomatic C++ experience, and starts to expand what custom types can do by introducing Parametrized Types. We also rebased the server onto the latest MySQL LTS release,
As it’s spring and time for tournaments, we wanted to explore what would happen if the most popular database technologies squared off! This is our (just for fun) view of what might happen if there was a real bake-off based on popularity and functionality. Who would win the hearts
