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
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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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,
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
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 a key figure in MySQL’s history, Tomas Ulin has a unique perspective. He lived through some of the most dynamic eras of the database's history from the inside. Now, as a member of the VillageSQL team, he hopes to put permissionless innovation in the hands of
Extending MySQL has traditionally meant a difficult choice: maintain a complex fork or accept the performance and functional limitations of the legacy UDF, plugin, or component systems. We built VillageSQL to provide a new path: a stable, versioned Application Binary Interface (ABI) for loading custom types and logic into MySQL
At this year's preFOSDEM MySQL Days, Dominic Preuss and Tomas Ulin presented VillageSQL’s vision for how to solve one of the bottlenecks of upstream contributions in the MySQL ecosystem through an extension framework. This annual event brings together the MySQL community to share ideas and updates. You