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