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Tournament of Databases: Road to Resilience

Tournament of Databases: Road to Resilience

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

By Dominic Preuss 19 Mar 2026
Village News: MySQL/Database News - 17 March 2026

Village News: MySQL/Database News - 17 March 2026

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

By Dominic Preuss 17 Mar 2026
Village News: MySQL/Database News (February 27, 2026)

Village News: MySQL/Database News (February 27, 2026)

As part of community building, 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: A battle for MySQL’s heart – and future?

By Dominic Preuss 27 Feb 2026

Introducing VillageSQL: A New Path for MySQL in the Agentic AI Era

MySQL is the world's most popular open-source database by many measures but a persistent innovation gap has emerged. This gap causes developers to select other databases over MySQL for new application development, particularly when AI is involved. Today, we are launching VillageSQL to close that gap and empower

By Dominic Preuss 04 Feb 2026
VillageSQL Raises $35M to Reignite Innovation in MySQL

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VillageSQL Raises $35M to Reignite Innovation in MySQL

Today, we are excited to launch VillageSQL to give the MySQL community a new path forward by enabling permissionless innovation via extensions. As founders with decades of experience building databases and storage infrastructure at Google and Amazon, we created VillageSQL to reignite innovation in MySQL. We have an experienced team

By Dominic Preuss 04 Feb 2026
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