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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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