Village News: MySQL/Database News (8 April 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.
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MySQL News:
Note: Aggregated MySQL news can be found at Planet for MySQL Community and Planet MySQL (Oracle only)
Celebrating 30 Years of MySQL: Free Training & Certification Results
TL;DR - Oracle publishes stats on training and certifications completed in history of MySQL
Join the Public MySQL Community Discussion Webinar (Edition #3)
TL;DR - Oracle continuing the drumbeat to engage with community with greater visibility of roadmap items in MySQL.
Google Cloud introduces QueryData to help AI agents create reliable database queries
TL;DR - Semantic layers to improve query accuracy are becoming more important and Google adds an entrant for GCP proprietary databases.
Writing My Own Extension For Village SQL Part II
TL;DR - Follow up from Dave Stokes process to write a new extension for VillageSQL.
MySQL 9.7.0 vs sysbench on a small server
TL;DR - Mark Callaghan publishes early benchmarks of MySQL 9.7.0 on small server.
Sysbench vs MySQL on a small server: another way to view the regressions
TL;DR - Another way to see the performance regressions in MySQL from versions 5.6 to 9.7
Announcing the future of Orchestrator: ProxySQL takes takes the helm
TL;DR - ProxySQL takes over ownership of the Orchestator project and promises to add support for PostgreSQL.
Database News:
MariaDB Foundation releases the BETA of the Test Automation Framework (TAF) 2.5
TL;DR - Foundation releases test framework with significant improvements
When “Committed” Doesn’t Mean Durable: What Jepsen Found in Galera Cluster
TL;DR - Jepsen Identifies Four Scenarios Across Failure and Normal Operation
Bringing databases and Kubernetes together
TL;DR - Write-up of Open Everest efforts to become default for operating databases on k8s.
Introducing Metrics SQL: A SQL-based semantic layer for humans and agents
TL;DR - Schematic layers to stand between your LLMs and SQL databases are becoming a hot topic. A new entrant into the space.
And now for something completely different: IngoDB – Nyrkiö Blog
TL;DR - Long-time database community member Henrik Ingo vibe-codes a database that only AI could imagine.
Durable Objects in Dynamic Workers: Give each AI-generated app its own database
TL;DR - Dynamic workers backed by Postgres etc.
IBM Demonstrates Extreme Scale for Content-Aware Storage with 100B Vector Database - HPCwire
TL;DR - IBM wants to get into the vector benchmarking conversation.
Upcoming Database Events:
PostgreSQL vs. The World Seminar Series - Carnegie Mellon University Database
The Extensibility Tax: Decisions, Principles, and Lessons from a Year of Teaching MySQL New Tricks
April 20, 2026 @ 04:30pm EDT (Monday) | Location: Zoom
PGConf.de 2026
April 21–22, 2026 | Haus der Technik | Essen, Germany
IEEE ICDE 2026 (International Conference on Data Engineering)
May 4–8, 2026 | Montréal, Canada
Percona Live ‘26 Bay Area (VillageSQL is Platinum Sponsor)
May 27–29, 2026 | Computer History Museum | Mountain View, California
ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2026 (Special Interest Group on Management of Data / Principles of Database Systems)
May 31–June 5, 2026 | Bengaluru, India
VLDB 2026 | 52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Aug 31st - Sep 4th, 2026 | Boston, MA, USA
PostgreSQL Community Event PGConf.EU 2026
September 20-23, 2026 | Valencia, Spain
Percona Live - Amsterdamn
September 9-11, 2026 | Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
High Performance Transaction Systems (HPTS)
October 4-7, 2026 | Asilomar Conference Grounds | Pacific Grove, CA
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America | LF Events
November 9-12 | Salt Lake City, Utah
