Village News: MySQL News + Events (6 October 2026)
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MySQL News
Note: Aggregated MySQL news can be found at Planet for MySQL Community and Planet MySQL (Oracle curated)
Thread Pool in Percona Server and MySQL (Part 1)
Percona Blog
TL;DR - MySQL 26.7.0 and 9.7.2 bring a thread pool to Community Server for the first time.
TidesDB now available for MySQL v9, v26
Alex Gaetano Padula, TidesDB Blog
TL;DR - TideSQL-MySQL 2.0.0 loads the TidesDB engine as a plugin into stock MySQL 9.7.0 and 26.7.0, so TidesDB tables can sit alongside InnoDB tables in the same server. For now it installs with a script from the repository.
How easy is it to use the VillageSQL MCP extension?
Ronald Bradford
TL;DR - Ronald built and installed vsql-mcp on a throwaway server in about four minutes and answered a business question through a SELECT-only MCP user. His attempts to get past its guardrails were blocked.
Database News
Supabase is acquiring Turso
Paul Copplestone, Supabase Blog
TL;DR - Supabase is buying Turso, the team that rewrote SQLite in Rust, to build database infrastructure for AI agents. Turso founders Glauber Costa and Pekka Enberg join Supabase's leadership.
Amazon Aurora's analytics is DuckDB: a reproducible side-by-side with pg_duckdb
Franck Pachot
TL;DR - Franck puts Aurora PostgreSQL's aurora_analytics and pg_duckdb side by side. The EXPLAIN plans match, down to DuckDB's internal compression operators and constants, which shows that Aurora's S3 Parquet/Iceberg analytics runs on embedded DuckDB.
MariaDB Foundation Adds PostgreSQL to Its Engine‑Agnostic Testing Framework (TAF).
Jonathan Miller, MariaDB Foundation
TL;DR - TAF gains a PostgreSQL plugin and beta HammerDB TPROC-C/TPROC-H and Sysbench profiles, so MariaDB, MySQL and Postgres can be benchmarked under identical, reproducible conditions.
Scale without limits: Multigres, OrioleDB, and dbarena
Supabase Blog
TL;DR - At Supabase Select, the company launched three things. Multigres (pooling and multi-node failover for Postgres) is in private alpha. The OrioleDB storage engine is in public beta. dbarena, an open benchmark site comparing managed Postgres providers, is live.
When AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Very Busy Year for MariaDB Security
Frédéric Descamps, MariaDB Foundation
TL;DR - AI-assisted research drove 173 security reports over two quarters, which led to 27 published advisories and delayed some MariaDB releases. Update to the latest maintenance releases.
Benchmark Analysis with HammerDB TPROC-C(TPC-C) on TideSQL v5.1.0, InnoDB in MariaDB v11.4.13
Alex Gaetano Padula, TidesDB Blog
TL;DR - On a 3,000-warehouse TPROC-C run, TideSQL and InnoDB peaked at similar NOPM, but InnoDB had half the p99 latency. TideSQL held throughput at 128 VUs, where InnoDB dropped 34%. The author notes that one InnoDB setting was left untuned.
Influence Is Not Ownership: Anna Widenius and Kaj Arnö on Governance, Open Source, and the Future of MariaDB
Roberto V. Zicari, ODBMS Industry Watch
TL;DR - The MariaDB Foundation's leaders explain its newly formalised governance. Authority comes from contribution rather than employer, and there is a defined path from contributor to committer, reviewer and maintainer.
Designing Neki for performance
Dirkjan Bussink, PlanetScale
TL;DR - PlanetScale's sharded-Postgres router decodes lazily. Point lookups pass through as raw wire-protocol bytes, and only sort keys or row boundaries get decoded when a query needs them.
Working with foreign key constraints in Aurora DSQL
Rekha Reddy Anupati and Arnab Chowdhury, AWS Database Blog
TL;DR - Aurora DSQL foreign keys are checked against the transaction snapshot, and conflicting concurrent key changes fail at commit with SQLSTATE 40001. Cascades count toward the 3,000-row transaction limit, and existing tables can use NOT VALID plus async validation.
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