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[Read more]Organizations modernizing transactional database environments are increasingly adopting MySQL HeatWave to simplify operations, improve scalability, increase availability, enhance security and enable real-time analytics without separating OLTP and OLAP systems. However, successful adoption requires more than simply provisioning a new database instance. This blog explores practical best practices for provisioning and migrating OLTP and OLAP workloads […]
As organizations modernize their data platforms, MySQL HeatWave has emerged as a powerful solution for running online transactional processing (OLTP) and real-time online analytics processing (OLAP) together without ETL complexity. However, achieving optimal performance and cost efficiency requires thoughtful capacity planning. This blog explains how to monitor and estimate MySQL HeatWave capacity using SQL queries, […]
Modern cloud applications are expected to remain available even during infrastructure interruptions, replication failovers, maintenance events, and transient network failures. In distributed database environments, it requires applications to treat transient failures as a normal part of production operations. This blog discusses practical API reliability designs for applications using MySQL HeatWave High Availability and Read Replicas, […]
ProxySQL 3.0.8 extends session-variable tracking beyond parsed SET statements by consuming MySQL session-state notifications from backend OK packets.
Modern AI systems increasingly rely on multimodal data: text,
images, documents, audio, and video. Among these modalities,
image understanding has become one of the most important
capabilities for AI-powered applications.
Traditionally, implementing these capabilities required
specialized computer vision infrastructure, external vector
databases, custom ML pipelines, and multiple frameworks.
With MySQL HeatWave GenAI, many of these capabilities can now be
implemented directly inside SQL workflows using built-in AI
routines.
In this article, we will build the foundations of a Vision Model
Evaluation Assistant using MySQL HeatWave GenAI. The objective is
not to create another image classifier, but rather a semantic
image understanding platform.
The post Building an AI Vision Search Engine with MySQL …
[Read more]Following the strong engagement across the first three editions of our Public MySQL Community Discussion series, we’re pleased to invite you to Edition #4. We will focus on the upcoming contribution process changes and our Contributor Summit later in May. This ongoing series is part of our commitment to increase transparency, strengthen collaboration, and provide […]
MySQL 9.7 LTS Support Lands Released May 8, 2026 · GitHub Release
v1.26.5 introduces a MySQL Component build for MySQL 8.4 LTS and 9.7 LTS, a unified logging abstraction, and a set of plugin stability fixes. The plugin path for MySQL 8.0, 8.4, and 9.0 is unchanged.
Why the Component architecture matters
MySQL has been deprecating the legacy plugin API in favor of the
Component architecture since 8.0. Components install via
INSTALL COMPONENT, integrate through typed service
interfaces, and are better isolated from server internals —
meaning fewer breakages across MySQL minor versions and a
supported path forward as the plugin API winds down. For
MyVector, this move isn’t optional in the long run: the component
model is where MySQL’s extension ecosystem is heading, and
building on it now means users on …
In modern application development, observability is no longer optional. It is a core requirement for stable operations, faster troubleshooting, and better understanding of system behavior. Databases are especially important because they often sit at the center of application performance. When a database becomes slow, overloaded, or unavailable, the impact is usually felt across the entire […]
May 2026 · 5 min read. Alkin Tezuysal
Cross blog from Oracle https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/mysql-9-7-is-out-and-the-community-wins
MySQL 9.7 came out on April 21 and I’ve been going through the release notes so you don’t have to. The short version: Oracle has made several previously Enterprise-only features available in the Community Edition; the Hypergraph Optimizer is now free for everyone; and if you’re still on MySQL 8.0, it has reached End-of-Life. Like right now. We’ll get to that.
Let’s go through what matters most.
First: MySQL 8.0 has reached End-of-Life
MySQL 8.0.46 shipped alongside 9.7, and it is the last 8.0 release. As of April 2026, 8.0 is officially End-of-Life. No more security patches. No …
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