The latest from the MySQL community

Note: The opinions below represent my personal perspective only. They don’t include any confidential information or represent the views of Oracle or my current employer, Percona.

The question I brought home after this conference is:

Was this an AI conference because everyone is already using AI, or because they want you to use AI?

For context, I’ve worked with MySQL databases for more than 12 years, mainly focused on the open-source ecosystem. However, as an Oracle ACE Director, I also keep an eye on what’s happening with the enterprise and cloud offerings. Understanding what happens outside — even in the PostgreSQL world — helps me see how MySQL differentiates itself and maintains its position as the leading open-source database, although it has lost ground to Postgres in recent years.

MySQL HeatWave feature announcements at Oracle AI World

MySQL HeatWave is the only fully managed MySQL database service that combines transactions, analytics, machine learning, and GenAI services, without ETL. It also includes the capabilities to query data in object store and provides the best price performance in the industry. MySQL HeatWave is available on Oracle OCI, Amazon AWS, and Microsoft Azure. This year […]

Congratulations, library legend! If you’ve made it this far, you already know how to select rows, join tables, and summarize data in MySQL. You might even feel like the database’s resident Sherlock Holmes, unearthing facts with dazzling efficiency. But what happens when your digital library comes alive, and your once-tidy student and book tables start bursting at the digital […]

This blog post introduces WebAssembly (Wasm) support in MySQL Heatwave! For the first time, you can bring high-performance, portable code, compiled from Rust, C++, and many more languages, directly to your MySQL data, unlocking a new universe of speed, flexibility, and innovation.

MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse enables queries on file formats like Parquet, Avro, ND-JSON and CSV in an object store. This blog introduces support for the Delta Lake table format, thereby enabling ACID-compliant applications on data in the object store.

This blog is focused on Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP is an open standard enabling seamless integration between applications powered by large language models (LLMs) and external data sources and/or tools. The MySQL HeatWave MCP Server provides a collection of specialized tools that help you leverage the full capabilities of both MySQL HeatWave and MySQL AI.

This blog explains Hybrid Search capabilities within MySQL HeatWave, describing how it combines the strengths of keyword-based (BM25) and semantic (embedding) search. It explains the benefits for advanced information retrieval and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, highlighting how hybrid search supports complex business scenarios that require both contextual understanding and exact match capabilities.

Welcome back, library explorer! By now, you’ve learned how to select data with SELECT, peek at your digital shelves, and even master the art of paging through a crowded student register using LIMIT and OFFSET. But what if you want answers to those big questions, like “How many student records have I collected?” or “What’s the earliest book checked […]

Welcome back, library explorer! Now that you’ve mastered the art of keys and relationships in your MySQL adventure, you’re ready for the next plot twist: discovering how data in one table connects to data in another. If you’ve ever wished your database could gossip between its tables—exchanging juicy details about students, books, and more—today’s the […]