Announcing Vitess 23.0.0 # We’re excited to release Vitess 23.0.0 — the latest major version of Vitess — bringing new defaults, better operational tooling, and refined metrics. This release builds on the strong foundation of version 22 and is designed to make deployment and observability smoother, while continuing to scale MySQL workloads horizontally with confidence. ✅ Why This Release Matters # For production users of Vitess, this release is meaningful in several ways:

Subtitle: Schema design, embedding workflows, hybrid search, and performance tradeoffs explained.

Quick Recap from Part 1

In Part 1, we introduced the MyVector plugin — a native extension that brings vector embeddings and HNSW-based approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search into MySQL. We covered how MyVector supports scoped queries (e.g., WHERE user_id = X) to ensure that semantic search remains relevant, performant, and secure in real-world multi-tenant applications.

Now in Part 2, we move from concept to implementation:

• How to store and index embeddings
• How to design embedding workflows
• How hybrid (vector + keyword) search works
• How HNSW compares to brute-force search
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MySQL 9.5 has been released, here is a list of the contributions we included in it. Thank you to all contributors!

On October 10th, 2025, we released MySQL 9.5, the latest Innovation Release. As usual, we released bug fixes for 8.0 and 8.4 LTS, but this post focuses on the newest release. In this release, we can see contributions related to Connector J and Connector Net, as well as to different server categories. Connector / J […]

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Simplify Real-Time Analytics with MySQL HeatWave Auto-Refresh Materialized Views

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