One of the best things about MySQL has always been its community. Whether you’re building applications, running production databases, contributing code, creating tools, writing documentation, answering questions, or simply sharing feedback, you’ve helped make MySQL what it is today. In this discussion we shared updates on where we are today and had a discussion on […]

When we introduced MySQL Studio, the goal was to bring the common parts of database development and analysis into one OCI workspace: SQL authoring, schema exploration, results visualization, and Ask Studio. The next step is making that workspace more useful during the everyday flow of MySQL work. For many MySQL developers, DBAs, and application teams, […]

The MySQL Community team will be active across conferences, user group meetups, open source events, and regional community activities during the summer months. Whether you would like to hear about the latest MySQL 9.7 updates, meet the MySQL team, join a user group meetup, or connect with the broader open source and developer community, here […]

Overview

Servers Tested:

• MySQL 9.7.0 (PGO-enabled build released by Oracle)
• MySQL 9.7.0 Non-PGO (built without Profile-Guided Optimization — see BUILD.md)

Tier Configurations:

• Tier 2G: 2GB InnoDB buffer pool
• Tier 12G: 12GB InnoDB buffer pool
• Tier 32G: 32GB InnoDB buffer pool

View Results

Interactive Reports

The benchmark reports are available as interactive HTML pages at:

https://percona-lab-results.github.io/2026-pgo/index.html

Performance …

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 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 …

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 […]