MySQL Hypergraph Optimizer
During the last MySQL & HeatWave Summit, Wim Coekaerts announced that a new optimizer is available and is already enabled in MySQL HeatWave. Let’s have a quick look at it and how to use it. The first step is to…
MEM is dead, long live Oracle Database Management
MySQL Enterprise Monitor, aka MEM, retired in January 2025, after almost 20 years of exemplary service! What’s next? Of course, plenty of alternatives exist, open source, proprietary, and on the cloud. For MySQL customers, we provide two alternatives: This post…
A quick look at MySQL EE, free for developers
MySQL provides the MySQL Community Edition, the Open-Source version. In addition, there is the Enterprise Edition for our Commercial customers and MySQL HeatWave, our managed database service (DBaaS) on the cloud (OCI, AWS, etc.). But do you know developers can…
MySQL 9.3! Thank you for your contributions!
Before the MySQL & HeatWave Summit, we released MySQL 9.3, the latest Innovation Release. The event was terrific, and I had the chance to meet some of the MySQL contributors. As usual, we released bug fixes for 8.0 and 8.4…
sysbench linked to latest libmysql (from MySQL 9.3)
If you are testing MySQL with sysbench, here is a RPM version for Fedora 31 and OL 8 & 9 linked with the last libmysql (libmysqlclient.so.24) from MySQL 9.3. This version of sysbench is from the latest master branch in…
MySQL HeatWave as Vector Store and more
MySQL HeatWave integrates GenAI capabilities into MySQL on OCI. We have demonstrated how HeatWave GenAI can leverage RAG’s capability to utilize ingested documents (unstructured data) in LakeHouse and generate responses to specific questions or chats. See: The common theme here…
Multicloud: replicating from HeatWave MySQL on AWS to OCI
In the previous post, we saw how to deploy MySQL HeatWave on Amazon. Multicloud refers to the coordinated use of cloud services from multiple providers. In addition to our previous post, where we deployed MySQL HeatWave on Amazon, we will…
Multicloud: deploying a MySQL HeatWave instance on AWS
Multicloud is a cloud adoption strategy that utilizes services from multiple cloud providers rather than relying on just one. This approach enables organizations to take advantage of the best services for specific tasks, enhances resilience, and helps reduce costs. Additionally,…
MySQL 9.2 ! Thank you for your contributions!
At the beginning of the year, we released MySQL 9.2, the latest Innovation Release. Sorry for the delay, but I was busy with the preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days and FOSDEM MySQL Belgium Days. Of course, we released bug fixes for…
MySQL Rockstars 2024
This post was initially published on Oracle’s blog; this is a slightly modified version The MySQL Rockstars 2024 award ceremony was a highlight of the MySQL Belgian Days 2025, held on January 30th and 31st at the ICAB Incubator in…
Highlights from preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days 2025
This post was initially published on Oracle’s blog; this is a slightly modified version. The preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days 2025, held on January 30th and 31st at the ICAB Incubator in Brussels, was a remarkable gathering of MySQL enthusiasts, developers,…
1995-2025: 30 years!
This post was initially published on Oracle’s blog; this is a slightly modified version. As many of you already know, MySQL is turning 30 this year! The official date is May 23. During the entire calendar year, we will celebrate…
