Operational Database Management Systems
“Next year, we will be celebrating 10 years of the community“ Q1. Looking at the themes presented at MySQL BR Conf 2025—from high availability implementations to modern data architectures and AI integration—what do these...
Q1. As a core contributor to Powertools for AWS Lambda, how do you balance the trade-offs between feature richness and cold start performance? Cold start performance is always top of mind when we’re building...
Q1. In the open source world, code contributions take the spotlight. What is the role of non-code contributors and why is it important? In the open source world, while code contributions are highly visible,...
“One of the key differences between PostgreSQL and most other Open Source databases is that PostgreSQL is an Open Source project, not an Open Source product.” Q1. What are some of the most anticipated...
Q1. Congratulations for your title of MySQL Legend 2024. What is your role now that you are a Legend and how do you support the MySQL community? I have been involved with the MySQL...
Q1. What is your role at Oracle? I am a Developer advocate for MySQL. Some of my duties include producing content through blog posts and short form videos. I also get to speak at...
This October release is the third LTS release and second Innovation release since MySQL announced our move to a new LTS/Innovation release model. For more info click here. Also you can read LEFRED blog...
Q1. You just announced that the MySQL Belgian Days 2025 event will be held before FOSDEM. What is FOSDEM? And why is it relevant to the MySQL Community? FOSDEM is a free event for software...
by Mark Matthews, Architect, HeatWave Service on OCI HeatWave MySQL is a robust and time-tested ACID compliant database which is ideal for transactional processing, mixed workloads, real-time analytics, and machine learning where the data...
By Scott Stroz, MySQL Developer Advocate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has a very robust always-free tier. Oracle recently announced that HeatWave MySQL will now be part of that offering. As part of the always-free tier, we can...