VillageSQL

The new version of @hammerdb.bsky.social is live with @villagesql.com support! Benchmark away! www.hammerdb.com/download.html

For those how missed it, Dan's talk at #MySQL BR conference is live! villagesql.com/blog/mysql-b...

Excited to open source our vector/similarity search benchmarking tool that supports VillageSQL, @mariadb.bsky.social , and #PostgreSQL + pg-vector. This is for iterative development of vector and verify behavior. villagesql.com/blog/vector-...

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New version of VillageSQL Server is out (0.0.7)! Lots of improvements to play with: 1. Custom indexes! 2. CLONE has extra checks 3. Per-connections settings in extensions 4. Valgrind and ThreadSanitizer checks for server and extensions villagesql-blog.ghost.io/007/

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We collected all of our external talks and published them in one place. Check them out! villagesql.com/talks #MySQL #Percona #CMU

Check out MySQL BR Conf with a talk from @villagesql.com!

New Extension Alert! 🚨 Add an MCP server to you MySQL instance with streamable HTTP and authentication against the database. villagesql.com/blog/mcp/ #MCP #MYSQL

Our keynote from Percona Live EU is now live on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVkG... #MySQL #PostgreSQL

Lots of #MySQL industry news! So much going on and new events, including @fosdem.org '27 dates. villagesql.com/blog/village...

Very excited to @duckdb.org running in #MySQL as an extension! Query your parquet data in S3 and join with your operational data. villagesql.com/blog/duckdb/ #DuckDB #MySQL #S3 #Parquet

Following our keynote at Day 2 of #PerconaLive in Amsterdam, we wrote up a summary of our preview of #vector search in #MySQL 8.4 with #HNSW indexes. Feedback welcome! villagesql.com/blog/vector-...

We are featured on the new Data Agents for #ChatGPT Work landing page. Check out our AI Skills for #MySQL openai.com/business/sol...

#MySQL Extension update - Adding advanced cryptographic functions to MySQL (Password hashing, SHA2) villagesql.com/blog/crypto/

Exciting to see #MySQL climbing again!

🐬 MySQL NYC: Open Innovation Meets AI Join us on Sept 16, 6-8pm at the Chrysler Building for a dive into MySQL for AI, and MySQL's path to open innovation. Pizza included! RSVP: meetup.com/mysql-nyc-co... #mysql #opensource #meetup #nyc

New York City + MySQL = Two of our favorite things. Excited to see NYC #MySQL Meetup is back! Check it out and meet some Villagers who will be in attendance. www.meetup.com/mysql-nyc-co...

Hot new version of VillageSQL Server! v0.0.6 is out and now comes in 3 flavors: 1) #MySQL Server 8.4.11 2) @percona.bsky.social Server 8.4.10 3) MySQL Server 9.7.2 Enjoy! Blog post - villagesql.com/blog/006/ #MySQL #Percona

Come visit our booth and see @deesix.com speak at @percona.bsky.social Live EU '26 in Amsterdam. Get 25% OFF your registration with our code - PERCONALIVESPEAKER See you there! #perconalivespeaker #MySQL #PostgreSQL

We wrote up how VillageSQL works with #MySQL component services inside extensions. As #Oracle , #Google, and #AWS add component services to future versions of #MySQL, authors will be able to use them build new extensions. Very cool. villagesql.com/blog/mysql-s...

Come to the booth to say hello!

Last week, I published two #MySQL Replication blog posts: Understanding "fatal error 1236", and GTID Crash Safety improvement in 8.0.17. Both subjects lack clear documentation, hence the interest of blogging about them. Link to the 2nd post in the 1st. jfg-mysql.blogspot.com/2026/08/unde...

Can't wait to see everyone in Amsterdam at @percona.bsky.social Live!

Hot new version of VillageSQL Server! We just launched 0.0.5 with lots of new functionality: 1. Extension Upgrades 2. Extension version pinning 3. INFORMATION_SCHEMA.EXTENSIONS improvements 5. 4 new extensions https://villagesql.com/blog/005/ #MySQL #VillageSQL

Village News for July 1st is live! Big changes for #MySQL in the last week. https://villagesql-blog.ghost.io/village-news-village-news-mysql-news-events-1-july-2026/ #MySQL #VillageSQL

Given questions we have gotten about the new MySQL governance, we wanted to publish our thoughts. MySQL's New Governance Model: Two steps forward, one step to the side, and one step backwards villagesql.com/blog/mysql-g... #MySQL #Oracle

Welcome to the team! Happy to add some 🪄 to the village.

Adding Fuzzy String Search to MySQL. New extensions to enable fuzzy matching. https://villagesql.com/blog/fuzzy-string/ #MySQL #VillageSQL

Village News with #MySQL news and database-specific events. Check it out! villagesql.com/blog/village...

Village News is out! Get hot fresh updates on MySQL news and events! https://villagesql.com/blog/village-news-5-june-2026/ #MySQL #PostgreSQL #VillageSQL

One of our design philosophies - Happy Path, Escape Hatch, and the Space Between Learn about how we think about extensibility and how it impacts our users. https://villagesql.com/blog/escape-hatch/ #MySQL

Rust Developers - Now you can extend MySQL with extensions written in Rust! If you are used to pgx/pgrx for PostgreSQL, now you can port those extensions to MySQL/VillageSQL. https://villagesql.com/blog/rust/ #MySQL #VillageSQL #PostgreSQL #Rust #pgrx

Exciting to see people building cool stuff with VillageSQL. Go Max! Hey Database! Go Fine Tune Yourself https://maxdemarzi.com/2026/05/29/hey-database-go-fine-tune-yourself/ #VillageSQL #MySQL #AI

Bringing #MySQL into the Agentic era by porting #PostgreSQL extensions to MySQL. We launched VillageSQL Skills to help anyone make an extension for MySQL. Support for @anthropic.com Claude Code, #Gemini CLI, agy, OpenAI #Codex, and @awscloud.bsky.social Kiro. villagesql.com/blog/extensi...

VillageSQL Server 0.0.4 is now available (and marked as the stable release for installs). Check it out! villagesql.com/blog/004/ #MySQL

Yeah! So excited to see everyone at Percona Live next week in Mountain View. Proud to be a Platinum Sponsor. Get 75% off with code 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐀𝟕𝟓!

The whole team will be in California (Mountain View) next week for the following events! Oracle #MySQL Contributor Summit (May 26) #SouthBaySystems Meetup (thanks @alexmillerdb.bsky.social ) @percona.bsky.social Live Conference (May 27-29) villagesql.com/blog/may-eve... Come say hello!

Excited to announce that VillageSQL will be speaking at South Bay Systems. Our co-founder, Steve Schirripa, will be speaking about what we learned extending #MySQL, a 30 year old codebase. Sign up to attend - https://luma.com/3j9twotu?tk=FDqNGL #MySQL #VillageSQL #SouthBaySystem #Databases

This week's edition of the Village News is out! Summary of key news in #MySQL world and upcoming events. Check it out! #MySQL #Database #OpenSource

We made it! We finally got an entry on @db-engines.bsky.social for VillageSQL, our fork of #MySQL. db-engines.com/en/system/Vi...

A write up of our AI extension for #MySQL that allows inference via cloud or locally on the database server. Check it out! Feedback welcome. villagesql.com/blog/vsql-ai/

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Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Steve Schirripa (MSE'00) will present how @villagesql.bsky.social is injecting new life into MySQL via extensions. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs...

So excited to speak to @db.cs.cmu.edu today!

We are a partnering with @percona.bsky.social to be a Platinum Sponsor for #PerconaLive so get 25% off on us! We look forward to seeing you at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA on May 27-29. Discount Code = PERCONALIVEVIL2625 perconalive.com/2026-usa/ #MySQL #Percona #Oracle

This week's installment of the Village News - a curated overview of #MySQL and database news that you might have missed over the last period. If you want to get these updates, just subscribe to the blog. Enjoy! villagesql.com/blog/village...

Do you have a plan for #MySQL 8.0 EOL this month? We put together a guide for folks that are trying to make decisions about what to do for their MySQL workloads. We hope it's helpful to layout all the options. villagesql.com/blog/mysql-8...