MySQL Engineering Blogs
Connection Management in Database Jones
How does an application configure its database connection? I find this to be a pretty interesting question. As the application moves from a developer’s workstation to a test harness, then to staging, and on to production, the database connection properties can change each time. …
MySQL 8.0 Labs: JSON aggregation functions
In MySQL 5.7 we introduced JSON functionality into the MySQL Server. This work included the introduction of a JSON data type, virtual columns and a set of approximately 20 SQL functions that allow you to manipulate and search JSON data on the server side.…
Zooming-in on Group Replication performance
A previous blog post exposed the main factors affecting Group Replication performance, which was followed by another that showed the scalability of both single-master and multi-master throughput. In this post we return with more “inside information” that may be useful for optimizing the...
MySQL 8.0: Scaling and Performance of INFORMATION_SCHEMA
Overview
MySQL 8.0 comes with the new design of INFORMATION_SCHEMA subsystem. The blog MySQL 8.0: Improvements to Information_schema provides an overview of the improvements we made. This blog focuses mainly to demonstrate performance of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA in MySQL 8.0, giving us an idea on the...
Order from Chaos: Member Coordination in Group Replication
We are very excited about the next release of MySQL Group Replication 0.9.0 in MySQL 5.7.15 and the great work that has been done to improve its stability. Release after release, MySQL Group Replication becomes more stable and more user-friendly and has reached a maturity level that made us...
MySQL 8.0: Testing Improvements
The first DMR of MySQL 8 was recently released. While a DMR (or Developer Milestone Release) is not yet a GA product, it does come with our commitment that each feature has been tested and qualified for inclusion.
In MySQL 8.0 we have made additional improvements to the MySQL test framework (MTR)...
MySQL Group Replication: Extended Technical Documentation
A new Group Replication plugin labs release has came out, a little over a week ago. Exciting news! 😉 This shows that the team has been working hard to shape up the plugin so that it meets the required feature set, performance and quality standards to be released as GA.…
MySQL Community Server
New Releases 
- Connector/Python 2.1
(2.1.4 GA) - MySQL for Visual Studio 2.0
(2.0.4 m3) - Connector/J 5.1
(5.1.40 GA) - Connector/Python 2.2
(2.2.1 m2) - MySQL Community Server 8.0
(8.0.0 dmr)
MySQL Quickpoll
What InnoDB specific options are you most eager to see made dynamic?
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