Introduction Oracle has announced significant enhancements to MySQL HeatWave, introducing vector store capabilities and new generative AI features. These updates position MySQL HeatWave as a comprehensive platform that combines traditional database operations with modern AI and machine learning capabilities, all within a single service. What is MySQL HeatWave? MySQL HeatWave is Oracle’s cloud-native database service […]

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Oracle recently announced HeatWave Lakehouse, enabling customers to query data in object storage with record performance vs. Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Databricks, and Google Big Query. Querying the data in object storage is as fast as querying the database, an industry first. With HeatWave Lakehouse, you can now take advantage of HeatWave for non-MySQL workloads as […]

Today, we announced the general availability of MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse and new capabilities in MySQL Autopilot that enable organizations to efficiently query data from object store using standard SQL syntax and without requiring database tuning expertise. Data in object store can be in a variety of file formats like CSV, Parquet or export from databases […]

The new lakehouse service, designed to quickly load and query up to 400TB of data, will compete with offerings from Oracle rivals that have also jumped on the lakehouse concept, including Snowflake, Google, AWS and Microsoft Azure. In an effort to compete with its cloud-services rivals and help enterprises generate more business value out of […]

Abstract This document contains release notes for the changes in each release of MySQL 8.0, up through MySQL 8.0.36. For information about changes in a different MySQL series, see the release notes for that series. For additional MySQL 8.0 documentation, see the MySQL 8.0 Reference Manual, which includes an overview of features added in MySQL […]

At Oracle, we constantly look for ways to improve our products to better fit your needs. We are excited to introduce MySQL Innovation and Long-Term Supported releases, which is an important improvement in the MySQL versioning model. The patch releases of MySQL 5.7 and previous releases were focused on bugfix and security patches. That changed […]

In addition to updating MySQL HeatWave’s AutoML and Autopilot, Oracle will now offer a small shape for the service, targeting customers with smaller volumes of data. Oracle is adding new machine learning features to its data analytics cloud service MySQL HeatWave. MySQL HeatWave combines OLAP (online analytical processing), OLTP (online transaction processing), machine learning, and […]

For MySQL, version numbers are organized as version = X.Y.Z. In Amazon RDS terminology, X.Y denotes the major version, and Z is the minor version number. For Amazon RDS implementations, a version change is considered major if the major version number changes, for example, going from version 5.7 to 8.0. A version change is considered […]

The world’s most popular open-source database got an improvement with the announcement of the improved MySQL 8.0 back in late 2016. Any database-driven web applications rely on MySQL to function properly and perform. Some popular applications include WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and our very own, Ottomatik.Also, popular websites including YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr are some […]