MySQL Community Governance Model Now Available: Strengthening Open Collaboration Across the MySQL Community

Oracle today announced the availability of the MySQL Community Governance Model, providing a clear framework for how community collaboration, contribution review, and project decision-making are organized across the MySQL ecosystem. The governance model is designed to make participation more transparent for contributors, users, and community members while reinforcing MySQL’s continued commitment to open innovation and collaboration.

Posted on: 25 June 2026 | 12:07 pm

MySQL 9.7.0 LTS Now Available: Expanded Community Capabilities and Dynamic Data Masking for Enterprise

Oracle today announced the availability of MySQL 9.7.0 LTS, establishing the new 9.7.x Long-Term Support release line. This release expands MySQL Community Edition with significant new capabilities across replication observability, high availability behavior, telemetry, JSON-relational development, and query optimization, while also introducing Dynamic Data Masking in MySQL Enterprise Edition. Read the blog to learn more about what is new in MySQL 9.7.0 LTS and how this release reflects MySQL’s continued focus on delivering more innovation to the community.

Posted on: 21 April 2026 | 11:46 am

HeatWave Innovation Rolls on with New Generative AI and Multicloud Capabilities

Oracle today announced new HeatWave capabilities, including innovations to help organizations more easily and securely take advantage of generative AI both in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Posted on: 18 September 2024 | 6:35 am

Oracle Announces Industry First In-Database LLMs and an Automated In-Database Vector Store with HeatWave GenAI

Oracle today announced the general availability of HeatWave GenAI, which includes the industry’s first in-database large language models (LLMs), an automated in-database vector store, scale-out vector processing, and the ability to have contextual conversations in natural language informed by unstructured content.

Posted on: 26 June 2024 | 11:00 am

Oracle Continues MySQL HeatWave Innovation with Vector Store and New Generative AI Capabilities

Oracle today announced significant enhancements to MySQL HeatWave, including support for vector store, generative AI, new in-database machine learning features, MySQL Autopilot enhancements, new HeatWave Lakehouse capabilities, support for JavaScript, acceleration of JSON queries, and support for new analytic operators. The vector store will enable customers to leverage the power of large language models (LLMs) with their proprietary data to get answers that are more accurate than using models which have been trained on public data only.

Posted on: 20 September 2023 | 1:15 pm

Oracle Announces the General Availability of MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse

Oracle today announced the general availability of MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse, delivering an industry first by enabling customers to query data in object storage as fast as querying data inside the database. MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse supports a variety of object store file formats such as CSV, Parquet, and export files from other databases, and can combine object storage file data and MySQL database transactional data together in the same query.

Posted on: 20 July 2023 | 9:17 am

Oracle Announces MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse

Oracle today announced MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse, enabling customers to process and query hundreds of terabytes of data in object store in a variety of file formats, such as CSV and Parquet, as well as Aurora and Redshift backups. MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse delivers 17X faster query performance vs. Snowflake and 6X faster than Redshift on 400 TB workload.

Posted on: 19 October 2022 | 5:00 pm

Oracle Announces MySQL HeatWave on AWS

Oracle today announced that MySQL HeatWave is available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). MySQL HeatWave is the only service that combines OLTP, analytics, machine learning, and machine learning-based automation within a single MySQL database. MySQL HeatWave delivers 7X better price performance compared to Amazon Redshift and 10X better than Snowflake, 25X faster than Redshift ML, and up to 10X higher throughput than Aurora.

Posted on: 12 September 2022 | 5:10 pm

Oracle Announces MySQL HeatWave ML— the Easiest, Fastest, and Least Expensive Way to Add Powerful Machine Learning Capabilities

Oracle today announced that Oracle MySQL HeatWave now supports in-database machine learning (ML) in addition to the previously available transaction processing and analytics—the only MySQL cloud database service to do so. MySQL HeatWave ML fully automates the ML lifecycle and stores all trained models inside the MySQL database, eliminating the need to move data or the model to a machine learning tool or service. HeatWave ML fully automates model training, inference, and explanation HeatWave ML is 25 times faster than Amazon Redshift ML at one percent of the cost

Posted on: 29 March 2022 | 11:30 am

Oracle Announces MySQL Autopilot for MySQL HeatWave Service

Oracle today announced availability of MySQL Autopilot, a new component of MySQL HeatWave service, the in-memory query acceleration engine for MySQL Database Service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). MySQL Autopilot delivers nine new machine learning-powered automation capabilities, further improving the performance and scalability of the MySQL Heatwave Service MySQL HeatWave can now deliver 35X better price/performance compared to Snowflake and 13X better compared to Amazon Redshift with AQUA on industry standard TPC-H benchmark Tetris.co, Red3i, and FAN Communications migrated from Amazon Aurora to MySQL HeatWave and reported up to 10X performance improvements at less than half the cost

Posted on: 20 August 2021 | 5:14 pm