Windows Nano Server is a deployment option of the upcoming Windows Server 2016. It is a “headless” version of Windows Server, pared back to provide the bare essentials necessary to host server / “born in the cloud” applications such as MySQL.…
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Keyring framework
Security these days is bigger than ever. This statement needs no proof. It seems like it is getting easier and easier to get access to ‘secure data’. As system grows it becomes really hard to secure all endpoints. This is why encrypting data is now the hot topic in the database world.…
Ubuntu 16.04 first stable distro with MySQL 5.7

Congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing 16.04 LTS with MySQL 5.7! As far as I know, it’s the first stable release of a Linux distro that contains MySQL 5.7. Fedora and openSUSE also have MySQL 5.7, but not yet in a stable release.…
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On behalf of the entire team, I would like to thank you for stopping by our “meet the MySQL engineering team” BOF held Tuesday night.…
MySQL 5.7.12 – MySQL Document Store – YouTube Video
Today we are introducing a new MySQL Server feature called MySQL Document Store. Make sure to watch the announcement video on the MySQL YouTube Channel!
Find out more by looking into the following documents.
- Using MySQL as a Document Store – Manual
- X DevAPI – Tutorial for JavaScript
- X DevAPI – Tutorial for Python
- X DevAPI User Guide – A detailed look at the X DevAPI
- MySQL Connector/Node.js X DevAPI Reference
- MySQL Connector/Net – X DevAPI Reference
- MySQL Connector/J – X DevAPI Reference
If you got questions or feedback please feel free to post on the MySQL Forums.…
MySQL 5.7.12 – Part 6: MySQL Document Store – A New Chapter in the MySQL Story
So hopefully you’ve read the first 5 blogs in this 6 part series you should have a good introduction to
• Part 1 – What we heard from the MySQL Community (keep it solid, and innovate faster) and our change to new release model those requirements.…
Meet the MySQL Engineering Team
A number of members of the MySQL Engineering Team will be at Percona Live and the MySQL Innovation Day over the next week or so. Here is where you can find us:
Tuesday 19 April 2016
- The Exciting MySQL 5.7 Replication Enhancements
11:30am: Luis Soares - Introducing the MySQL Document Store
11:30am: Mike Frank, Jan Kneschke, Alfredo Kojima - MySQL Query Optimizer Overview
1:20pm: Olav Sandstå - Innodb 5.7 Features & Highlights
1:20pm: Sunny Bains - Performance schema and sys schema in MySQL 5.7
2:20pm: Mark Leith - A MySQL Sys Schema Deep Dive
3:50pm: Mark Leith - High Availability Using MySQL Group Replication
4:50pm: Luis Soares - Meet the MySQL Engineering Team
6:01pm: Entire Team BOF - Community Dinner @ Pedros
7:00pm: A number of us will be attending
Wednesday 20 April 2016
- MySQL: Combining SQL and NoSQL
9:50am: Keynote by Tomas Ulin - MySQL Performance: Scalability & Benchmarks
3:30pm: Dimitri KRAVTCHUK - What’s New in MySQL
4:30pm: Geir Høydalsvik, co-presented with Simon Mudd (Booking.com)
Thursday 21 April
- Optimizer: What’s New in 5.7 and Sneak Peek at 5.8
11:00am: Manyi Lu - MySQL Document Store: Under the Hood
1:50pm: Alfredo Kojima, Jan Kneschke, Mike Frank - MySQL Performance: Demystified Tuning & Scalability
3:00pm: Dimitri KRAVTCHUK
Monday 25 April
We’ll all be present at the MySQL Innovation Day.…
MySQL 5.7.12 – Part 5: Connector/Node.js
MySQL 5.7.12 – Part 4: A new MySQL Command Line Shell
The classic MySQL command line tool is how most users – developers and administrators – interact with a MySQL server. From administrative tasks to trying out queries, it wouldn’t be far-fetched to call it the face of MySQL.
With a new programming interface built into the MySQL Server, we need to properly support it at the client side in connectors, tools and of course, the command line client.…
MySQL 5.7.12 – Part 3: More Than “Just” SQL?
If you have been following our multi-part blog-post series around MySQL 5.7.12 so far you have heard on term a lot: “X”. So what does X stand for? A very good question, let’s see if Part 3 of the blog-post series on the MySQL Document Store will help you finding more about that.…
