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SurrealDB 4.0 (November 3) adds PostgreSQL and MySQL SQL dialects that its blog calls a defined subset; the vendor advises existing 3.x users to wait for 4.1, and its 22x indexed-query gain is projected.

Percona Server for MySQL 9.7.2-2 ships DISTANCE() and VECTOR_DISTANCE(), letting developers rank embeddings by similarity directly in SQL across five distance metrics.

Etsy has finished migrating its proprietary 1,000-shard MySQL infrastructure to Vitess after five years, 2,500 pull requests, and 6,000 query rewrites, eliminating a single point of failure while preserving its existing data layout through custom vindexes.

Oracle ends security patches for MySQL 8.0 on April 30, leaving 58 percent of monitored instances on an unsupported version with no fix path for new vulnerabilities.

A community revolt over commit drought, staff cuts, and opaque development is forcing Oracle to rethink its stewardship of the world's most deployed open source database.