The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB.

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Oracle has promised a "decisive new approach" to MySQL, the popular open source database it owns, following growing criticism of its approach and the prospect of a significant fork in the code. In a ...

For now, it does not support navigation properties, complex types, owned types, shadow properties, or inheritance, but they are in the roadmap.

VillageSQL is the innovation platform for MySQL and a new path for MySQL in the agentic AI era. VillageSQL Server is an open-source tracking fork of MySQL 8.4.6 LTS that introduces the VillageSQL ...