MySQL
The relational server that ran the early web, now Oracle-stewarded and InnoDB-based.
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MySQL brand colours
Extracted from the artwork and ranked by how much of the mark each covers — not from a brand book, so treat them as observed rather than official.
What MySQL is
MySQL is a thread-per-connection relational server whose default InnoDB engine gives clustered primary-key storage, MVCC via undo logs and mature binary-log replication. Oracle ships it under GPLv2 with a commercial licence for redistribution, on an LTS plus innovation-release cadence. Its strengths are operational: online DDL on very large tables and replication topologies that have been run at extreme scale for two decades.
Recent changes
- 2026-04-30MySQL 8.0 leaves premier support
Oracle's lifetime support policy moves 8.0 out of premier support eight years after GA, leaving 8.4 as the supported LTS line and the 9.x innovation releases as the fast lane. Teams still on 8.0 now have a scheduled upgrade rather than an optional one.
- 2025-06-04MariaDB 11.8 LTS ships vector search in the community server
A VECTOR column type with an approximate nearest-neighbour index reaches GA in a mainstream open-source relational engine, without an enterprise tier. It landed ahead of MySQL, whose 9.x VECTOR type still leans on HeatWave for approximate indexing, and it narrows one of pgvector's few remaining structural advantages.