- Oracle outlines ‘three-pronged strategy’ to refocus attention on MySQL
- There is a clear emphasis on community engagement and building trust.
- The MySQL roadmap should also be available for viewing
Frédéric Descamps, Oracle MySQL community manager, has promised a “decisive new approach” to MySQL in response to concerns raised by the open source community.
Users have raised concerns about reduced validation activity, slow innovation and lack of transparency, with founder Michael Widenius also previously saying he was heartbroken by engineering job cuts.
But to mark MySQL’s 30th anniversary, Oracle is responding to criticism with a “reinvigorated approach to community collaboration and innovation.”
Oracle promises ‘reinvigorated’ approach to MySQL
Descamps described MySQL as “one of the most widely used open source databases in the world”, praising its “active and passionate community”. However, the community is unhappy with certain elements under MySQL’s current leadership.
Oracle effectively took ownership of MySQL when it acquired its parent company for $7.4 billion in 2010.
Looking ahead, Oracle has outlined a “three-pronged strategy” that includes moving previously commercial-only features to the Community Edition to drive innovation, expanding the ecosystem “by broadening tools, frameworks, and connectors,” and improving transparency by publishing a development roadmap, sharing workloads and bug reports, and engaging more directly with the community.
PGO-optimized community binaries, new AI-driven vector functions, hypergraph optimizer, and JSON duality improvements are on the cards, with Oracle targeting April for its first round of updates to regain community trust.
Oracle also plans to collaborate with popular open source projects such as WordPress and Linux communities and distributions including Ubuntu/Canonical.
The news came at the pre-FOSDEM Belgian MySQL Days in Brussels, about a month after Oracle shared details of MySQL 9.6, which promises to solve long-standing challenges in change tracking, binary log replication and data consistency.
To keep the community engaged, Oracle promises to bring more content to social media, YouTube, and podcasts.
“Looking forward to the years to come, we are committed to implementing this vision,” Descamps wrote.
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