A developer migrated mpazari.com, a Turkish motorcycle classifieds site, from MySQL 8 to PostgreSQL 12 with three minutes of downtime. After the migration, server load dropped significantly from ~1.5 to ~0.3-0.5, suggesting PostgreSQL uses considerably less server capacity for this particular application despite identical hardware, indexes, and workload.
A native MySQL plugin that filters rows using natural-language conditions powered by TypeSafe Jev. It enables semantic text comparison through functions like AILIKE, allowing queries to match rows based on meaning rather than exact phrases. The preview release requires a TypeSafe API key and sends evaluated values to TypeSafe for processing.
A retrospective on Caesar IV, a 2006 city-building game, exploring the author's childhood memories and investigating the game's defunct online leaderboard system. The author discovered the multiplayer feature was simply a MySQL database accepting raw SQL queries from the game client, and describes efforts to restore online functionality after Activision Blizzard shut down the servers.
VillageSQL has released a new vsql-duckdb extension that embeds DuckDB inside MySQL, enabling users to run analytical queries on data formats like Parquet and join results with MySQL data without leaving their existing database connection. The extension provides three functions: duckdb_scalar() for single values, duckdb_query() for JSON results, and duckdb_status() for version information.
Dalibo announces PostgreSQL Migrator 1.0, a stable tool for converting databases from Oracle and MySQL to PostgreSQL. The release features high-performance migration using COPY statements, an intelligent user interface for DBAs, and support for roles, schemas, tables, indexes, and data types, with throughput 10 times higher than free alternatives.
DuckDB 2.0 enables whole-query pushdown through ADBC, allowing remote PostgreSQL and MySQL queries to execute entirely on the source database rather than transferring millions of rows for local processing. This optimization achieves 10–11× speedups by reducing data transfer by 50,000× and cutting execution time by 90–91% in benchmark tests.