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DB-Engines has released the ranking climbers for September 2026, with SQL Server, MySQL, and DynamoDB leading the increase in database popularity.
An account of a MySQL upgrade that resulted in data inconsistency due to AUTO_INCREMENT behavior during replication, with insights on binlog formats affecting table references.
Shopify engineering describes replacing Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations, using MySQL's SKIP LOCKED feature to achieve high-throughput scaling during peak traffic and eliminate consistency issues between separate systems.
A PlanetScale engineering post analyzes a MySQL outage caused by a long-running transaction and high concurrency, explaining how parallelism can degrade throughput and how Vitess's transaction pool handled (and amplified) the issue.
Oracle announces a new era for MySQL, moving previously commercial features into the Community Edition and introducing a governance model to rebuild community trust, with the release of MySQL 9.7.0 LTS.
DeepSQL is a self-hostable AI DBA agent that monitors, optimizes, and manages Postgres and MySQL databases, promising cost reduction and performance improvements.
Yann LeCun defends open source by listing major projects like Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PyTorch, questioning the idea that releasing them was 'dumping'.
wp2shell bypasses two MySQL limitations for WordPress exploitation: it requires no multi_query (uses UNION SELECT) and no FILE permission (uses WordPress's own code to create users).
PlanetScale explains how to scale a relational database from a single server to 768 servers using database sharding, addressing bottlenecks like write limits and resource contention.
Freno is an open-source, cooperative throttler service from GitHub that limits writes to MySQL clusters based on replication lag, using Raft for high availability.
This article discusses common pitfalls in database partitioning, particularly the mistake of partitioning by a date column that forces queries to include a date filter. It proposes partitioning by the primary key instead and using a background service to manage partition boundaries, thus avoiding the need to modify application code.
SQL Joiner is a visual SQL query builder for MySQL that lets you build SELECT queries by dragging tables onto a canvas, with support for joins, subqueries, and importing existing SQL.
This post compares write-heavy sysbench performance of modern PostgreSQL (versions 15-19) and MySQL 8.4 on a large server, finding that InnoDB generally outperforms PostgreSQL on write throughput and shows less variation.
Maple service map now displays important stats and metrics for various databases including Redis, Postgres, Clickhouse, and MySQL.
A technical walkthrough of solving a concurrent device registration race condition without adding new infrastructure like Redis, using database-level locking and creative schema handling.
Tabularis is an open-source, cross-platform modern database client that supports PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, and SQLite, with built-in AI, MCP, and Notebook, and supports plugin extensions. Designed for developers.