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News, announcements, and updates from OurSQL Foundation.

Interview

“MySQL Is Still the Backbone”: Zongzhi Chen on Hot Rows, PolarDB, and the Agent Era

Zongzhi Chen leads the cloud RDS team at Alibaba Cloud. He was a core member of the team that shipped the first release of PolarDB, created …

Maria Nesterova Oct 14, 2026 14 min read

Webinar

Time Travel for MySQL: Recovering One Row Shouldn't Take All Night

I have been working with databases for almost 20 years, ten of them at Percona. To be honest, a lot of that time was not really …

Daniel Guzmán Burgos Oct 8, 2026 3 min read

Newsletter

Newsletter #1: What Happened in September 2026

Four months after launch, the OurSQL Foundation has run its first booth, opened its map of the MySQL ecosystem, and scheduled its first …

Maria Nesterova Sep 30, 2026 4 min read

Recap

What We Learned From the First MySQL Ecosystem Spotlight

Quick test: name five tools in the MySQL ecosystem that are not MySQL itself. Most people stop at two.

That’s the real problem. MySQL …

Maria Nesterova Sep 16, 2026 3 min read

Announcement

Introducing the OurSQL Foundation

Earlier this year, we held two MySQL Summits where we discussed concerns that the MySQL ecosystem has stalled and that MySQL is no longer …

Vadim Tkachenko Sep 2, 2026 3 min read