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February 17, 2023

February 16, 2023

Faster MySQL with HTTP/3

Join PlanetScale’s Lead Infrastructure Engineer for Edge connectivity for an explainer on our findings regarding HTTP/3 and the MySQL protocol.

February 14, 2023

February 13, 2023

Vitess at FOSDEM 2023

Some of the Vitess maintainers traveled to Brussels, Belgium to attend and speak at pre-FOSDEM MySQL Days and at FOSDEM. pre-FOSDEM MySQL Days # When: Feb 2-3 Who: Deepthi Sigireddi, Harshit Gangal, Shlomi Noach What: VTOrc - How Vitess achieves consensus using MySQL Replication by Deepthi Highlights # There were a lot of questions about how Vitess handles various failure scenarios. We had good conversations with both the MySQL team and MySQL/Vitess community users.

February 09, 2023

February 08, 2023

February 07, 2023

Five Decades of Database Research

Since 1975, over 24 thousand articles have have been published in major database venues (SIGMOD, VLDB/PVLDB, ICDE, EDBT, CIDR, TODS, VLDB Journal, TKDE). The number of papers per year is rising:

Over time, the topics change. Looking at the percentage of keywords appearing in paper titles (in that particular year), we can see interesting trends: