MySQL 9.0 released

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Original link: What’s new in MySQL 9.0 / InfoWorld.

New features include:

• a new vector datatype
• support for old SHA-1 and old password formats are being removed
• JavaScript SP & UDF (in Enterprise Edition only - so not in Community Edition!)

A relative short list of changes. But Oracle supposedly got heavily criticised when 8.0 was released for having too many new features.

Supporting other languages than SQL for SP and UDF are actually common. But JavaScript is an unusual choice. Oracle DB supports Java and C#/VB.NET (Windows only). IBM DB2 supports Java. Sybase ASE supports Java. MS SQLServer supports C#/VB.NET. PostgreSQL supports Tcl, Perl and Python.

(PostgreSQL has third party support for Java and JavaScript)

Guess MySQL is more like PostgreSQL in this regard!

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