MySQL 8.0 – Announcing GA of the MySQL Document Store

MySQL 8.0 – Announcing GA of the MySQL Document Store

In this blog I’ll explain the big wins that come with the MySQL Document Store in the MySQL 8.0 GA.

Basically

SQL + NOSQL
= Winning Combination
= Relational + Document Store + Hybrid
= Big Win For Devs
= Big Win for DBAs
= Big Win for Data Analysts
= Big Win for LOB owners

First, let’s start by considering some modern software facts

• Move faster, change rapidly
• Time to market is critical
• Rapid prototyping, iterate fast and frequently
• Relational Models ask for schema up front
• Potentially saving time later
• Less variation, less code for edge cases
• Easy to run in-depth analytics
• Document Models do not ask for a schema
• Saves time up front
• Often adds operational costs in the long term
• Getting Analytics from the data can be way more work
• Most popular NoSQL database use similar data structures to relational databases (B+TREE)
• No inherent scalability advantages
  Yet behind on key functionality
• Standing up multiple database technologies adds complexity for operations teams

Customers continually tell us they want to simplify their data infrastructure.…

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