MySQL 1995-2025: 30 years!

MySQL Community 30y at preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days

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1. Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 1
2. Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 2
3. 1995 The rst internal version of MySQL had the working title of UNIREG. MySQL was founded by Michael "Monty" Widenius, David Axmark, and Allan Larsson. The rst version of MySQL appeared on 23 May 1995. Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 3
4. 1998 MySQL AB was founded as the company behind MySQL, providing support, consulting services and commercial licensing. Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 4
5. 2000 MySQL becomes an Open-Source project by adopting the GPL license. This accelerated the adoption of MySQL by the community as the database of choice for web applications. Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 5
6. 2001 MySQL 3.23 released: this version brought signi cant performance improvements, including the introduction of the MyISAM storage engine. 2 million active installations Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 6
7. 2003 MySQL 4.0 released: this version introduced the InnoDB storage engine, which provided ACID compliaance and transactions, making MySQL a viable option for enterprise applications. 4 million active installations Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 7
8. 2005 MySQL 5.0 released with support for stored procedures, triggers, views, and more advanced features, making it more competitive in the database market. Oracle acquires Innobase Oy, the company behind the InnoDB storage engine. Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 8
9. 2008 Sun Microsystems acquires MySQL AB for approximately $1 billion, showing the growing importance of open-source databases in the enterprise environments. Release of MySQL 5.1 with Sun. Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9
10. 2009 Oracle Corporation acquires Sun Microsystems, including MySQL, adding open-source databases to its technical stack and a commitment to MySQL. MySQL 5.4, a preview or development release, with very nice performance improvements thanks to an "improved" InnoDB. Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 10
11. 2010 Release of MySQL 5.5 with Oracle and the rst one with the InnoDB Team! Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 11
12. 2012 MySQL introduced GTID in MySQL 5.6, a feature that simpli es replication. MySQL 5.6 also introduced the Performance Schema, a feature that provides insight into the performance of the MySQL server, helping administrators to optimize and troubleshoot their databases. Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 12
13. 2015 MySQL 5.7 released with signi cant improvements in performance, scalability, and manageability. JSON support, replication and security enhancements further solidi ed MySQL's position as the leading open-source database. Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 13
14. 2018 MySQL 8.0 is GA, a giant leap for SQL (windown functions, CTEs, roles, etc.), Atomic DDLs with Data Dictionary, and much more. MySQL adopts a continuous release model, with new features and improvements. Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 14
15. 2019 MySQL declared DBMS of the year from DB-Engines ranking. Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 15
16. 2020 Release of HeatWave, a fully-managed Oracle Cloud Infrastrucutre service, developed, managed and supported by MySQL team with in memory accelerator, Object Storage, Machine Learning and GenAI capabilities. Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 16
17. 2024 MySQL 9 with VECTOR datatype and release of the rst LTS: MySQL 8.4 MySQL surpasses 2 billion downloads (o cial website, docker pull, package managers and cloud deployments) MySQL #1 DB for development (JetBrains survey) Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 17
18. 2025 MySQL celebrates 30 years of innovation, community, and success. Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 18
19. DB-Engines Open Source Database #1 since 2012 Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 19
20. And you probably know most of them... Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 20
21. many years of MySQL Community Team Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 21
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