Oracle has continued to live up to its commitment to making MySQL better. This has empowered the MySQL engineering division to reach higher and further with each new release. The newest version, MySQL 8, contains more new features and enhancements than any other release. As a result, MySQL continues to be the world’s most popular open source database system.
To fully understand the significance of the MySQL 8 release, let us consider that while past releases of MySQL have continued to improve the product, the releases tended to contain a few new features with emphasis on improving the more popular ...