lefred blog: tribulations of a MySQL Evangelist

One ecosystem, many projects, shared challenges. Join us in Brussels on Sunday, January 31, 2027, for the M-Ecosystem Devroom at FOSDEM! Building on the tradition of the MariaDB, MySQL & Friends Devroom, this new chapter expands its scope and ambition, bringing together developers and contributors from across the open-source database ecosystem to share knowledge, tackle […]

A few days ago, I came across an interesting post by Hussain Patel on LinkedIn about HNSW index implementation differences in every vector databases. I was very surprised not to see MariaDB in the list. One day later, AskDBA (Alkin Tezuysal) published a benchmark article comparing vector search using MyVector on MySQL with the native […]