VillageSQL – A Fork of MySQL with Extensions

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We built VillageSQL because we love MySQL, but we’ve watched the ecosystem stagnate while PostgreSQL flourished with extensions like pgvector and pg_textsearch. We wanted to give MySQL that same extensibility so teams don’t have to migrate databases just to keep building nowadays. VillageSQL is an open-source, tracking fork of MySQL that is a drop-in replacement and adds a true extension framework.How it works: +It’s a drop-in replacement+We added an interface to load external shared libraries (.so files) as extensions.+You define custom data types and functions (with indexes coming soon) that run natively inside the engine.+We are launching with a few proof-of-concept extensions: vsql-ai, v

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Website: villagesql.com/blog/introducing-villagesql