villagesql-server

INSTALL EXTENSION vsql-complex; CREATE TABLE t (val COMPLEX); Look, MySQL is awesome [flamewar incoming?]. But the ecosystem has stagnated. Why? No permissionless innovation. Postgres has flourished because people can change the core of the database (look at pgvector and pg_textsearch), without having to get their changes accepted upstream. (This, btw, is what powered GitHub's early success: you can fork a repo and make changes without needing the owners' approval) VillageSQL is a tracking fork of MySQL (open source, ofc) that adds an extension framework: * Drop-in replacement * Add custom data types and functions (with indexes coming soon) * we wrote example extensions (vsql-ai, -uuid, crypto, etc.) * you have a better idea for an extension * my CEO submitted a Show HN post but linked to the announcement blog; help me show him hackers

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, vsql-uuid, vsql-crypto, vsql-network-address. We’re currently in alpha. We know forking MySQL is a big swing, but we believe the community needs a