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MariaDB plc says Enterprise Platform 2027 is generally available. Its 56% peak-throughput claim over version 11.8 rests on a MariaDB-sponsored HammerDB test that MariaDB's own blog calls in-memory and non-durable.
PostgreSQL 19 RC 1, posted October 15, sets general availability for November 19, 2026, and plans RC 2 for November 12 alongside the next scheduled update release.
DuckDB's blog describes a v2.0 CLI agent mode that cut output tokens 59% in its own Claude Code test, but v2.0 is not yet released.
DuckDB's sixth 1.5 patch release fixes wrong-result and crash bugs; the team also reports a v2.0.0-dev Windows build finishing a TPC-H SF300 run in 129 seconds versus 822.
ClickHouse 26.9 ships 56 new features, adding APPEND INCREMENTAL refreshable views for Iceberg, CREATE TOKEN credentials, LIMIT AFTER/UNTIL, and DISTINCT disk spilling.
PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4, released September 24, reverts SQL/PGQ graph queries, online checksum toggling, and four other features as the project targets an October general availability.
The first release candidate of Valkey 9.2 introduces fork-free backups, reusable ACL roles, a radix-tree Path Hash type, and a B+ tree for large sorted sets.
Percona Server for MySQL 9.7.2-2 ships DISTANCE() and VECTOR_DISTANCE(), letting developers rank embeddings by similarity directly in SQL across five distance metrics.
Harper's 5.2 release isolates database commits onto dedicated threads and adds a record cache, while a company benchmark argues single-runtime architecture beats a Vercel-based stack on personalized reads.
Databricks has acquired Electric, pairing its WASM-based local Postgres, PGlite, with a real-time sync engine to give AI agents fast local data alongside its centralized Lakebase database.
Amazon will acquire the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB, but not the open-source project itself, which stays MIT-licensed under the independent DuckDB Foundation.
PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 landed August 13 alongside 19 Beta 3, patching 28 security flaws and over 110 bugs, with PostgreSQL 14 set to lose support in November.