New features in MySQL 8

The MySQL database development team has recently announced its major release as MySQL 8 Development Milestone Release (DMR) with significant updates and fixes for problems that were much needed in this change of Big Data.

You might be wondering why it's 8 after 5.7! Did the intermediate versions, that is, 6 and 7, missed out? Of course this was not the case; actually 6.0 was preserved as part of the changeover to a more frequent and timely release while 7.0 for the clustering version of MySQL.

Let's see some exciting features introduced in this latest version, as depicted in the following diagram:

It's time to look at MySQL 8 features in detail, which makes us excited and convinced about the reasons for a major version upgrade of MySQL.