Oracle has done a great technical work with MySQL. Specifically a nice job has been done around security. There is one useful feature that exists in Oracle MySQL and that currently does not exist in MariaDB.
Oracle MySQL offers the possibility from within the server to generate asymetric key pairs. It is then possible use them from within the MySQL server to encrypt, decrypt or sign data without exiting the MySQL server. This is a great feature. This is defined as a set of UDF (User Defined Function : CREATE FUNCTION asymmetric_decrypt, asymmetric_encrypt, asymmetric_pub_key … SONAME 'openssl_udf.so';).
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A critical piece is missing for Oracle MySQL 8 (GA) …
Oracle MySQL 8.0 has been declared GA but a critical piece is missing …
MySQL 8 is a fantastic release embedding the work of brilliant Oracle engineering.
I will not detail all the great features of MySQL 8 as there are a lot of great presentations around it. https://mysqlserverteam.com/whats-new-in-mysql-8-0-generally-available/
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