MySQL is not the first open-source relational database supporting Javascript in stored routines, with PLV8 being the most popular Javascript language extension for PostgreSQL.

MySQL-JavaScript unlocks opportunities in application design that once were constrained by a tradeoff, Oracle said. JavaScript stored programs let developers sidestep data movement and implement ...

Version 9.0 of MySQL comes with major new features: The innovation release offers JavaScript functions for SQL and a vector type for AI friends.