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Announcing Vitess 21

What's this blog post about?

Vitess 21 is now generally available, focusing on enhancing query compatibility, improving cluster management, and expanding VReplication capabilities. Key features include reference table materialization, multi-metric throttler support, enhanced online DDL functionality, a new mysqlshell engine for backup and restore processes, and detailed execution traces and schema analysis with vexplain. The Vitess Kubernetes Operator introduces horizontal auto-scaling for VTGate pods and Kubernetes 1.31 support, improving overall scalability and deployment flexibility.

Company
PlanetScale

Date published
Oct. 29, 2024

Author(s)
Vitess Engineering Team

Word count
1293

Language
English

Hacker News points
1


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