Oracle Announces General Availability of MySQL 8.0

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A quote from their [official release post](https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/announcing-general-availability-of-mysql-80) : 
 
>MySQL News Announcements (2018)
Oracle Announces General Availability of MySQL 8.0
19 April 2018 — MySQL adds NoSQL and many new enhancements to the world’s most popular open source database:
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>NoSQL - Document Store gives developers the flexibility of developing traditional SQL relational applications and NoSQL, schema-free document database applications.
SQL - Window functions, Common Table Expressions, NOWAIT and SKIP LOCKED, Descending Indexes, Grouping, Regular Expressions, Character Sets, Cost Model, and Histograms.
JSON - Extended syntax, new functions, improved sorting, and partial updates. With JSON table functions you can use the SQL machinery for JSON data.
GIS - Geography support. Spatial Reference Systems (SRS), as well as SRS aware spatial datatypes, spatial indexes, and spatial functions.
Reliability - DDL statements have become atomic and crash safe, meta-data is stored in a single, transactional data dictionary
Observability- Performance Schema, Information Schema, Invisible Indexes, Error Logging.
Manageability - Persistent Configuration Variables, Undo tablespace management, Restart command, and New DDL.
High Availability - InnoDB Cluster delivers an integrated, native, HA solution for your databases.
Security - OpenSSL improvements, new default authentication, SQL Roles, breaking up the super privilege, password strength, authorization.
Performance - Up to 2x faster than MySQL 5.7