GitHub - alibaba/AliSQL: AliSQL is a MySQL branch originated from Alibaba Group. Fetch document from Release Notes at bottom.

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/alibaba/AliSQL.git
cd AliSQL

# Build (release mode)
sh build.sh -t release -d ~/alisql

# Install
make install

# Initialize data directory
~/alisql/bin/mysqld --initialize-insecure --datadir=~/alisql/data

# Start the server
~/alisql/bin/mysqld --datadir=~/alisql/data

-- Create an analytical table with DuckDB engine
CREATE TABLE sales_analytics (
    sale_date DATE,
    product_id INT,
    revenue DECIMAL(10,2),
    quantity INT
) ENGINE=DuckDB;

-- Run complex analytics (200x faster than InnoDB!)
SELECT
    DATE_FORMAT(sale_date, '%Y-%m') as month,
    SUM(revenue) as total_revenue,
    COUNT(*) as transactions
FROM sales_analytics
GROUP BY month
ORDER BY total_revenue DESC;

-- Create a table with vector column
CREATE TABLE embeddings (
    id INT PRIMARY KEY,
    content TEXT,
    embedding VECTOR(768)  -- 768-dimensional vectors
) ENGINE=InnoDB;

-- Create HNSW index for fast ANN search
CREATE VECTOR INDEX idx_embedding ON embeddings(embedding);

-- Find similar items using cosine distance
SELECT id, content,
       COSINE_DISTANCE(embedding, '[0.1, 0.2, ...]') as distance
FROM embeddings
ORDER BY distance
LIMIT 10;

Q4 2025  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
         [x] DuckDB Storage Engine  [x] Vector Index (VIDX)   [x] Open Source

2026     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
         [ ] DDL Optimization       [ ] RTO Optimization      [ ] Replication Boost
             - Instant DDL              - Fast Crash Recovery     - Binlog Parallel Flush
             - Parallel B+tree          - Minimize RTO            - Binlog in Redo
             - Non-blocking Locks                                 - Large TX Optimization

# Install
curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aliyun/rdsai-cli/main/install.sh | sh

# Connect and ask in natural language
rdsai --host localhost -u root -p secret -D mydb
mysql> analyze index usage on users table
mysql> show me slow queries from the last hour
mysql> why this query is slow: SELECT * FROM users WHERE name LIKE '%john%'