AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines
Summary
AliSQL is Alibaba's open-source MySQL fork that adds a DuckDB storage engine and native vector processing to enable AI-driven analytics via SQL. It targets enterprise-scale deployments with features like up to 16,383 vector dimensions and an ANN-based search (HNSW), plus planned optimizations for DDL, RTO, and replication. The project is GPL-2.0 licensed with documentation and release notes available on the GitHub repository.