functions, Common Table Expressions, NOWAIT and SKIP LOCKED, Descending Indexes. JSON Extended syntax, new functions, improved sorting, and partial updates. With JSON table functions you can use the SQL machinery for JSON data Performance InnoDB is significantly better at Read/Write workloads, IO bound workloads, and high contention “hot spot” workloads Descending Indexes MySQL 8.0 delivers support for indexes in descending order. MySQL 8.0 makes UTF8MB4 the default character set from “latin1”