MySQL 8: New Features

After installing mysql 8 on my ubuntu i did a lookaround for the new features. Oracle itself stated:

 

This is really cool, but how to test this?

A first look inside the standard data directory /var/lib/mysql shows:

/var/lib/mysql# ls -l
insgesamt 168012
-rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql       56 Aug 17 20:53 auto.cnf
-rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql      498 Aug 17 20:53 binlog.000001
-rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql      554 Aug 17 21:07 binlog.000002
-rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql       32 Aug 17 20:54 binlog.index
-rw------- 1 mysql mysql     1676 Aug 17 20:53 ca-key.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql     1112 Aug 17 20:53 ca.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql     1112 Aug 17 20:53 client-cert.pem
-rw------- 1 mysql mysql     1680 Aug 17 20:53 client-key.pem
-rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql     4533 Aug 17 20:53 ib_buffer_pool
-rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 12582912 Aug 17 21:07 ibdata1
-rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 50331648 Aug 17 21:07 ib_logfile0
-rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 50331648 Aug 17 20:53 ib_logfile1
-rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 12582912 Aug 17 20:56 ibtmp1
drwxr-x--- 2 mysql mysql     4096 Aug 17 21:07 mydatabase
drwxr-x--- 2 mysql mysql     4096 Aug 17 20:53 mysql
-rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 25165824 Aug 17 21:07 mysql.ibd
drwxr-x--- 2 mysql mysql     4096 Aug 17 20:53 performance_schema
-rw------- 1 mysql mysql     1680 Aug 17 20:53 private_key.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql      452 Aug 17 20:53 public_key.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql     1112 Aug 17 20:53 server-cert.pem
-rw------- 1 mysql mysql     1680 Aug 17 20:53 server-key.pem
drwxr-x--- 2 mysql mysql     4096 Aug 17 20:53 sys
-rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 10485760 Aug 17 21:07 undo_001
-rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 10485760 Aug 17 21:07 undo_002

The sys and the perfomance_schema directories does not contain any frm or ISAM-style files. 

The mysql server team shows these pictures on their site (https://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-data-dictionary-status-in-the-8-0-0-dmr/)

And if you create your own database each table is stored in its own ibd file and not all in one tablespace file, because innodb_file_per_table is set to 1 as default. With this shrinking tables can be done without a problem...