It's time to stop sniping at Oracle's handling of MySQL. Far from declining over the past few years, the open-source database has actually improved under Oracle's stewardship, according to Percona ...

MariaDB, the MySQL fork database management system, is throwing down the gauntlet to Oracle by forming a foundation to promote its alternative DBMS software.

Oracle’s advances in the MySQL space with HeatWave raise an important question: Why hasn’t someone else done this? After all, MySQL is hardly new, with the first version appearing in 1995.