Recently, I became the owner of more than a thousand records of Go (an ancient oriental strategic board game) games played by professional or amateur players. All the games were stored in Smart Game ...

MySQL is a common database amongst many organizations. As such, when building an automation script that needs to query data from somewhere, you might run into the need to query a MySQL database. By ...

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Taking aim at competitors including Amazon Aurora and Snowflake, Oracle has enhanced the MySQL HeatWave in-memory query accelerator in the Oracle Cloud’s MySQL Database Service by leveraging advanced ...

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...

In a Facebook engineering blog, Steaphan Greene, a Facebook software engineer, announced the creation of a new MySQL branch: WebScaleSQL. This is a version of Oracle's MySQL for gigantic database ...

Although I think MySQL sucks, I think you'd have the same problem with any database product so switching would not make this problem go away. (Another DB might execute queries faster by a constant ...

The MEMORY storage engine stores all data in memory (RAM), and is used for fast lookup of data. InnoDB supports a buffer pool memory area to store all or most data in memory. NDB supports in-memory ...

Code that Microsoft made available under a public license earlier this year will be used in the next production release of open-source database MySQL. The Microsoft source code will be used in version ...