With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL is designed to let users ...

MySQL, SQL Server and DB2 stored procedures behave very similarly from the application's point of view. However, Oracle and Postgres calls can look and act differently, especially if your stored ...

Oracle announced the general availability of the MySQL 5.6 open source database. According to Oracle, with this version, users can experience simplified query development and faster execution, better ...

Clustrix's CMO discusses the limitations of MySQL and how Clustrix's distributed, scale-out approach solves them.

Oracle Announces MySQL HeatWave ML--the Easiest, Fastest, and Least Expensive Way for Developers to Add Powerful Machine Learning Capabilities to their MySQL Applications ...

Beveiligings experts waarschuwen voor een nieuwe worm die zich via de populaire open-source database MySQL verspreid. De worm, met de bijnaam MySpool, nestelt z ...

Right now, Kickfire is aiming its appliance at the 1TB-3TB database market -- which for the Web 2.0 and mid-size application crowd looking to get some very high performance on the cheap, seems ...

MySQL co-founders David Axmark and Michael "Monty" Widenius touted some new 5.0 features, including support for "precision math" for financial applications; plans for a global back-up API; and ...

Two software rights organizations and a software freedom activist wrote in an open letter to the E.U. that it should not allow Oracle to acquire MySQL because of the potential harm, while MySQL's ...

The relative inability of MySQL database technology to handle large data sets is pushing companies to consider so-called NoSQL alternatives for their 'big data' analytics requirements. One company ...