An upgraded version of MySQL, 5.7, has been released with next generation hardware in mind, and greater interoperability with Oracle and NoSQL database technologies.

Oracle’s own planned NoSQL access for future editions of MySQL would draw heavily from HandlerSocket, though it would stick more closely to the Memecached API, Ulin said.

No relation The third consequence of the MySQL project’s to keep up with the scalability and availability demands of the current time, Sallner says, has been the proliferation of non-relational, or ...

Speculation has been running rampant that Oracle may introduce its own NoSQL database at the OpenWorld conference, to be held next week in San Francisco.

While NoSQL may be getting all the buzz, in many cases an old fashioned relational database, such as MySQL, may work just as well if not better. That was the message from a number of MySQL users who ...

With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Cassandra.

Find out the differences between MySQL, an SQL database, and MongoDB, a NoSQL database.

Sometimes a good argument brings its own rewards. Such was the case with database management vendor Severalnines, who sent me a sharply-worded pitch about a database-as-commodity debate I started with ...

The new Schooner appliances for MySQL Enterprise with InnoDB and for Memcached/NoSQL include the following improvements, Busch said: improved “optimization of the MySQL and Memcached software ...