With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL, which uses SQL ...

Love it or hate it, MySQL is the most popular open source database and one of the top relational databases—and with good reason. It is an extremely feature-rich and powerful database platform. With ...

The new fully managed, cloud-based offering, with an advanced analytics engine, makes it possible to run transaction processing and data analysis applications on the same database without the cost or ...

Tony Barbagallo, Clustrix CMO, reached out to me to discuss how scale-out databases can address MySQL limitations. Clustrix believes that their patented, database sharding technology —that is breaking ...

With the accelerated pace of innovation in Web, cloud, social and mobile services, the new GA release of MySQL Cluster 7.3 makes it simpler and faster than ever for developers to enrich their ...

Sun Microsystems set the stage for a heavyweight database battle with one-time close partner Oracle and longtime rival Microsoft with its $1 billion acquisition of open source database kingpin MySQL ...

In its first major refresh in nearly two years, MySQL AB is set to release a new version of its flagship open source database, along with a bevy of new tools and beefed up subscription-based services.

Sun said today it will acquire open source database company MySQL for about $1 billion, a deal that would keep Sun at the center of the thriving open source software industry (see the announcement ...

The GlassFish and MySQL communities have announced that an optimized bundle of the open-source application server and database management system (DBMS) is coming together, just weeks after Sun ...