The company releases a developer version of MySQL 5.0, which can create and run stored procedures, a feature common to commercial databases. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

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 ...

Usage of the open-source ... study found. Fifteen percent said that if Oracle buys Sun, they would be less inclined to use MySQL. Only 6.3 percent indicated they would be more likely to use the da ...

MySQL on Wednesday announced general availability of Version 4.1 of its MySQL open source database, which the company is positioning as production-ready for large-scale enterprise usage.

"Open-source databases are in the experimentation phase of the market but will move to widespread acceptance by 2006," the AMR Research study said ... a deal in 2003 with MySQL.

We tested six popular free or open source relational database management ... which is based on MySQL and published under the GNU public license. MariaDB isn’t just a mirror image of MySQL ...

Ever since Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, MySQL users have been nervous about Oracle’s commitment to the open source database ... ensuring data consistency in case of hardware failure.

I noticed that the open-source databases—MySQL and PostgreSQL—fared rather poorly, in comparison to the commercial products (notably Oracle and DB2). Hmm, I thought. Maybe it’s a case of ...

Today, PlanetScale, the well-funded MySQL database company founded by the co-creators of the Vitess open source project ... this — and it pays off.” Image Credits: Planetscale To a large ...