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 ...

Peter Zaitsev, a former MySQL performance engineer, co-author of the book on getting the most from MySQL, High Performance MySQL, and co-founder of Percona, an open source database enterprise ...

"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 don't try to be the database that has all the features," said Urlocker, vice president of marketing for MySQL AB, the Swedish maker of an open-source database platform. "If someone needs the ...

You may have heard about the upstart MySQL database MariaDB ... In this case, though, it’s a complete rewrite aimed at cloud deployments. Open source yes, but it’s not a drop-in replacement ...

As the world's most popular open source database, MySQL's speed, reliability, and ease of use have made user-generated content and social media available to the masses. In the 18 months since the ...

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 ...

MySQL at the end of January is expected to release a beta version of its MySQL 5.0 open source database, which is to feature enterprise-level functionality such as stored procedures and triggers ...

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 ...

the study concluded that programmers showed a growing interest in the cost-effectiveness and reliability of open-source databases. Developers can download MySQL 4.0 and MySQL 4.1 from the company ...

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 ...