Oracle said it's made MySQL 70 times faster than previous versions. The new MySQL Cluster 7.2 database can now do 1.05 billion reads per minute, according to Oracle's benchmarks.

Oracle reaped $8.34 billion from database sales in 2007, giving it 37.6 percent of the $22.2 billion global market, according to IDC. The 2008 figures are not yet available, IDC said.

Observers say that Oracle's acquisition of MySQL will not be ... members of the open-source community are raising their voices about Oracle’s pending takeover of the open source MySQL database.

Oracle probably didn't understand MySQL well enough to want to buy the open-source start-up, now part of Sun. Like a knife and screwdriver, their products are complementary.

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 ...

Two years later, MySQL was acquired for $1bn by Sun Microsystems, which in turn was bought by Oracle for $7.4bn in 2010. By then, some of the database's original creators had already left to ...

Oracle’s handling of MySQL has been closely watched by community members who use and help develop the database, which it acquired through the purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010.

Oracle and MySQL are two popular database platforms that have different features, data types, and syntaxes, which can complicate the migration process. In this article, ...

Before you can use Oracle SQL Developer or MySQL Workbench, you need to connect to a database server. Both tools support various types of connections, such as JDBC, ODBC, SSH, or cloud services.