The open-source database maker is simplifying its enterprise pricing structure, offering a new one-price-fits-all licensing model of its flagship offering, MySQL Enterprise.

MySQL founder Michael “Monty” Widenius and his co-founder David Axmark, however, came up with a different model a few years ago: the Business Source License (BSL).

MySQL offers a dual licensing model for its software, meaning people who download the company's database software for free must make any modifications available to the public.

MySQL offers a dual licensing model for its software, meaning people who download the company's database software for free must make any modifications available to the public. Alternatively ...

Today, Xeround officially announced the release of the private beta of its "MySQL for the Cloud" service--an elastic, linearly scalable, relational database designed to run applications in cloud ...

Oracle recently announced a change in the versioning model for MySQL, introducing the MySQL Innovation and Long-Term Supported releases. The first innovation release is MySQL 8.1.0 , which includes In ...

The big news this morning is that open source database startup MySQL finally found a year’s worth of rumors that they were mulling over an initial public offering. Sun Microsystems has acquired ...

Microsoft made its massive inroads into the database market by being low-priced and easy to use. Now MySQL is following the same path with its open-source product.

Oracle is adding a Vector Store and new generative AI features to its data analytics cloud service MySQL HeatWave, the company said at its annual CloudWorld conference. The new Vector Store, which ...