Oracle is taking MySQL in a new direction: introducing an aggressively priced cloud service combining transaction processing and data warehousing, with the bonus of dispensing with ETL.

Is MySQL HeatWave really Oracle’s killer app? Maybe I was being a little hyperbolic with my blog title. But MySQL HeatWave was revolutionary from the moment Oracle released it in late 2020.

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 ...

A user, for instance, can use SQL to extract all the memory performance metrics around a specific database table. MySQL Workbench 6.1, which Oracle also released on Monday, ...

Oracle today is following through on its announced plans to make its MySQL HeatWave database management systems available on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud.MySQL HeatWave is a major upgrade t ...

MySQL users start looking at alternatives A key issue is that Oracle is a main competitor to MySQL, notes Timothy Dion, CTO of mobile and Web apps builder Sensei. “I’m very concerned about ...

Support: SQL Server and MySQL Both the SQL Server and MySQL has support from their respective vendors both in free and paid form. MySQL, as we know, is now a subsidiary of Oracle which is a ...

Oracle is adding new machine learning features to its data analytics cloud service MySQL HeatWave. MySQL HeatWave combines OLAP (online analytical processing), OLTP (online transaction processing ...

Oracle first previewed the MySQL Heatwave Lakehouse service in October 2022 and is now making the service generally available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as well as Microsoft Azure.

"MySQL and Oracle do not compete at all," said Ellison. "If you look at where we compete it's with DB2, Microsoft's SQL Server, Sybase, and a long list of others. We never compete against mySQL ...