It's time to stop sniping at Oracle's handling of MySQL. Far from declining over ... "The balance right now has still to be found where those different technologies fit best." ...

"It's pretty good having Oracle as a subcontractor." The MySQL database can work with different storage engines, including InnoDB. Until now, MySQL has relied on engines written by a third party ...

Experts cite a plethora of reasons why the deal doesn’t create a database monopoly. For one, MySQL, despite its wild popularity, won’t add much to Oracle ... It’s a very different situation ...

These include: • Open-source MySQL. • MySQL Enterprise by Oracle. • MySQL Heatwave ... Azure Database for MySQL from Microsoft. • Google Cloud SQL, also MySQL-compatible.

Oracle also said the offering doesn’t compete with its own Autonomous Database. The two “address very different markets,” Agarwal said. “MySQL HeatWave supports popular open-source web ...