For developers familiar with MySQL ... after MySQL was acquired by Oracle. Developers will find that the syntax is similar, but MariaDB introduces several notable differences.

With Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems, it also acquires MySQL, the poster child for open-source applications. (Not to mention Solaris, which Sun says is a larger Linux distribution than Red Hat.) ...

“There is just no comparison. The total cost of ownership differences are huge. MySQL HeatWave is going to be a major growth engine for Oracle going forward.” ...

For the next release of its open source MySQL, Oracle is making a number of changes designed to vastly boost the speed of the open source relational database management system. Such a sizeable ...

Employees and customers of MySQL got a jolt of concern in October, when Oracle bought Innobase, a small company supplying an important component of the MySQL open-source database. Now MySQL has a ...