The company wants to offer some features of MySQL solely to enterprise customers, but critics say this is a sign the company wants to move the database away from its open-source roots.

Oracle’s eponymously named Oracle MySQL Database Service with integrated MySQL Analytics Engine is a mouthful. Why did the company use such extended language to name one of its latest products?

But cloud services like Aurora make that partnership even better by removing much of the heavy lifting associated with scaling an open source database like MySQL in production.