MySQL's open-source nature presents both challenges and opportunities, particularly in balancing community-driven development with sustainable business models.

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 ...

The MySQL relational database serves as a back end for millions of websites, and powers millions of non-Internet data-handling applications. In 2009 ownership of MySQL passed to Oracle when it ...

MySQL is a database (see D - Do you speak my language: D is for Database, debug, DNS) program. It is a very powerful and fast database and is very useful in teaching set-ups, but it does lack of ...

MySQL is the second most popular database in use, according the DB-Engines Ranking, and is a key element of the LAMP — Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP — open-source web development stack.

With the latest update to MySQL HeatWave, Oracle shows no signs of slowing down. And I think this service may be the “killer app” for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)—or even Oracle as a ...

MySQL's valuation is not much different from that of others that have been sold such as JBoss and Zimbra.

It may be time for Oracle to donate MySQL -- as it did with OpenOffice -- to The Apache Foundation, or another open source house. It's no secret that the Redwood Shores, Calif. company acquired ...

Everyone knows what the default database isolation level of MySQL is, right? Yes, it is RR. But why do major internet ...

Today, PlanetScale, the well-funded MySQL database company founded by the co-creators of the Vitess open source project, announced that it is forking MySQL in order to add vector support — in ...