Peter Zaitsev: Oracle’s work has been much better quality. Image: Percona It’s time to stop sniping at Oracle’s handling of MySQL. Far from declining over the past few years, the open-source database ...

MySQL on Monday introduced an early version of its software, which adds support for “stored procedures,” a capability widely used in corporate databases for reusing database queries across different ...

Then open-source database company takes a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL database and another software ...

John Engates is the CTO of Rackspace Hosting and an evangelist for the open cloud. Open source data has a split personality. There’s the NoSQL zealot who likes to fire off tirades against the ...

MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote its ...

Observers say that Oracle's acquisition of MySQL will not be damaging to MySQL itself and question the motives of some detractors A number of influential members of the open-source community are ...

When it comes to an open source database comparison, it is important to figure out what your organization wants out of your database in order to make the correct choice. The popularity of database ...