Oracle is taking MySQL in a new direction: introducing an aggressively priced cloud service combining transaction processing and data warehousing, with the bonus of dispensing with ETL.

It's time to stop sniping at Oracle's handling of MySQL. Far from declining over the past few years, the open-source database has actually improved under Oracle's stewardship, according to Percona ...

A number of influential members of the open-source community are raising their voices about Oracle’s pending takeover of the open source MySQL database.

Oracle’s advances in the MySQL space with HeatWave raise an important question: Why hasn’t someone else done this? After all, MySQL is hardly new, with the first version appearing in 1995.