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 ...

Oracle announced the general availability of the MySQL 5.6 open source database. According to Oracle, with this version, users can experience simplified query development and faster execution, better ...

Clustrix's CMO discusses the limitations of MySQL and how Clustrix's distributed, scale-out approach solves them.

The bottom line: MySQL didn't become the de facto database of choice for Web applications by accident. With Sun hardware optimized for MySQL and strong support, it opens up more opportunities.

MySQL, SQL Server and DB2 stored procedures behave very similarly from the application's point of view. However, Oracle and Postgres calls can look and act differently, especially if your stored ...

A researcher has disclosed a zero-day flaw in the widely-used MySQL database application after Oracle reportedly failed to patch the critical security hole. On Monday, independent security ...

A researcher has discovered a critical security flaw in the world's most widely used open-source database application — one that could allow hackers to completely take over a web server.

A new pluggable storage engine has been developed for MySQL running in IBM i, V5R4 and V6R1 and is now available in beta. The product, IBMDB2I, works with MySQL 5.1.

Oracle Announces MySQL HeatWave ML--the Easiest, Fastest, and Least Expensive Way for Developers to Add Powerful Machine Learning Capabilities to their MySQL Applications ...

Two software rights organizations and a software freedom activist wrote in an open letter to the E.U. that it should not allow Oracle to acquire MySQL because of the potential harm, while MySQL's ...