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 ...

Come October 2023, MySQL 5.7 will no longer receive updates or security patches. It’s time to understand your options and plan for the path ahead.

VP & Principal Analyst, Datacenter Compute, Matt Kimball, dives in as he explains the latest update to MySQL HeatWave, Oracle shows no signs of slowing down. And I think this service may be the ...

Contrary to the notion that MySQL is in decline, it’s expanding across industries and keeping pace with technological advancements.

Contributor agreements grease the funding wheels of many open source projects, but they can also endanger a project's health and stability. Simon Phipps uses the Oracle-MySQL scare to illustrate.

Is mySQL now a choice enterprises can place alongside Oracle, IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server? Or does it still have a long way to go?

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 ...

Oracle has announced that an update to MySQL 5.5 Enterprise Edition is now available. New in this release is the addition of MySQL Enterprise Backup and MySQL Workbench along with enhancements in ...