With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL, which uses SQL ...

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 ...

Ever since Linux became a viable server operating system, organizations have been looking to all kinds of open source software (OSS) to save on license and maintenance costs and to enjoy the benefits ...

As a MySQL developer, you should be at least dimly aware that MySQL supports several database formats. Find out what each is good for and how you use them. What if you were a racecar driver and could ...

Big Red's acquisition of MySQL sent users running toward the open source alternative, says Michael Stonebraker ...

Earlier, we discussed SQL Databases. In this post, I will list some popular open-source, free database software. Before starting any service online, it is necessary to choose a database that can ...

MySQL is a relational database system. If you can believe many diehard MySQL fans, MySQL is faster, more reliable, and cheaper -- or, simply put, better -- than any other database system (including ...

Stellar, a global leader in Data Care, offers Stellar® Repair for MySQL, a specialized database repair solution designed to repair corrupted, inaccessible, or damaged database components.

The hardest part of enumerating the best reasons to use MySQL is figuring out in what order the reasons should be presented. It’s like the age-old debate about the chicken and the egg. Are MySQL’s ...