With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Cassandra. “We’re in constant dialogue with our ...

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 ...

You'd think the advent of 'webscale' NoSQL databases would have consigned MySQL to history. But you'd be very wrong MySQL is a bit of an attention hog. With relational databases supposedly put on ...

Oracle has released an upgrade to its open-source database MySQL, with the purpose of making it work better with Oracle’s database technologies and NoSQL databases. MySQL 5.7 continues a convergence ...

Oracle this week announced the general availability of MySQL 5.6. The latest release of the open source relational database management system (RDBMS) takes on a growing field of NoSQL competitors, ...

Oracle has released a new version of MySQL. Version 5.6 will continue to hit the “sweet spot of the web market”, said Tomas Ulin, vice-president of engineering. The new version of the open source ...

It came from Severalnines, framed around this debate. Now, just like MariaDB, Severalnines has a dog in this fight, as their company, billed as an "all-inclusive open source database management system ...

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Craigslist handles a boatload of postings every day, but as big as that load is, their daily incoming traffic is not enough to sink a relational vessel. However, managing their archive of postings was ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Hoping to give database managers and developers more flexibility in handling vast amounts of data, SkySQL is releasing versions of its MariaDB-based Enterprise and Enterprise Cluster products that ...