MySQL, the open source relational database that came to Oracle through the Sun Microsystems acquisition, originated as a relatively simple relational database that was known for one task: transaction ...

Monty Widenius, one of the original cofounders of MySQL, issued a statement Monday articulating his latest views about Oracle’s acquisition of Sun. He shares the European Commission’s concern that the ...

A commonly understood principle in the tech world is that over time, every industry ultimately gets disrupted. It’s MySQL’s turn. The popular database technology was due for a shakeup after nearly 26 ...

Florian Mueller, coordinating opposition to Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems and mySQL, sent a note today cheering word that Oracle has asked for, and gotten, a six-day delay to answer European ...

Oracle is synonymous with database. In fact, the company has about six different databases to solve whatever data management problem you have. Are you still running OpenVMS? Oracle will hook you up ...

Interviewed at an industry gathering in Silicon Valley, Oracle CEO maintains that despite EU concerns, Oracle's database does not compete with MySQL. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and ...

When the European Commission isn’t occupied with important duties such as regulating banana curvature, it likes to turn its attention to large companies with significant market share. EU regulators ...

The new lakehouse service, designed to quickly load and query up to 400TB of data, will compete with offerings from Oracle rivals that have also jumped on the lakehouse concept, including Snowflake, ...

Taking aim at competitors including Amazon Aurora and Snowflake, Oracle has enhanced the MySQL HeatWave in-memory query accelerator in the Oracle Cloud’s MySQL Database Service by leveraging advanced ...