The popular open-source applications is set to get support for clustering, a feature that lets one or more databases take over if another fails. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Over the past few years, the open source relational database management systems MySQL and MariaDB have undergone tremendous changes: new and improved features, fixes for long-standing problems, better ...

Open-source darling MySQL is facing a new uprising within its customer base over plans disclosed this week to reserve some key upcoming features, and their source code, for paying users of its ...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuent, a leading provider of solutions for business-critical applications using MySQL and MariaDB databases, featuring cluster management, data ...

How effective are free and open source data bases? For answers, we reviewed 6:: Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle's MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby and Firebird SQL. Free or open source ...

The creator of MySQL has launched a Web-based campaign to "save" the open-source database from the "clutches" of Oracle, which is attempting to purchase its current owner, Sun Microsystems. Oracle ...

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 ...

The latest version of Oracle's widely deployed MySQL open-source database is now available for download, offering improvements designed to appeal particularly to web, cloud and embedded-application ...

MySQL plans to announce a higher-end addition next month that will allow more than one instance of its open-source database to take over if another fails. The software, MySQL Cluster, is based on ...