Let’s start by reviewing some of the leading knocks against MySQL: MySQL 4 and any version of MySQL over the MyISAM storage engine are missing some basic SQL standard transactional capability. They ...

Despite being the most popular open-source database management system (DBMS), Oracle's MySQL has been sinking into trouble. Major Linux distributions like Red Hat and SUSE, are switching it out for ...

Swedish open-source database maker MySQL AB plans to release a new clustered database product with high-availability support next month, company officials disclosed. The new MySQL Cluster combines the ...

Is Red Hat switching from Oracle's MySQL to MariaDB for its default database management system (DBMS) in its next major operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)? Officially, Red Hat hasn't ...

The continuing acceptance and growing usage of Linux as an enterprise computing platform has enlivened the open source community. The term "open source" refers to software that users are free to run, ...

The search giant is moving its terabytes of information to the open source MariaDB format for “ideological reasons,” according to one senior Google engineer. Here’s the backstory. A week ago, news ...

The MySQL Workbench team has released the latest Release Candidate 5.0.15 of their new DBMS modeling tool. This includes quite a few recent bug fixes and it's now rapidly approaching the GA status.

News that is likely to make noise where Oracle lives has come to light as Google decides to go with MariaDB as a replacement for MySQL. Although MySQL is still the most popular database system with ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. If you believe my long-time colleague John C. Dvorak, Sun ...

PostgreSQL 8.0 is currently at RC2. It is the first version to natively support Windows (no cygwin). I'm sure it will be a while before people are 100% confident on Windows but it will be ...