Oracle Corp.’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. will bring together the world’s most valuable relational database with the most popular open source one: MySQL. Oracle reaped ...

With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL is designed to let users ...

Oracle is taking MySQL in a new direction: introducing an aggressively priced cloud service combining transaction processing and data warehousing, with the bonus of dispensing with ETL.

Oracle announces the latest batch of updates to HeatWave that bring new capabilities for enterprise machine learning, AI-driven automation, and multi-cloud support.

Oracle probably didn't understand MySQL well enough to want to buy the open-source start-up, now part of Sun. Like a knife and screwdriver, their products are complementary.

Oracle has added additional commercial extensions to the enterprise edition of its open-source MySQL database, further differentiating it from the community version available to anyone at no ...

Open-source database company, with its own storage engine in the works, renews contract with Oracle around InnoDB.

In October, Oracle sent Red Hat’s stock plummeting on the announcement that the database vendor would offer cut-rate support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, under the “Unbreakable Linux” brand ...

Oracle today is following through on its announced plans to make its MySQL HeatWave database management systems available on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud. MySQL HeatWave is a major upgrade ...

It's tempting to speculate that Oracle 's bid for Sun Microsystems is a convenient way to kill off open-source database wonder, MySQL. But MySQL's former chief executive, Mårten Mickos, sees ...

Oracle is making a fresh run at Microsoft’s SQL Server, claiming on Tuesday that its open-source MySQL database offers up to 90 percent cost savings over SQL Server along with blazing ...

In this article, author Deepak Vohra discusses the details of migrating an on-prem database to a MySQL database on the cloud, using AWS Database Migration Service.