The Net retailer's cloud-computing effort is getting more sophisticated with the arrival of a database service with which more people will be familiar. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

MySQL AB has released the production version of its open-source database upgrade, MySQL 5.0. The new release, which had been expected this month or next, adds several features that have long been ...

In a Facebook engineering blog, Steaphan Greene, a Facebook software engineer, announced the creation of a new MySQL branch: WebScaleSQL. This is a version of Oracle's MySQL for gigantic database ...

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 ...

Anyone who's followed the fortunes of MySQL and MariaDB these past 15 years will probably remember SkySQL, another brand that once existed within that same database ecosystem and, a year ago, became a ...

Good old-fashioned SQL still rules the database roost, though popular offerings in the NoSQL camp are closing the gap, while MySQL is the most popular of the whole bunch. The new 2019 Database Trends ...

More than 85,000 MySQL databases are currently on sale on a dark web portal for a price of only $550/database. The portal, brought to ZDNet's attention earlier today by a security researcher, is part ...

Magister Ludi, a human-factors centered software and training house based in Milan, Italy, has released YourSQL version 1.0, a free, open source Mac OS X application ...

Ever since Linux became a viable server operating system, organizations have been looking to all kinds of open source software (OSS) to save on license and maintenance costs and to enjoy the benefits ...

With the release of MySQL version 5.5, Oracle is marketing the open-source database for Web application duties, while targeting its namesake Oracle database for enterprise applications. “We see them ...