An upgraded version of MySQL, 5.7, has been released with next generation hardware in mind, and greater interoperability with Oracle and NoSQL database technologies.

Oracle publishes many benchmarks comparing MySQL HeatWave against its closest competitors. There’s no room to go into those benchmarks in-depth here, but I do want to highlight a few.

Both Fedora and openSUSE will be replacing Oracle's MySQL with its open-source fork--MariaDB. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Jan. 31, 2013, 12:55 p.m. PT ...

Linux distributors have been moving from Oracle's MySQL to its popular fork, MariaDB - and now Google is also moving to MariaDB. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Sept ...

Percona Server 5.6, now available as a free download, also includes all the functionality of Oracle’s community edition of MySQL 5.6, released in February. Percona Server is designed to work ...

The company claims there are 70,000 MySQL downloads a day and 12 million MySQL databases in production. The database is actively running at Web 2.0 giants such as Google Inc., YouTube, Craigslist ...