Observers say that Oracle's acquisition of MySQL will not be damaging to MySQL itself and question the motives of some detractors A number of influential members of the open-source community are ...

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 ...

Oracle has introduced JavaScript support in the MySQL database, allowing developers to write JavaScript stored programs, i.e. JavaScript functions and procedures, in the MySQL database server.

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.

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 ...