MariaDB challenges MySQL with greater performance, more advanced features, and complete backward compatibility Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

The most obvious competition for Cloud SQL is Amazon’s Aurora service. When reviewed by InfoWorld’s Martin Heller in October 2015, it supported a recent version of MySQL (5.6) and had many of ...

MySQL, SQL Server and DB2 stored procedures behave very similarly from the application's point of view. However, Oracle and Postgres calls can look and act differently, especially if your stored ...

With Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems, it also acquires MySQL, the poster child for open-source applications. (Not to mention Solaris, which Sun says is a larger Linux distribution than Red Hat.

Sauce Labs looked to get away from MySQL and embraced CouchDB back in 2008. But performance and maintenance issues dogged them, so they made the jump to MySQL. Till Klampaeckel, on his blog ...