Oracle, the steward over MySQL since 2010, may proclaim MySQL is “the world’s favorite database,” but that has been objectively false for a long time, as shown by developer sentiment surveys ...

Ryan King, an engineer at Twitter, today told the blog MyNoSQL that the social networking company plans to move from MySQL to the Cassandra database for what he called its resilience, scalability ...

MySQL database administrators are encouraged to test MySQL Server 5.5.0-m2, code-named "Betony," though not run it on their production systems yet. "The new features in this release are of beta ...