The MySQL Enterprise commercial subscription service will gain some wizardry later this year as MySQL announces the upcoming addition of "Merlin," a database monitoring and advisory service.

Open source company MySQL confirmed recent reports that it will offer a database monitoring and advisory service as part of its MySQL Enterprise commercial subscription service later this year.

Percona has introduced version 1.5 of its free and open source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL and MongoDB performance. This new release improves support for MySQL on Amazon Relational ...