At the NoSQL Now conference, held last month in San Jose, Oracle MySQL developer John David Duncan outlined a number of earlier attempts to provide alternative non-SQL access to MySQL Cluster ...

Find out the differences between MySQL, an SQL database, and MongoDB, a NoSQL database.

No relation The third consequence of the MySQL project’s to keep up with the scalability and availability demands of the current time, Sallner says, has been the proliferation of non-relational, or ...

While NoSQL may be getting all the buzz, in many cases an old fashioned relational database, such as MySQL, may work just as well if not better. That was the message from a number of MySQL users who ...

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 ...

With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Cassandra.

Using the DBT2 flexAsynch benchmark, Oracle's MySQL team claimed an 8x performance boost over the previous version of MySQL Cluster. But just how it measures up against NoSQL contenders is unclear ...

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 ...