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.

Meanwhile, MySQL has been downloaded more than 100 million times, according to Sun. The company claims there are 70,000 MySQL downloads a day and 12 million MySQL databases in production.

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 ...

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 ...