MySQL is one of the most popular open source databases. It is included as part of a variety of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stacks, and large organizations such as Wikipedia, Twitter and ...

MySQL databases are easy to use when you are just starting out, but when your database grows (for example, after a year or so of operations) you can easily run into its limits. The most commonly ...

As the database component of the LAMP stack, MySQL offered an irresistible combination for web developers: It was free, easy to install, and “good enough” to back dynamic websites.

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 ...

In contrast, Version 5.0 of MySQL has been downloaded more than 6 million times since October, said Zack Urlocker, vice president of marketing at MySQL AB’s U.S. offices in Cupertino. “Sure, the ...

Of the major free DBMS's (MySQL, MS SQL, etc.) that are appropriate for web apps, which database makes geolocation querying the easiest? Thanks, Pete ...

MySQL is the most popular open-source database among developers, according to a recent Evans Data study. IBM earlier this month released a free version of its own DB2 database as part of a PHP ...