MySQL on Wednesday announced general availability of Version 4.1 of its MySQL open source database, which the company is positioning as production-ready for large-scale enterprise usage. The upgrade ...

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...

MySQL plans to include enterprise-level technology from SAP in its own open source database, after announcing Tuesday the acquisition of rights to SAP’s database, SAP DB. The two companies will work ...

Ever since Oracle's acquisition of Sun, MySQL users have been nervous about Oracle's commitment to the open source database, given Oracle's own database product line. At the O'Reilly MySQL Conference ...

DBeaver is a free, open-source, cross-platform SQL client and database administration tool. It is designed to support a wide variety of SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL. Its key ...

I’d been planning a write-up anyway on the very different open source strategies of PostgreSQL-based EnterpriseDB, PostgreSQL-based Greenplum, and PostgreSQL-based Aster Data – not to mention ...

BOSTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Business computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc said on Friday that two top executives with its mySQL open-source database unit are leaving the company. Marten Mickos, a senior ...

Oracle Corp. this month bought Sleepycat Software Inc., its second acquisition in the past five months of a company offering technology that can be used as a storage engine for the MySQL open-source ...