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. “We’re in constant dialogue with our ...

Of any enterprise technology, enterprises are most dedicated to their chosen database. Once data goes into a particular database, CIOs hate to take it out. It's costly, and the risks often outweigh ...

Oracle has released a new version of MySQL. Version 5.6 will continue to hit the “sweet spot of the web market”, said Tomas Ulin, vice-president of engineering. The new version of the open source ...

John Engates is the CTO of Rackspace Hosting and an evangelist for the open cloud. Open source data has a split personality. There’s the NoSQL zealot who likes to fire off tirades against the ...

Oracle this week announced the general availability of MySQL 5.6. The latest release of the open source relational database management system (RDBMS) takes on a growing field of NoSQL competitors, ...

Craigslist handles a boatload of postings every day, but as big as that load is, their daily incoming traffic is not enough to sink a relational vessel. However, managing their archive of postings was ...