The popular open-source applications is set to get support for clustering, a feature that lets one or more databases take over if another fails. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

This week, the company will unveil a new VAR program, designed to better entrench the database in businesses of all sizes, and long-anticipated clustering technology, which stands to make the database ...

With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL, which uses SQL ...

Then open-source database company takes a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL database and another software ...

It's time to stop sniping at Oracle's handling of MySQL. Far from declining over the past few years, the open-source database has actually improved under Oracle's stewardship, according to Percona CEO ...