A new MySQL foreign data wrapper for Postgres is designed to help firms combine and query data from their databases.

For the purpose of comparing MySQL to the “lite” versions of the proprietary databases, Builder AU created a hypothetical online business, relatively small, that sells books and DVDs.

In its first major refresh in nearly two years, MySQL is set to release a new version of its flagship open source database accompanied by a bevy of new tools and beefed-up subscription-based services.

The MySQL Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter engineering teams have joined forces to create their own version of MySQL, WebScaleSQL for their monster-sized databases.

Open-source databases MySQL and PostgreSQL are gaining steam, but rip-and-replace situations where MySQL and PostgreSQL replace Oracle Database, IBM DB2 or Microsoft SQL Server databases remain rare.

More than 18,000 people have signed an online petition urging the European Union to insist on safeguards for the MySQL open source database owned by Sun Microsystems. The petition was set up by ...

Good old-fashioned SQL still rules the database roost even though popular offerings in the NoSQL camp are closing the gap, while MySQL is the most popular of the whole bunch in a new report from ...

A publicly disclosed vulnerability in the MySQL database could allow attackers to completely compromise some servers. The vulnerability affects “all MySQL servers in default configuration in all ...