ZDNet

Open-source MariaDB, a MySQL fork, challenges Oracle

MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote its ...
CIO

Web Giants Join Forces for Open Source MySQL Scalability Project

Engineering teams from Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter have begun work on WebScaleSQL, an open source project designed to address the challenges of running MySQL at Web scale. Engineering teams ...
Network World

Linux dispute boils over to MySQL, other projects

A looming deadline following a dispute between two prominent open source developers has forced database vendor MySQL to consider a change to the way it develops its software, and will also force ...
ZDNet

Fedora Linux considering switching out MySQL for MariaDB

Jaroslav Reznik, who is Red Hat's Fedora project manager, proposed the change. Reznik explained that he was suggesting this move because, "The original company behind MySQL, MySQL AB, were bought out ...
Wired

Google and Facebook Team Up to Modernize Old-School Databases

Google completely changed the world of computer databases when it published a research paper describing "Big Table," a sweeping system it built to store information across its online empire. Released ...
Digit

The Creator of MySQL calls out for your help

Michael Widenius, the creator of the MySQL server, one of the most widely used and popular open software software, is now asking for everyone’s help to keep it that way. With the imminent takeover of ...