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 ...

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Kevin Xu is general manager of global strategy and operations at PingCAP. TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, MySQL-compatible distributed database that handles hybrid transactional and analytical ...

Love it or hate it, MySQL is the most popular open source database and one of the top relational databases—and with good reason. It is an extremely feature-rich and powerful database platform. With ...

When MySQL 5.5 switched its underlying storage engine MyISAM to another, InnoDB, it drew questions and created some confusion about the foundation of this database. Certainly, the choice of a storage ...

Oracle is synonymous with database. In fact, the company has about six different databases to solve whatever data management problem you have. Are you still running OpenVMS? Oracle will hook you up ...

One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB admin, not ...