Oracle is taking MySQL in a new direction: introducing an aggressively priced cloud service combining transaction processing and data warehousing, with the bonus of dispensing with ETL.

Addition of MySQL Analytics Engine is expected to bolster the adoption of Oracle's (ORCL) MySQL Database Service and consolidate its position in the lucrative database management service market.

It's tempting to speculate that Oracle 's bid for Sun Microsystems is a convenient way to kill off open-source database wonder, MySQL. But MySQL's former chief executive, Mårten Mickos, sees ...

Oracle publishes many benchmarks comparing MySQL HeatWave against its closest competitors. There’s no room to go into those benchmarks in-depth here, but I do want to highlight a few.

Oracle today is following through on its announced plans to make its MySQL HeatWave database management systems available on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud.

MySQL Autopilot uses advanced machine learning techniques to accelerate HeatWave query performance and scalability in Oracle Cloud’s MySQL Database Service. Credit: PublicDomainPictures ...

Percona continues to nip at Oracle's heels, releasing a free version of the open-source MySQL 5.6 database with advanced features similar to ones in Oracle's paid enterprise edition.