Xeround offers a free subscription to a MySQL-based database as a service limited offering. Will this move popularize database as a service offerings? The simple answer is yes.

And to capture the complete details of activity audits from the world’s most widely used relational database management system, McAfee releases a free downloadable audit plug-in for MySQL.

There are plenty of GUI tools available that can manage your MySQL database, even from the Windows environment. MySQL is one of the most popular database servers on the planet. It’s free, open ...

There's a lot to like about MySQL databases if you're a start-up, until success comes knocking a bit too fast. And that has now made Twoo the poster child for Clustrix, a San Francisco start-up ...

Oracle said it's made MySQL 70 times faster than previous versions. The new MySQL Cluster 7.2 database can now do 1.05 billion reads per minute, according to Oracle's benchmarks.

Open-source database company MySQL plans to provide technical details next week on its homegrown storage engine and upcoming administration tools. The database engine, code-named Falcon and due ...

In some ways the estimated $1 billion dollar acquisition brings MySQL home to Sun since the database was originally developed to run on Sun's Solaris operating system.

The MySQL faithful spent last month's user conference hearing about the same thing they heard about last year: the still-unshipping MySQL 5.0 database.