MariaDB, headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., positioned the SkySQL acquisition as creating more flexibility for customers ...

MySQL Enterprise Edition is an RDBMS software that includes advanced management tools, features, and technical support to achieve high levels of MySQL security, reliability, scalability and uptime.

To generate interest from developers, Boston-based Akiban Technologies has released as open source its flagship database software, called Akiban Server. The company also released a connector for ...

The big three proprietary suppliers of database software – Oracle, IBM and Microsoft, compete in multi-billion dollar market, at one time snubbed their nose at the arrival of MySQL. After all ...

MySQL offers a dual licensing model for its software, meaning people who download the company's database software for free must make any modifications available to the public.

Open-source database vendor MySQL AB and business intelligence (BI) software provider JasperSoft Corp. Tuesday announced a joint reselling agreement.

Sun has claimed that completing its purchase of the open-source database developer MySQL will enable it to become the most complete provider of open-source server software. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun ...

Updated: Sun Microsystems is taking the plunge into the database market with the purchase of open source database developer MySQL for $1 billion ($800 million in cash in exchange for all MySQL ...

MySQL fills Oracle-consumed hole in database Open-source database company, with its own storage engine in the works, renews contract with Oracle around InnoDB.

MySQL competes against proprietary database players like IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle, pitting its software both against their entry-level free databases and their commercial enterprise offerings.