For the purpose of comparing MySQL to the “lite” versions of the proprietary databases, Builder AU created a hypothetical online business, relatively small, that sells books and DVDs.

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The MySQL Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter engineering teams have joined forces to create their own version of MySQL, WebScaleSQL for their monster-sized databases.

A new MySQL foreign data wrapper for Postgres is designed to help firms combine and query data from their databases. Written by Toby Wolpe, Contributor Nov. 11, 2014 at 11:00 p.m. PT ...