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.

MySQL is a 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 all its positives, however, ...

If you manage a database server, you are probably always in search of a tool to make that process a bit easier. If your database of choice is MySQL, you have a number of options.