MongoDB and MySQL are the leading open source NoSQL and relational databases, respectively. Which is best for your application?

Schema design, indexes, queries, configs, I/O... what could go wrong? Follow these 10 essential tips to keep your MySQL servers humming.

Structured Query Language (SQL) is the language used for relational databases. Many database platforms use SQL, but they each… ...

PlanetScale today took the wraps off its new database as a service based on Vitess, the horizontally distributed branch of MySQL that was developed at YouTube. Folks who have struggled with eventual ...

Oracle's recent release of MySQL 8.0 adds NoSQL features that appeal to the next generation of cloud-native developers.

Fauna, the distributed document-relational database delivered as a cloud API, today announced a new declarative schema and a suite of DevOps tooling a ...

Database tools provider Tokutek has updated its MySQL storage engine to support live updating of schemas, the company announced Wednesday. Taking a database offline to update the schema can be too ...

Facebook has joined a number of other Internet services heavyweights, such as Google and LinkedIn, to better equip the MySQL relational database management system for large- scale work. The new ...

Another advantage that NoSQL provides is that it does not conform to schemas while relational databases do conform to schemas. With a relational database, you must define a schema before adding ...

MySQL holds over 44% of the relational database market. MariaDB is one of the most popular community-developed open source relational databases.