The technology and cross-licensing agreement between the two companies calls for MySQL to rename SAP DB and provide it at no cost under a free software, GNU (General Public License) agreement.

The Memcached caching technology, which Facebook and many other services already use. The company is looking at at least two ways of combining Memecached with its open-source MySQL database.

Meta reportedly still uses a lot of MySQL in its various technology stacks – it declined an invitation to take part in this article – and its adoption of the open source database, which began ...

The clustering technology scales up to 32 nodes and "will extend the cost-efficient scalability of MySQL to provide carrier-grade availability and high throughput in a clustered environment," said ...

The developer of one of the world's most high-profile, open-source databases, Sweden's MySQL AB, this week launched MySQL Cluster, a new open-source database clustering technology for applications ...