Oracle’s own planned NoSQL access for future editions of MySQL would draw heavily from HandlerSocket, though it would stick more closely to the Memecached API, Ulin said.

While NoSQL may be getting all the buzz, in many cases an old fashioned relational database, such as MySQL, may work just as well if not better. That was the message from a number of MySQL users ...

With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Cassandra.

Oracle’s Tomas Ulin said: “MySQL 5.6 Release Candidate received great feedback from the community and helped us to efficiently mature the technology to announce general availability.

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Oracle this week announced the general availability of MySQL 5.6. The latest release of the open source relational database management system (RDBMS) takes on a growing field of NoSQL competitors, ...

In an interview in May with the IDG News Service, Tomas Ulin, Oracle vice president of MySQL engineering, described a project to bring the NoSQL-like speed of access to SQL-based MySQL.

While NoSQL may be getting all the buzz, in many cases an old fashioned relational database, such as MySQL, may work just as well if not better. That was the message from a number of MySQL users who ...

In an interview in May with the IDG News Service, Tomas Ulin, Oracle vice president of MySQL engineering, described a project to bring the NoSQL-like speed of access to SQL-based MySQL.

So we felt that would be a good way to provide NoSQL access,” Ulin said. Oracle’s thinking is that the Memecached interface can serve as an alternative access point for MySQL itself.