MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse MySQL HeatWave, if you’re not familiar, is Oracle’s fully managed MySQL database service powered by the company’s unique HeatWave in-memory query accelerator technology.

Oracle first previewed the MySQL Heatwave Lakehouse service in October 2022 and is now making the service generally available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as well as Microsoft Azure.

Oracle says this performance results from the scale-out architecture of MySQL HeatWave that enables massive parallelism to provision the cluster, load data, and process queries with up to 512 nodes.

Oracle is releasing MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse, enabling customers to query data in object storage as fast as querying data inside the database. MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse supports a variety of object ...

For him, Oracle’s ownership of MySQL is a specific cause for caution. MySQL users start looking at alternatives A key issue is that Oracle is a main competitor to MySQL, notes Timothy Dion, CTO ...

MySQL was first released in 1995, while the community-developed fork, MariaDB, emerged in 2009 as a reaction to Oracle's acquisition of the open-source technology.

Oracle Corp.’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. will bring together the world’s most valuable relational database with the most popular open source one: MySQL.