Experts cite a plethora of reasons why the deal doesn’t create a database monopoly. For one, MySQL, despite its wild popularity, won’t add much to Oracle’s revenues.

Oracle is finally making it easier for developers to test-drive its industry-leading database software. Oracle (ORCL 3.35%) has been in the database business for more than 40 years.

MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote ...

3] DBgate Next, DBgate. It is another free open-source database that offers support for both SQL and NoSQL databases. This includes MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, SQLite, PostgreSQL, and more.