With relational databases supposedly put on deathwatch by NoSQL, MySQL should have been edging gracefully to the exit by now (or not so gracefully, like IBM’s DB2).

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.

NoSQL databases have been commonly praised for the speed at which they can serve and ingest data, when compared to the performance of traditional SQL systems such as Oracle's.

When NoSQL took off, it started to sound like a rallying call for the end of relational databases. That’s not likely to happen—and for good reason.

There isn't a revenge of SQL databases. The likes of MariaDB, Oracle, and IBM databases have to live in the harmony with MongoDB, Cassandra in an enterprise architecture. So businesses need to have ...

No relation The third consequence of the MySQL project’s to keep up with the scalability and availability demands of the current time, Sallner says, has been the proliferation of non-relational, or ...

NoSQL is a 12-year-old class of nonrelational data stores that break away from a long history of relational databases. These data stores may not require fixed table schemas, usually avoid join ...

Twitter hopes that deploying the Apache Software Foundation’s Cassandra database will improve that record further. First developed by Facebook to augment its MySQL installation, Cassandra is a ...

Choosing between schemaless NoSQL databases and strong-schema relational designs isn't an either-or decision, as this case study points out. When dealing with their big data problem, Craigslist ...

Databases are the spine of the tech industry: unsung, invisible, but critical–and beyond disastrous when they break or are deformed. This makes database people cautious. For years, only the Big ...