With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL is designed to let users ...

Two years later, MySQL was acquired for $1bn by Sun Microsystems, which in turn was bought by Oracle for $7.4bn in 2010. By then, some of the database's original creators had already left to ...

Compared to database heavyweight Oracle, MySQL is very small--it brought in a little less than $40 million of revenue in 2005--but it is the most popular open-source database with developers, ...

Oracle reaped $8.34 billion from database sales in 2007, giving it 37.6 percent of the $22.2 billion global market, according to IDC. The 2008 figures are not yet available, IDC said.

Oracle said it's made MySQL 70 times faster than previous versions. The new MySQL Cluster 7.2 database can now do 1.05 billion reads per minute, according to Oracle's benchmarks.

MySQL logo . SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. Oracle is synonymous with database. In fact, the company has about six different databases to solve whatever data management problem you have.

Oracle’s handling of MySQL has been closely watched by community members who use and help develop the database, which it acquired through the purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010.

Since Oracle launched its MySQL HeatWave service in December 2020, it has continuously driven differentiation in the database-as-a-service market. While competing against some of the biggest names ...

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 18, 2022 — Oracle today announced MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse, enabling customers to process and query hundreds of terabytes of data in object store in a variety of file formats, such as ...

Oracle today is following through on its announced plans to make its MySQL HeatWave database management systems available on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud.. MySQL HeatWave is a major upgrade ...

Designed as part of Oracle’s MySQL HeatWave database platform, Lakehouse was accompanied by claims from the company that the offering would deliver faster performance than competing products.