Percona continues to nip at Oracle's heels, releasing a free version of the open-source MySQL 5.6 database with advanced features similar to ones in Oracle's paid enterprise edition.

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.

MySQL Autopilot uses advanced machine learning techniques to accelerate HeatWave query performance and scalability in Oracle Cloud’s MySQL Database Service. Credit: PublicDomainPictures ...