Oracle publishes many benchmarks comparing MySQL HeatWave against its closest competitors. There’s no room to go into those benchmarks in-depth here, but I do want to highlight a few.

MySQL is the second most popular database in use, according the DB-Engines Ranking, and is a key element of the LAMP — Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP — open-source web development stack.

Oracle is adding new machine learning features to its data analytics cloud service MySQL HeatWave. MySQL HeatWave combines OLAP (online analytical processing), OLTP (online transaction processing ...

Oracle probably didn't understand MySQL well enough to want to buy the open-source start-up, now part of Sun. Like a knife and screwdriver, their products are complementary.

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.

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.

That’s where most of the growth is. Modern companies are designing their servers with this Web 2.0 stack from the beginning. MySQL, for example, counts Facebook, Google and Yahoo as its customers.

Although Oracle's acquisition of Sun does represent a massive stroke of consolidation for the database market, it's hard to believe that Oracle could truly kill off MySQL even if it really wanted to.

Linux distributors have been moving from Oracle's MySQL to its popular fork, MariaDB - and now Google is also moving to MariaDB. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Sept ...