Engineering teams from Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter have begun work on WebScaleSQL, an open source project designed ... benefited from code changes made by the MySQL community.” ...

Since the start of Oracle's ownership of the database, speculation has regularly surfaced about the company's intentions for the project ... HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP — open-source web development ...

Developers behind the MySQL database announced plans this week to stop using and replace terms like master, slave, blacklist, and whitelist in the database's source code and documentation.

Driven by preference for open source software 'without bifurcated code bases ... breakaway projects as they do adherents. For some time now, Wikipedia has been using a variant of MySQL 5.1 ...