What if you were a racecar driver and could swap engines with the flip of a switch instead of having to make a trip to the garage? The MySQL database does something like this for developers ...

on April 24 with a veritable gusher of storage engine goodness. First off, MySQL announced that it is opening up its pluggable database storage engine API and encouraging third-party companies and ...

In the real world, database performance ultimately comes down to transaction processing speed. Here, Deep Engine’s use of machine learning heuristics brings self-tuning capabilities to MySQL ...

The upshot of the new Deep Engine, which has been under development for nearly five years and which can be plugged into MySQL databases and soon other relational databases and various datastores, is ...

MySQL AB plans to wean itself from dependence on erstwhile rival Oracle Corp. by building a data storage engine to work with its open-source database and will encourage other firms to create ...

SEE: A fast and furious guide to MySQL database engines Please note, that I will refer to MySQL with the idea that everything will work for both MySQL and MariaDB. Typically, during the ...

While Snowflake and Databricks appear to be placing their bets on Postgres, TiDB CTO Ed Huang believes it is MySQL that will ...

Database tools provider Tokutek has updated its MySQL storage engine to support live updating of schemas, the company announced Wednesday. Taking a database offline to update the schema can be too ...