NitroSecurity Inc. and MySQL AB said yesterday that they will jointly develop a storage engine for the open-source MySQL database that is optimized for very large high-performance databases.

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 ...

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 ...

Any lingering doubts about MySQLs ability to cook up its own darn storage engines in the wake of Oracles having bought two out from under it are now deader than doorknobs. To wit: MySQL opened its ...

The open-source database vendor will also be showcasing database engines from third parties, Zach Urlocker, vice president of marketing at MySQL, said Thursday. The new transaction database was ...

Open-source database maker MySQL AB will soon release the alpha version of its Falcon storage engine, designed for high-volume Web server environments, a company executive said Wednesday.

Deep Engine brings as much as a twofold performance increase to MySQL queries. Several technologies combine to make that possible, including multiple threads, faster decompression and predictive ...

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 ...

Cloud SQL, based on the open-source MySQL database, was announced on Google's App Engine Blog yesterday, and is being rolled out to selected developers in a limited trial—for free. Up until now ...

MyRocks, which integrates RocksDB as a MySQL storage engine, is optimized for modern hardware. When testing of the experimental combination of Percona Server and MyRocks is complete, the product ...