MySQL has earned its huge installed base. But as Scott Sullivan of Clustrix argues, performance warning signs may indicate it's time to consider a NewSQL alternative Topics ...

Sun plunked down $1 billion this week to purchase MySQL, illustrating that open source companies can achieve impressive capital valuations, even if questions remain about their potential for ...

There are many different permutations of MySQL available; which should you be using? This whitepaper compares and contrasts the major builds, including MariaDB, Percona, and Galera. Benefits and bugs ...

LinkedIn runs a multitenant MySQL architecture. This is mainly due to having over 500 applications which are dependant on it, meaning that single tenancy would cause extremely high resource costs.

The open-source database company's new consulting packages and GUI administrative tools are designed to help with application architecture and design, performance tuning and optimization, and ...

MySQL® is a widely used, open source relational database management system (RDBMS) which is an excellent solution for many applications, including web-scale applications. However, its architecture has ...