Sun's acquisition of MySQL did not go smoothly; most of the MySQL leaders (both commercial and project) have left Sun and the people who are left are sitting with their CV and ready to press send.

Those features could not be included in the MySQL project," he said in an emailed statement. "It might be said that Oracle concentrates most new innovations on HeatWave rather than MySQL Community ...

which is owns the copyright to the codebase. However, the MySQL project’s source code is freely available under terms of the GNU General Public License. Sun said MySQL will be integrated into ...

While it is an open source project and the community is free to continue development of a fork, it will have to be under a different name, and names matter. MySQL is a reputed database server and ...

The Foundation also provides infrastructure for the MariaDB project and the user and developer communities." According to Widenius, MariaDB is faster, more secure and has more features than MySQL.

Engineering teams from Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter have begun work on WebScaleSQL, an open source project designed to address the challenges of running MySQL at Web scale. Engineering ...

The MySQL development project has made its source code available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements. MySQL was owned and ...

BitKeeper is used by more than 100 open source projects including MySQL, the Xen virtual machine monitor, and the ReiserFS journaling filesystem. Originally developed to as a way to make Linux ...