With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL, which uses SQL ...

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 ...

When MySQL 5.5 switched its underlying storage engine MyISAM to another, InnoDB, it drew questions and created some confusion about the foundation of this database. Certainly, the choice of a storage ...

Kevin Xu is general manager of global strategy and operations at PingCAP. TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, MySQL-compatible distributed database that handles hybrid transactional and analytical ...

One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB admin, not ...

Ticketmaster began as a Microsoft shop, it's now using MySQL on premise and is headed for MySQL in the cloud. All with the aim of improving online customer experience. If you’ve ever been to a music, ...