Oracle said it's made MySQL 70 times faster than previous versions. The new MySQL Cluster 7.2 database can now do 1.05 billion reads per minute, according to Oracle's benchmarks.

We tested six popular free or open source relational database management systems (RDBMS): Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle’s MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby, and Firebird SQL.

And to capture the complete details of activity audits from the world’s most widely used relational database management system, McAfee releases a free downloadable audit plug-in for MySQL.

MySQL charges up to $4,995 per server per year for this edition of the free software database. That's the same price Oracle charges for a "Standard Edition One" 2-CPU license, except that the ...

The MySQL Database can be used to create a free online or offline mailing list. A basic mailing list database contains two tables. One table contains the name, email address, street address and ...

MySQL and others are starting to eat into the $8.8 billion market for database software dominated by Oracle, International Business Machines Corp. and Microsoft Corp., users said.

MySQL has published its first “end of life” timetable for its open-source database and will no longer provide free updates for some older versions of the product starting next month, it said ...

MySQL allows you to specify database engines at the table level, so they are sometimes referred to as table formats. The following sample code shows how to create tables that use the MyISAM, ISAM ...

MySQL is one of the most popular open source databases. It is included as part of a variety of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stacks, and large organizations such as Wikipedia, Twitter and ...

For answers, we reviewed six popular free or open source database products: Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle’s MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby, and Firebird SQL.