Let's take a look at Oracle's love and hate relationship with open source software Opinion All businesses use FOSS now, but Big Red never been entirely comfortable with it Software14 Jun 2024 | 11
Early MySQL engineer questions whether Oracle is unintentionally killing off the open source database Preference for proprietary features restricting open source MySQL adoption, says Peter Zaitsev Databases11 Jun 2024 | 47
Grafana Labs updates observability line-up with query-less visualization CTO Tom Wilkie gives an optimistic take on AI without climbing on the bandwagon Applications09 Apr 2024 |
Google advances with vector search in MySQL, leapfrogging Oracle in LLM support Meanwhile, only 22% of orgs are looking at GenAI strategy for databases Databases04 Mar 2024 | 2
MariaDB receives offer to go private more than year after disastrous IPO $37.3M bid significantly down from SPAC flotation valued at $672M Databases20 Feb 2024 | 7
What's worse than paying an extortion bot that auto-pwned your database? Paying one that lied to you and only saved the first 20 rows of each table Research17 Jan 2024 | 17
MariaDB Foundation CEO claims 'sanity' has returned to MariaDB plc Exclusive Kaj Arnö mulls cash crisis, de-listing threat, job cuts, and strategy rewrite at MySQL fork vendor Databases01 Nov 2023 | 21
Analysts scratch heads over MariaDB's decision to ditch DBaaS crown jewels 'Their future is murky at the moment' Databases19 Oct 2023 | 5
MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure, bags $26.5M loan to cushion fall Strategic DBaaS and distributed back end jettisoned after years of promotion Databases13 Oct 2023 | 12
There are lots of ways to put a database in the cloud – here's what to consider Feature Choosing the right one for you means understanding the trade-off, says MySQL expert Peter Zaitsev Cloud Infrastructure Week15 Sep 2023 | 3
Wordpress sells 100-year domain, hosting plan for $38K This assumes MySQL, PHP, the web – and humanity – will be around that long Software28 Aug 2023 | 53
MySQL Heatwave dives into object storage data lakes Oracle joins the analytics anywhere bandwagon, promises future access to AWS S3 SaaS20 Jul 2023 | 2
MariaDB sent dollar dip warning from NYSE No immediate risk of delisting, but company intends to claw its way back Databases05 Jul 2023 | 7
CockroachDB hits Azure at last after five-year mission Interview The database had to be architected from ground up, former GIMP dev Spencer Kimball tell us Databases09 Jun 2023 | 2
MariaDB CEO: People who want things free also want to have very nice vacations Former MySQL fork launches attack on hyperscaler database services with support for multiple front ends Databases16 May 2023 | 44
If you don't brush and floss, you're gonna get an abscess – same with MySQL updates Database hygiene matters, says Percona expert Databases11 May 2023 | 4
Google previews streaming connector for BigQuery All your data on one platform, opines the Chocolate Factory Databases16 Sep 2022 | 2
Open source databases: What are they and why do they matter? Feature We trawled through the licensing terms and spoke to the vendors so you don't have to Databases05 Sep 2022 | 47
Ant Group’s in-house DB set for global release, including Raspberry Pi edition OceanBase 4.0 is derived from tech behind Alipay and is MySQL compatible Databases16 Aug 2022 | 7
We have bigger targets than beating Oracle, say open source DB pioneers Advocates for MySQL and PostgreSQL see broader future for movement they helped create Databases25 May 2022 | 12
Percona launches management system aimed at open-source databases Percona Live PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL tools for overly busy DBAs, less experienced devs Databases17 May 2022 |
Oracle adds autoML to its MySQL HeatWave service As with analytics, so with ML – we're keeping everything in the box, says Big Red SaaS29 Mar 2022 | 1
PlanetScale offers undo button to reverse schema migration without losing data Vitess-based database splits system for 30 minutes allowing users to right regrettable changes Databases24 Mar 2022 | 3