The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB.

The popular open-source applications is set to get support for clustering, a feature that lets one or more databases take over if another fails. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

MySQL is a popular, open-source Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) designed to run on almost any hardware. Its popularity can be attributed to its ease of use as well as its speed, ...

Oracle is synonymous with database. In fact, the company has about six different databases to solve whatever data management problem you have. Are you still running OpenVMS? Oracle will hook you up ...

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 ...