Oracle has updated its MySQL Cluster software to make it more appealing to large Web service providers, among other users of large-volume distributed databases.

According to Oracle, which acquired MySQL when it bought Sun Microsystems for $7.4bn in 2010, MySQL Cluster 7.4 has faster in-memory processing and can run analytics workloads more efficiently.

Demonstrating its investment in MySQL development, Oracle today announced the latest release of MySQL Cluster.

Ken Jacobs, Oracle's vice president of product strategy, says MySQL Cluster 'will not change the competitive landscape' and that the company is trying to address shortcomings by acquiring a third ...

So we're looking at doing a SQL 2014 cluster to replace all of our standalone SQL boxes everywhere, mathematically it makes sense, but I'm running into issues with our environment and my googling ...

Oracle has announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.2 as a GPL download, and claims to have achieved a benchmark of 1 billion queries per minute and 110 million updates per minute on ...

Dealing with MySQL across multiple geographies is complex at best. It is not reasonable to set up an NDB cluster with nodes in separate data centers. Even if there is dedicated bandwidth between the ...

Microsoft has gone public with a production customer using its Distributed Partition Views technology in SQL Server 2000.