Percona will launch its new Percona Server 5.6 at 8AM tomorrow morning which will feature many of the features of MySQL enterprise edition for free.

Sun is to begin offering certain MySQL features, beginning with some backup functions, solely to its enterprise subscription customers, the company announced this week. The plan is a shift from ...

Sun officials confirmed that new online backup features will be offered to paying MySQL Enterprise users only — a plan that sparked criticism from open-source advocates.

Some of the new features in MariaDB mirror those added in Oracle’s commercial releases of MySQL Enterprise. For example, MariaDB 5.5 includes a plug-in to allow client authentication through ...

He also points to benchmarks that show how fast MySQL is compared to other DBMSs. So although MySQL lacks features some people would call requirements for a true enterprise RDBMS, the author ...

With features such as a monitoring and advisory service, MySQL Enterprise will “supercharge” database administrators (DBAs), Chief Executive Officer Marten Mickos said. “It provides a heat chart of ...

Oracle announces the latest batch of updates to HeatWave that bring new capabilities for enterprise machine learning, AI-driven automation, and multi-cloud support.

MySQL AB has added features already available from its database rivals, hoping to gain the eye of corporate IT managers. Analysts say enterprise success is still a ways off.

MySQL AB has introduced new features in Version 5 of its namesake open-source database to make it a serious option for enterprises.

Oracle is making a fresh run at Microsoft’s SQL Server, claiming on Tuesday that its open-source MySQL database offers up to 90 percent cost savings over SQL Server along with blazing ...