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

Oracle MySQL Community Manager Frederic Descamps has promised a "decisive new approach" to MySQL in response to concerns raised by the open-source community.

Across the advertising and media industry, data is growing faster than teams can keep up. Campaigns span continents, privacy rules shift constantly, and clients expect real-time results. But behind ...

As organizations embrace hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, a hidden cost has quietly become one of the biggest drains on IT budgets. Cloud egress fees—the charges for moving data out of cloud ...

Are you worried about missing out on running workloads on older versions of MySQL after the community ends official support? Well, there’s finally some good news for you. Microsoft today announced a ...

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Metadata management has always been the focus of distributed file systems research. Metadata replication exhibits a comparative advantage in maintaining locality and balancing system load. However, ...

Oracle Corp. and Google LLC’s cloud unit today announced an expanded partnership with broader regional coverage, additional services aimed at disaster recovery and a low-cost entry offering for ...