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 ...

Taking aim at competitors including Amazon Aurora and Snowflake, Oracle has enhanced the MySQL HeatWave in-memory query accelerator in the Oracle Cloud’s MySQL Database Service by leveraging advanced ...

When Oracle Corp. acquired the rights to MySQL through its purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. in 2010, the company had a decision to make. Should it pursue a set of partnerships to retool the database ...

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In a Facebook engineering blog, Steaphan Greene, a Facebook software engineer, announced the creation of a new MySQL branch: WebScaleSQL. This is a version of Oracle's MySQL for gigantic database ...

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