The MySQL Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter engineering teams have joined forces to create their own version of MySQL, WebScaleSQL for their monster-sized databases.

Over the past few years, the open source relational database management systems MySQL and MariaDB have undergone tremendous changes: new and improved features, fixes for long-standing problems ...

Vulnerabilities that could bring down online databases all over the internet have been discovered over the weekend, prompting developers to scramble to respond.

MySQL has published its first “end of life” timetable for its open-source database and will no longer provide free updates for some older versions of the product starting next month, it said ...

Both Oracle's MySQL and PostgreSQL have made recent announcements that provide evidence as to why so many businesses are now using open source databases for their production systems. Oracle's MySQL ...

Whether you're running a LAMP stack on Ubuntu or CentOS, you need to back up your MySQL databases. Learn how to do this with the help of the mysqldump command.

Looking to use an open source general-purpose database? This extensive comparison of MySQL vs. PostgreSQL explores the strengths and weaknesses of each.