MySQL plans to announce a higher-end addition next month that will allow more than one instance of its open-source database to take over if another fails. The software, MySQL Cluster, is based on ...

Oracle is adding a Vector Store and new generative AI features to its data analytics cloud service MySQL HeatWave, the company said at its annual CloudWorld conference. The new Vector Store, which is ...

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MariaDB, the community-developed branch of Oracle's open-source MySQL database, has released a second alpha of version 10.0 that uses features from the recently released MySQL 5.6 and adds a number of ...

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...

The popular open-source applications is set to get support for clustering, a feature that lets one or more databases take over if another fails. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...