Virgin Mobile's decision to base its SMS database on mySQL is an important milestone for the GPL database. This was not Virgin's first entry into open source. Virgin Mobile also runs Red Hat. Virgin ...

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) creates a MySQL database server in the cloud. The notion of “database as a service” is already a reality, thanks to products like FathomDB. Amazon itself ...

Structured Query Language (SQL) is the language used for relational databases. Many database platforms use SQL, but they each have some variations in syntax. Microsoft SQL and MySQL are two of the ...

MySQL 5.1 was released by Sun Microsystems in April, but I decided to test it out this month. I downloaded the Windows version of this open source database management app and gave it a spin. The setup ...

The developer of one of the world’s most high-profile, open-source databases, Sweden’s MySQL AB, this week launched MySQL Cluster, a new open-source database clustering technology for applications ...