John Engates is the CTO of Rackspace Hosting and an evangelist for the open cloud. Open source data has a split personality. There’s the NoSQL zealot who likes to fire off tirades against the ...

With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Cassandra. “We’re in constant dialogue with our ...

Oracle has released an upgrade to its open-source database MySQL, with the purpose of making it work better with Oracle’s database technologies and NoSQL databases. MySQL 5.7 continues a convergence ...

While NoSQL may be getting all the buzz, in many cases an old fashioned relational database, such as MySQL, may work just as well if not better. That was the message from a number of MySQL users who ...