A source-code analysis of the MySQL database, a popular open-source program at the heart of many Web sites, revealed few bugs compared with the number found in commercial code, testing company ...

The MySQL community is mostly neutral or positive about the open-source database's prospects under Oracle's stewardship, according to a newly released study.

MySQL use is set to fall if Oracle manages to buy Sun, according to a new study.

Some especially significant implications for Web developers can be found in a new study by research firm Ovum that measured the sentiment about Big Data vendors in 2012 Twitter posts.

The case study, the full text of which can be found here, concluded that MapReduce would beat out MySQL and Hive for datasets larger than one gigabyte. As Hollingsworth wrote, “The results show that ...

Social networking site Twitter told delegates at Oracle's MySQL Connect event in San Francisco today that it uses MySQL because it understands the system, and it's capable of processing the high ...

Usage of the open-source MySQL database is set to decline if Oracle succeeds in buying the software's owner, Sun Microsystems, according to new data released by analyst firm The 451 Group on Friday.