MySQL

Businesses Running Oracle: Get Ready for a Massive, Critical Patching Session

Oracle users, steel yourselves: a mammoth quarterly Oracle patch update landing tomorrow addresses a record 433 new security vulnerabilities, many…

MongoDB Gets a New Distribution, as Percona Grasps the Nettle

Open source database specialist Percona today announced its very own MongoDB distribution (and managed services for it); an unusual move…

How to Avoid Open Source Traps

These days it is clear that open source software is the default choice for development and infrastructure. Whenever you look…

Canonical Joins Cloud Wars: Rolls Out Fully Managed Apache Kafka, Elastic, MongoDB, MySQL, More

Canonical, the company best known for open source operating system Ubuntu (one of the most widely used OSs in the…

Database Diversity: The Dirt, the Data

Companies are using an increasingly eclectic mix of databases, a survey of 836 enterprise database users from around the world…