With Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems, it also acquires MySQL, the poster child for open-source applications. (Not to mention Solaris, which Sun says is a larger Linux distribution than Red Hat.) ...

MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote its ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Traditionally, the comparison between PostgreSQL and MySQL ...