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The long awaited update is here and there’s so much to see. This makeover is more than just a shiny new coat of paint on MySQL. But don’t worry: MySQL still offers the same great database management system, except now it works even better with modern applications.

Over the years DBAs have been trying hard to keep databases humming while minimizing downtime and transaction errors. Although their achievements should not be ignored, we are now entering an age where they shouldn’t have to be so clever in dealing with a tangled web of hardware and database fragments.

Nowhere else are business decisions as hype-oriented as in IT. And while NoSQL is all well and good, MySQL is often the sensible choice in terms of operational cost and scalability, says JAX London speaker Aviran Mordo.

As MySQL nears drinking age, Peter Zaitsev, CEO of Percona looks at the state of affairs in MySQL – security, data growth, Oracle and the new database kids on the block.

Ahead of the Percona Live MySQL conference in London, Percona’s CMO Terry Erisman talked to us about the future role of MySQL in Big Data.

Clustrix CEO Mike Azevedo explains what his company is doing to make its database more appealing to e-commerce enterprises.

A comparison of the major features of the top ten SQL and NoSQL databases.

MariaDB 10 is now GA, complete with “Connect engine” for easy data wrangling from both traditional SQL databases and sharding functionalities.

With the fourth anniversary of acquisition of the platform coming up, the Father of Java has a mixed bag of views on its stewards.

The NewSQL leaders hope their latest investment will help yield more customers for their scalable, high throughput relational datastore

The NewSQL leaders hope their latest investment will help yield more customers for their scalable, high throughput relational datastore

Sick of their bloated PHP/MySQL stack, the Huffington Post developer team have migrated to a modern alternative for their editorial needs.

The high performance distributed NewSQL database has notched up its second big release since January. Will its new migration tool take a dent out of Oracle?

WSO2’s open source PaaS gets a new architecture, designed to make it easy to plug in and play.