Despite being the most popular open-source database management system (DBMS), Oracle's MySQL has been sinking into trouble. Major Linux distributions like Red Hat and SUSE, are switching it out for ...

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 ...

Over the past few years, the open source relational database management systems MySQL and MariaDB have undergone tremendous changes: new and improved features, fixes for long-standing problems, better ...

News that is likely to make noise where Oracle lives has come to light as Google decides to go with MariaDB as a replacement for MySQL. Although MySQL is still the most popular database system with ...

You may have heard about the upstart MySQL database MariaDB, a branch of MySQL created in the wake of Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems. You’ll find many great reasons to consider MariaDB, not ...

Red Hat will switch the default database in its enterprise distribution, RHEL, from MySQL to MariaDB, when version 7 is released. According to news from the Red Hat summit which concludes in Boston on ...

For developers familiar with MySQL, you've probably heard that MariaDB is the next generation of the database engine. MySQL has long been the traditional database in Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP ...

MariaDB, the company behind the eponymous MySQL drop-in replacement database, today announced that it has acquired Clustrix, which itself is a MySQL drop-in replacement database, but with a focus on ...

NEW YORK—On the first day of its Connect developer conference, Microsoft announced that it is joining the MariaDB Foundation, the group that oversees the development of the MariaDB database. Connect ...

Recently while reviewing MySQL client tools, I discovered a Linux MySQL server on my local network refusing all incoming connections. Because I run Slackware, I suspected that the -skip-networking ...