Customers can either download the software for free, as with other open-source products, or purchase a commercial license that includes fees to MySQL for support.

Open-source database company MySQL continues to add capabilities common to commercial database software as it tries to shake up the multibillion-dollar market. MySQL on Monday introduced an early ...

Then open-source database company takes a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL database and another software ...

Tech war: Chinese database software vendor shrugs off sanctions risk on using open-source code from Oracle’s MySQL system ...

A list of 5 best popular Open Source, free database software, Mysql, PostgreSQl, Firebird, Berkley DB and SQlite, along with comparison.

MariaDB, the MySQL fork database management system, is throwing down the gauntlet to Oracle by forming a foundation to promote its alternative DBMS software.

Open-source databases MySQL and PostgreSQL are gaining steam, but rip-and-replace situations where MySQL and PostgreSQL replace Oracle Database, IBM DB2 or Microsoft SQL Server databases remain rare.

Here I share my top five open source tools for MySQL administrators and discuss their value in the support of day-to-day MySQL administration tasks.

More than 100 million copies of MySQL's high-performance open source database software have been downloaded and distributed and an additional 50,000 copies are downloaded daily.