It's time to stop sniping at Oracle's handling of MySQL. Far from declining over the past few years, the open-source database has actually improved under Oracle's stewardship, according to Percona ...

Oracle’s advances in the MySQL space with HeatWave raise an important question: Why hasn’t someone else done this? After all, MySQL is hardly new, with the first version appearing in 1995.

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