The relative inability of MySQL database technology to deal with large data sets is pushing companies to consider so-called NoSQL alternatives such as Hadoop when they need to analyze massive amounts ...

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Craigslist handles a boatload of postings every day, but as big as that load is, their daily incoming traffic is not enough to sink a relational vessel. However, managing their archive of postings was ...

MySQL, the open source relational database that came to Oracle through the Sun Microsystems acquisition, originated as a relatively simple relational database that was known for one task: transaction ...

Percona, a provider of open source database support services and Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), has warned that more than half its MySQL instances remain on MySQL 8.0, support for which ends on April ...

With more than 2 billion games distributed to date, Big Fish, the world's largest producer of casual games, needed a solution that would enable it to maintain its leadership in the casual game sector.

According to market research from International Data Corporation (IDC), Microsoft's SQL Server product is slowly catching up to Oracle and IBM in relational database management system (RDBMS) market ...