MySQL developers have used Microsoft source code in version 4.1 of the open-source database, which is due for final release in late October.

The open-source community needs to figure out a consistent response to code contributions. Those who give much get little credit, while those who give little get a lot of credit. Does this sound ...

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two popular open-source database products. The addition of stored procedures to MySQL 5.0 is designed to make the database more attractive to corporate customers.

YouTube engineers are developing a set of software, called Vitess, that will help open-source MySQL databases work more efficiently in very large-scale production environments. To write the code ...

To properly evaluate the strengths of PostgreSQL and MySQL, the two leading open-source databases, one must look at the history and pedigree of each, and their feature functionality and ...