If you’ve used Linux for a long time, you know that we are spoiled these days. Getting a new piece of hardware back in the day was often a horrible affair, requiring custom kernels and lots ...

Linux is about to get some big performance gains soon from a native feature it already has. Interestingly, Microsoft borrowed ...

The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB.

Oracle MySQL Community Manager Frederic Descamps has promised a "decisive new approach" to MySQL in response to concerns raised by the open-source community.

A group of influential users and developers of MySQL have invited Oracle to join their plans to create an independent foundation to guide the future development of the popular open source database, ...

Oracle is the sole proprietor of MySQL, but its community has critiqued its governance. Without improvements, the DBMS risks irrelevance.

Oracle AI Database 26ai Enterprise Edition for Linux x86-64 is now generally available for on-premises platforms as part of Oracle’s January 2026 quarterly Release Update (version 23.26.1). According ...

Oracle is taking steps to "repair" its relationship with the MySQL community, according to sources, by moving "commercial-only" features into the database application's Community Edition and ...

kubernetes-s3-mysql-backup is a container image based on Alpine Linux. This container is designed to run in Kubernetes as a cronjob to perform automatic backups of MySQL databases to Amazon S3. It was ...