Amazon’s revved-up database service offers five times the throughput of MySQL and a formidable alternative to Oracle and SQL Server The 20-year-old MySQL database is the world’s most widely used open ...

After nine months of testing, Amazon Web Services is now offering its Aurora database as a full commercial service, positioning it as a high-performance alternative to the widely used open source ...

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Many web applications have been built on an open source stack that included MySQL. Despite its limitations, MySQL managed to become the world’s most widely used open source RDBMS. What limitations, ...

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AWS has announced Parallel Query for Amazon Aurora. According to the company, this provides faster analytical queries over transactional data that can speed up queries by up to 2 orders of magnitude, ...

Up through the first decade of the 21st century, the world of relational databases wasn’t a particularly exciting one. From their arrival in the 1970s, relational databases mostly supported rather ...

This paper outlines the best practices for managing database connections, setting server connection parameters, and configuring client programs, drivers, and connectors. It’s a recommended read for ...

Oracle today is following through on its announced plans to make its MySQL HeatWave database management systems available on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud. MySQL HeatWave is a major upgrade to ...

IDC’s research highlights the significant benefits organizations achieve from using Amazon Aurora, a built-for-the-cloud, serverless, fully managed relational database service that delivers ...