A looming deadline following a dispute between two prominent open source developers has forced database vendor MySQL to consider a change to the way it develops its software, and will also force ...

Firebird and MySQL are almost neck-and-neck as they vie to be the most widely deployed open source database product, according to a survey released on Thursday.

Engineering teams from Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter have begun work on WebScaleSQL, an open source project designed to address the challenges of running MySQL at Web scale.