“Open source is advancing forward at the database level as MySQL has made good progress over the last several years,” said Mark Smith, CEO of Ventana Research, an IT research and advisory firm.

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 .

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When two Boston-area organizations rolled out an interactive data visualization website last month, it represented one of the largest public uses yet for the open-source project Weave — and more ...

MySQL is the second most popular database in use, according the DB-Engines Ranking, and is a key element of the LAMP — Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP — open-source web development stack.

Open source data has a split personality. There’s the NoSQL zealot who likes to fire off tirades against the restrictive world of relational databases, then there’s the MySQL devotee who’s a ...

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 performance.

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 .