Looking beyond Oracle: two high-end SQL databases you may never have …
"We are a general-purpose database designed to directly replace MySQL or SQL Server, both for OLTP and OLAP workloads," he told Computing, going on to say that its ability to handle concurrent reads and writes as well as its SQL compliance makes it an …
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Larry Ellison: Who's the DINOSAUR NOW, cloudy rivals?
There was a new MySQL (developed from one of MySQL's founders), the open-source database bought from Sun and that's been losing big customers to MariaDB. MySQL 5.7 includes the ability to provision servers via OpenStack and active replication of …
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HostGator Struggles to Bring Reseller Servers Online After Three-Day Outage
On Oct. 29, a HostGator Linux systems administrator identified the issues as being related to an operating system update. On Thursday, HostGator systems monitoring supervisor Anthony K. said that there were issues with Innodb and MySQL. This is the …
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