But he finds a side-by-side comparison of MySQL to the lite databases to be relevant because theyre both aimed for low-budget situations.

MongoDB is governed by GNU Affero General Public License 3.0, whereas Cassandra is subject to Apache License 2.0. Both databases have been around for about a decade. Cassandra debuted in 2008 and ...

After some of the results had been presented to the public, some observers said MongoDB should not be compared to other NoSQL databases because it is more targeted at working with memory directly ...

About MySQL and Postgres MySQL was originally open source, but it was bought and taken partially commercial by Oracle in 2010. To ensure it remained a free and independent open source project, the ...

Most Popular Multiple Database Type Combinations (source: ScaleGrid) Most Popular Multiple Database Type Combinations: "The clear winner with over 1/3 of multiple database type use is the combination ...

“MongoDB is the fifth most popular database, and still one-third as widely used as Oracle and MySQL!” Given how reluctant enterprises are to switch out battle-tested databases, even that level ...

Software developers don't need to be told that the 'mongo' in MongoDB means humongous (and the DB is database), it's just one of those things that's obvious. The company itself is an open source ...

Elsewhere in the field of open-source databases, the keepers behind Drizzle have released the first production-ready version of that database, Drizzle 7, otherwise known as 2011.03.13 GA.

“Optimizing database performance requires information and visibility into query performance,” said Peter Zaitsev, Co-founder and CEO of Percona. “The free and open source Percona Monitoring and ...