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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...