Oracle has updated its MySQL Cluster software to make it more appealing to large Web service providers, among other users of large-volume distributed databases.

According to Oracle, which acquired MySQL when it bought Sun Microsystems for $7.4bn in 2010, MySQL Cluster 7.4 has faster in-memory processing and can run analytics workloads more efficiently.

Ken Jacobs, Oracle's vice president of product strategy, says MySQL Cluster 'will not change the competitive landscape' and that the company is trying to address shortcomings by acquiring a third ...

Oracle on Wednesday announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.2, a high-availability, high-redundancy version of the open source MySQL database adapted for distributed computing ...

Demonstrating its investment in MySQL development, Oracle today announced the latest release of MySQL Cluster.

Oracle has announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.2 as a GPL download, and claims to have achieved a benchmark of 1 billion queries per minute and 110 million updates per minute on ...

I'm currently trying to develop a SQL cluster for our production databases. One of my goals is to make it possible to load balance the databases without needing to reconfigure the client. Also it ...

Microsoft has gone public with a production customer using its Distributed Partition Views technology in SQL Server 2000.